What Does Numbers 35:15 Mean?

“both for 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

“and for the stranger”

properly, a guest; by implication, a foreigner

“and for the sojourner”

a dweller but not outlandish [h5237]; especially (as distinguished from a native citizen [active participle of h3427] and a temporary inmate [h1616] o

“among”

a bisection, i.e., (by implication) the center

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

“These six”

six (as an overplus beyond five or the fingers of the hand); as ordinal, sixth

“cities”

a city (a place guarded by waking or a watch) in the widest sense (even of a mere encampment or post)

these or those

“shall be a refuge”

an asylum (as a receptacle)

“may flee”

to flit, i.e., vanish away (subside, escape; causatively, chase, impel, deliver)

there (transferring to time) then; often thither, or thence

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

“them that every one that killeth”

to strike (lightly or severely, literally or figuratively)

“any person”

properly, a breathing creature, i.e., animal of (abstractly) vitality; used very widely in a literal, accommodated or figurative sense (bodily or ment

“unawares”

a mistake or inadvertent transgression