Joshua 22:14

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

and with him ten princes, one prince of a fathers' house for each of the tribes of Israel; and they were every one of them head of their fathers' houses among the thousands of Israel.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וַעֲשָׂרָ֤ה נְשִׂאִים֙ עִמּ֔וֹ נָשִׂ֨יא אֶחָ֜ד נָשִׂ֤יא אֶחָד֙ לְבֵ֣ית אָ֔ב לְכֹ֖ל מַטּ֣וֹת יִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל וְאִ֨ישׁ רֹ֧אשׁ בֵּית־אֲבוֹתָ֛ם הֵ֖מָּה לְאַלְפֵ֥י יִשְׂרָאֵֽל׃

Transliteration

wə-ʿăśārāh nəśiʾîm with him, nāśîʾ ʾeḥād nāśîʾ ʾeḥād lə-bêt ʾāb lə-kōl maṭṭôt yiśrāʾēl wə-ʾîš rōʾš bêt-ʾăbôtām hēmmāh lə-ʾalpê yiśrāʾēl

Grammar Details

*wə-ʿăśārāh*: waw-conjunctive + cardinal number, feminine - and ten
*nəśiʾîm*: noun, masculine plural - chiefs/leaders/princes
*ʿimmô*: preposition + 3rd person masculine singular suffix - with him
*nāśîʾ ʾeḥād*: noun + cardinal number - one leader/prince (repeated for emphasis)
*lə-bêt ʾāb*: preposition + construct noun + noun - for a father's house/family
*lə-kōl*: preposition + noun - for all/every
*maṭṭôt*: noun, masculine plural construct - tribes/staffs of
*yiśrāʾēl*: proper noun - Israel
*wə-ʾîš*: waw-conjunctive + noun - and each man/person
*rōʾš*: noun, masculine singular construct - head of
*bêt-ʾăbôtām*: construct noun + noun + 3rd person masculine plural suffix - house of their fathers
*hēmmāh*: 3rd person masculine plural pronoun - they
*lə-ʾalpê*: preposition + noun, masculine plural construct - for the thousands of

Word Meanings

*nəśiʾîm*: chiefs/leaders/princes/rulers
*bêt ʾāb*: father's house/family/clan
*maṭṭôt*: tribes/staffs/branches
*rōʾš*: head/chief/leader
*ʾalpê*: thousands/clans/military units

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American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

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Referenced Verses

Num 1:4 : 4 And with you there shall be a man of every tribe; every one head of his fathers' house.
Exod 18:25 : 25 And Moses chose able men out of all Israel, and made them heads over the people, rulers of thousands, rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens.

Similar Verses (AI)

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Num 1:16
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16These are they that were called of the congregation, the princes of the tribes of their fathers; they were the heads of the thousands of Israel.
Num 1:44
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44These are they that were numbered, whom Moses and Aaron numbered, and the princes of Israel, being twelve men: they were each one for his fathers' house.
Num 1:4
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4And with you there shall be a man of every tribe; every one head of his fathers' house.
Num 7:2
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2that the princes of Israel, the heads of their fathers' houses, offered. These were the princes of the tribes, these are they that were over them that were numbered:
Deut 1:15
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15So I took the heads of your tribes, wise men, and known, and made them heads over you, captains of thousands, and captains of hundreds, and captains of fifties, and captains of tens, and officers, according to your tribes.
Num 31:4-5
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4Of every tribe a thousand, throughout all the tribes of Israel, shall ye send to the war.
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Num 10:4
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4And if they blow but one, then the princes, the heads of the thousands of Israel, shall gather themselves unto thee.
1 Chr 13:1
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1 Chr 5:24
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24And these were the heads of their fathers' houses: even Epher, and Ishi, and Eliel, and Azriel, and Jeremiah, and Hodaviah, and Jahdiel, mighty men of valor, famous men, heads of their fathers' houses.
1 Chr 28:1
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1And David assembled all the princes of Israel, the princes of the tribes, and the captains of the companies that served the king by course, and the captains of thousands, and the captains of hundreds, and the rulers over all the substance and possessions of the king and of his sons, with the officers, and the mighty men, even all the mighty men of valor, unto Jerusalem.
Judg 20:10
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1 Chr 27:22
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1 Chr 26:32
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32And his brethren, men of valor, were two thousand and seven hundred, heads of fathers' [houses], whom king David made overseers over the Reubenites, and the Gadites, and the half - tribe of the Manassites, for every matter pertaining to God, and for the affairs of the king.
Num 34:18
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18And ye shall take one prince of every tribe, to divide the land for inheritance.
Exod 18:25
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25And Moses chose able men out of all Israel, and made them heads over the people, rulers of thousands, rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens.
1 Chr 12:30-32
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30And of the children of Ephraim twenty thousand and eight hundred, mighty men of valor, famous men in their fathers' houses.
31And of the half-tribe {H4294} of Manasseh eighteen thousand, who were mentioned by name, to come and make David king.
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1 Chr 29:6
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1 Chr 23:2
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Josh 22:15
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Num 17:2
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Josh 21:1
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Ezek 22:6
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Num 13:2
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Ps 68:27
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Judg 20:2
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1 Chr 11:10
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Josh 22:21
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1 Kgs 20:15
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Josh 3:12
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Josh 22:13
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1 Chr 7:9
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1 Chr 24:4
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1 Chr 27:1
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Num 2:28
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Deut 29:10
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Deut 1:13
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13Take you wise men, and understanding, and known, according to your tribes, and I will make them heads over you.
Exod 18:21
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1 Chr 12:14
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1 Chr 12:34
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Num 36:1
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Josh 22:30
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2 Chr 17:14
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2 Chr 1:2
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