What Does Numbers 3:45 Mean?

“Take”

to take (in the widest variety of applications)

properly, self (but generally used to point out more definitely the object of a verb or preposition, even or namely)

“and the Levites”

a levite or descendant of levi

the bottom (as depressed); only adverbially, below (often with prepositional prefix underneath), in lieu of, etc

properly, the whole; hence, all, any or every (in the singular only, but often in a plural sense)

“instead of all the firstborn”

first-born; hence, chief

“among the children”

a son (as a builder of the family name), in the widest sense (of literal and figurative relationship, including grandson, subject, nation, quality or

“of Israel”

he will rule as god; jisral, a symbolical name of jacob; also (typically) of his posterity

properly, self (but generally used to point out more definitely the object of a verb or preposition, even or namely)

“and the cattle”

properly, a dumb beast; especially any large quadruped or animal (often collective)

“and the Levites”

a levite or descendant of levi

the bottom (as depressed); only adverbially, below (often with prepositional prefix underneath), in lieu of, etc

“and the cattle”

properly, a dumb beast; especially any large quadruped or animal (often collective)

to exist, i.e., be or become, come to pass (always emphatic, and not a mere copula or auxiliary)

“and the Levites”

a levite or descendant of levi

i

“shall be mine I am the LORD”

(the) self-existent or eternal; jeho-vah, jewish national name of god