King James Version
Numbers 5:2 in the King James Version says “Command the children of Israel, that they put out of the camp every leper, and every one that hath an issue, and whosoev...” — study this verse from Numbers chapter 5 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“Command the children of Israel, that they put out of the camp every leper, and every one that hath an issue, and whosoever is defiled by the dead:”
Numbers 5:2 · KJV
And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
Command the children of Israel, that they put out of the camp every leper, and every one that hath an issue, and whosoever is defiled by the dead:
Both male and female shall ye put out, without the camp shall ye put them; that they defile not their camps, in the midst whereof I dwell.
And the children of Israel did so, and put them out without the camp: as the LORD spake unto Moses, so did the children of Israel.
KJV Study — Public Domain
properly, self (but generally used to point out more definitely the object of a verb or preposition, even or namely)
“the children”
H1121a 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”
H3478he will rule as god; jisral, a symbolical name of jacob; also (typically) of his posterity
“that they put out”
H7971to send away, for, or out (in a great variety of applications)
“of the camp”
H4264an encampment (of travellers or troops); hence, an army, whether literal (of soldiers) or figurative (of dancers, angels, cattle, locusts, stars; or e
properly, the whole; hence, all, any or every (in the singular only, but often in a plural sense)
“every leper”
H6879to scourge, i.e., (intransitive and figurative) to be stricken with leprosy
properly, the whole; hence, all, any or every (in the singular only, but often in a plural sense)
“and every one that hath an issue”
H2100to flow freely (as water), i.e., (specifically) to have a (sexual) flux; figuratively, to waste away; also to overflow
properly, the whole; hence, all, any or every (in the singular only, but often in a plural sense)
“by the dead”
H5315properly, a breathing creature, i.e., animal of (abstractly) vitality; used very widely in a literal, accommodated or figurative sense (bodily or ment
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