King James Version
Numbers 33:39 in the King James Version says “And Aaron was an hundred and twenty and three years old when he died in mount Hor.” — study this verse from Numbers chapter 33 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“And Aaron was an hundred and twenty and three years old when he died in mount Hor.”
Numbers 33:39 · KJV
And they removed from Kadesh, and pitched in mount Hor, in the edge of the land of Edom.
And Aaron the priest went up into mount Hor at the commandment of the LORD, and died there, in the fortieth year after the children of Israel were come out of the land of Egypt, in the first day of the fifth month.
And Aaron was an hundred and twenty and three years old when he died in mount Hor.
And king Arad the Canaanite, which dwelt in the south in the land of Canaan, heard of the coming of the children of Israel.
And they departed from mount Hor, and pitched in Zalmonah.
KJV Study — Public Domain
“old”
H1121a son (as a builder of the family name), in the widest sense (of literal and figurative relationship, including grandson, subject, nation, quality or
“when he died”
H4194death (natural or violent); concretely, the dead, their place or state (hades); figuratively, pestilence, ruin
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