King James Version
Numbers 5:3 in the King James Version says “Both male and female shall ye put out, without the camp shall ye put them; that they defile not their camps, in the mids...” — study this verse from Numbers chapter 5 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“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.”
Numbers 5:3 · 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.
And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
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“Both male”
H2145properly, remembered, i.e., a male (of man or animals, as being the most noteworthy sex)
as far (or long, or much) as, whether of space (even unto) or time (during, while, until) or degree (equally with)
“shall ye put”
H7971to send away, for, or out (in a great variety of applications)
“not their camps”
H4264an encampment (of travellers or troops); hence, an army, whether literal (of soldiers) or figurative (of dancers, angels, cattle, locusts, stars; or e
“shall ye put”
H7971to send away, for, or out (in a great variety of applications)
not (the simple or abs. negation); by implication, no; often used with other particles
“them that they defile”
H2930to be foul, especially in a ceremial or moral sense (contaminated)
properly, self (but generally used to point out more definitely the object of a verb or preposition, even or namely)
“not their camps”
H4264an encampment (of travellers or troops); hence, an army, whether literal (of soldiers) or figurative (of dancers, angels, cattle, locusts, stars; or e
“whereof”
H834who, which, what, that; also (as an adverb and a conjunction) when, where, how, because, in order that, etc
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