2 Chronicles 12:3

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

with twelve hundred chariots, and threescore thousand horsemen. And the people were without number that came with him out of Egypt: the Lubim, the Sukkiim, and the Ethiopians.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

בְּאֶ֤לֶף וּמָאתַ֙יִם֙ רֶ֔כֶב וּבְשִׁשִּׁ֥ים אֶ֖לֶף פָּרָשִׁ֑ים וְאֵ֣ין מִסְפָּ֗ר לָעָ֞ם אֲשֶׁר־בָּ֤אוּ עִמּוֹ֙ מִמִּצְרַ֔יִם לוּבִ֥ים סֻכִּיִּ֖ים וְכוּשִֽׁים׃

Transliteration

With-'elef and-mā'ṯayim reḵeḇ and-with-sixty 'elef pārāšîm and-'ên mispār to-the-people who-bā'û with-him from-miṣrayim: lûḇîm, sukkiyyîm, and-kûšîm

Grammar Details

*'elef*: noun masculine singular - thousand
*mā'ṯayim*: cardinal number dual - two hundred
*reḵeḇ*: noun masculine singular - chariots/chariotry
*šiššîm*: cardinal number - sixty
*pārāšîm*: noun masculine plural - horsemen/cavalry
*'ên*: particle of negation - there was no
*mispār*: noun masculine singular - number/count
*lā-'ām*: preposition + definite article + masculine singular noun - to/for the people
*'ăšer*: relative particle - who/which
*bā'û*: qal perfect 3rd common plural - they came
*'immô*: preposition + 3rd masculine singular suffix - with him
*mi-miṣrayim*: preposition + proper noun - from Egypt
*lûḇîm*: proper noun plural - Libyans
*sukkiyyîm*: proper noun plural - Sukkites
*kûšîm*: proper noun plural - Cushites/Ethiopians

Word Meanings

*reḵeḇ*: chariots/chariotry
*pārāšîm*: horsemen/cavalry
*'ên mispār*: without number/innumerable
*lûḇîm*: Libyans/Lubim
*sukkiyyîm*: Sukkites/Troglodytes
*kûšîm*: Cushites/Ethiopians

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Referenced Verses

2 Chr 16:8 : 8 Were not the Ethiopians and the Lubim a huge host, with chariots and horsemen exceeding many? yet, because thou didst rely on Jehovah, he delivered them into thy hand.
Nah 3:9 : 9 Ethiopia and Egypt were her strength, and it was infinite; Put and Lubim were thy helpers.
Dan 11:43 : 43 But he shall have power over the treasures of gold and of silver, and over all the precious things of Egypt; and the Libyans and the Ethiopians shall be at his steps.
Rev 9:16 : 16 And the number of the armies of the horsemen was twice ten thousand times ten thousand: {G2532} I heard the number of them.
Isa 43:3 : 3 For I am Jehovah thy God, the Holy One of Israel, thy Saviour; I have given Egypt as thy ransom, Ethiopia and Seba in thy stead.
Ezek 30:5 : 5 Ethiopia, and Put, and Lud, and all the mingled people, and Cub, and the children of the land that is in league, shall fall with them by the sword.
Gen 10:6-8 : 6 And the sons of Ham: Cush, and Mizraim, and Put, and Canaan. 7 And the sons of Cush: Seba, and Havilah, and Sabtah, and Raamah, and Sabteca; and the sons of Raamah: Sheba, and Dedan. 8 And Cush begat Nimrod: he began to be a mighty one in the earth.
Judg 4:13 : 13 And Sisera gathered together all his chariots, even nine hundred chariots of iron, and all the people that were with him, from Harosheth of the Nations, unto the river Kishon.
Judg 6:5 : 5 For they came up with their cattle and their tents; they came in as locusts for multitude; both they and their camels were without number: and they came into the land to destroy it.
1 Sam 13:5 : 5 And the Philistines assembled themselves together to fight with Israel, thirty thousand chariots, and six thousand horsemen, and people as the sand which is on the sea-shore {H8193} in multitude: and they came up, and encamped in Michmash, eastward of Beth-aven.
2 Sam 10:18 : 18 And the Syrians fled before Israel; and David slew of the Syrians [the men of] seven hundred chariots, and forty thousand horsemen, and smote Shobach the captain of their host, so that he died there.
2 Chr 14:9 : 9 And there came out against them Zerah the Ethiopian with an army of a thousand thousand, and three hundred chariots; and he came unto Mareshah.
2 Chr 14:12 : 12 So Jehovah smote the Ethiopians before Asa, and before Judah; and the Ethiopians fled.

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