King James Version
Numbers 4:22 in the King James Version says “Take also the sum of the sons of Gershon, throughout the houses of their fathers, by their families;” — study this verse from Numbers chapter 4 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“Take also the sum of the sons of Gershon, throughout the houses of their fathers, by their families;”
Numbers 4:22 · KJV
But they shall not go in to see when the holy things are covered, lest they die.
And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
Take also the sum of the sons of Gershon, throughout the houses of their fathers, by their families;
From thirty years old and upward until fifty years old shalt thou number them; all that enter in to perform the service, to do the work in the tabernacle of the congregation. to perform: Heb. to war the warfare
This is the service of the families of the Gershonites, to serve, and for burdens: burdens: or, carriage
KJV Study — Public Domain
“Take”
H5375to lift, in a great variety of applications, literal and figurative, absolute and relative
properly, self (but generally used to point out more definitely the object of a verb or preposition, even or namely)
“also the sum”
H7218the head (as most easily shaken), whether literal or figurative (in many applications, of place, time, rank, itc.)
“of the sons”
H1121a son (as a builder of the family name), in the widest sense (of literal and figurative relationship, including grandson, subject, nation, quality or
properly, assemblage; used only adverbially also, even, yea, though; often repeated as correl. both...and
“throughout the houses”
H1004a house (in the greatest variation of applications, especially family, etc.)
“of their fathers”
H1father, in a literal and immediate, or figurative and remote application
“by their families”
H4940a family, i.e., circle of relatives; figuratively, a class (of persons), a species (of animals) or sort (of things); by extension a tribe or people
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