King James Version
Numbers 32:4 in the King James Version says “Even the country which the LORD smote before the congregation of Israel, is a land for cattle, and thy servants have cat...” — study this verse from Numbers chapter 32 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“Even the country which the LORD smote before the congregation of Israel, is a land for cattle, and thy servants have cattle:”
Numbers 32:4 · KJV
The children of Gad and the children of Reuben came and spake unto Moses, and to Eleazar the priest, and unto the princes of the congregation, saying,
Ataroth, and Dibon, and Jazer, and Nimrah, and Heshbon, and Elealeh, and Shebam, and Nebo, and Beon,
Even the country which the LORD smote before the congregation of Israel, is a land for cattle, and thy servants have cattle:
Wherefore, said they, if we have found grace in thy sight, let this land be given unto thy servants for a possession, and bring us not over Jordan.
And Moses said unto the children of Gad and to the children of Reuben, Shall your brethren go to war, and shall ye sit here?
KJV Study — Public Domain
who, which, what, that; also (as an adverb and a conjunction) when, where, how, because, in order that, etc
“which the LORD”
H3068(the) self-existent or eternal; jeho-vah, jewish national name of god
“before”
H6440the face (as the part that turns); used in a great variety of applications (literally and figuratively); also (with prepositional prefix) as a preposi
“the congregation”
H5712a stated assemblage (specifically, a concourse, or generally, a family or crowd)
“of Israel”
H3478he will rule as god; jisral, a symbolical name of jacob; also (typically) of his posterity
“for cattle”
H4735something bought, i.e., property, but only live stock; abstractly, acquisition
he (she or it); only expressed when emphatic or without a verb; also (intensively) self, or (especially with the article) the same; sometimes (as demo
“for cattle”
H4735something bought, i.e., property, but only live stock; abstractly, acquisition
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