Numbers 1:18

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

And they assembled all the congregation together on the first day of the second month; and they declared their pedigrees after their families, by their fathers' houses, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, by their polls.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וְאֵ֨ת כָּל־הָעֵדָ֜ה הִקְהִ֗ילוּ בְּאֶחָד֙ לַחֹ֣דֶשׁ הַשֵּׁנִ֔י וַיִּתְיַֽלְד֥וּ עַל־מִשְׁפְּחֹתָ֖ם לְבֵ֣ית אֲבֹתָ֑ם בְּמִסְפַּ֣ר שֵׁמ֗וֹת מִבֶּ֨ן עֶשְׂרִ֥ים שָׁנָ֛ה וָמַ֖עְלָה לְגֻלְגְּלֹתָֽם׃

Transliteration

And-ʾēt all-the-ʿēdāh hiqhîlû in-one to-the-ḥōdeš the-second and-wayyityaldû upon-mišpəḥōtām to-bêt ʾăbōtām in-mispar šēmôt from-ben twenty šānāh and-maʿlāh to-guləgəlōtām

Grammar Details

*ʾēt*: direct object marker with conjunction
*ʿēdāh*: noun, feminine singular with definite article - the congregation
*hiqhîlû*: Hiphil perfect, 3rd common plural - they assembled
*ḥōdeš*: noun, masculine singular with preposition and definite article - to the month
*wayyityaldû*: waw-consecutive + Hithpael imperfect, 3rd masculine plural - and they declared their genealogy
*mišpəḥōtām*: noun, feminine plural with 3rd masculine plural suffix + preposition - upon their families
*bêt*: noun, masculine singular construct with preposition - to house of
*ʾăbōtām*: noun, masculine plural with 3rd masculine plural suffix - their fathers
*mispar*: noun, masculine singular with preposition - in number of
*šēmôt*: noun, masculine plural - names
*ben*: noun, masculine singular construct with preposition - from son of/from age
*šānāh*: noun, feminine singular - year
*maʿlāh*: noun, feminine singular with conjunction - and upward
*guləgəlōtām*: noun, feminine plural with 3rd masculine plural suffix + preposition - by their heads/polls

Word Meanings

*hiqhîlû*: assembled/gathered/convened
*wayyityaldû*: declared their genealogy/registered their ancestry/enrolled themselves
*guləgəlōtām*: by their heads/by their polls/individually

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American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

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Referenced Verses

Ezra 2:59 : 59 And these were they that went up from Tel-melah, Tel-harsha, Cherub, Addan, [and] Immer; but they could not show their fathers' houses, and their seed, whether they were of Israel:
Heb 7:3 : 3 without father, without mother, without genealogy, having neither beginning of days nor end of life, but made like unto the Son of God), abideth a priest {G1519} continually.
Heb 7:6 : 6 but he whose genealogy is not counted from them hath taken tithes of Abraham, and hath blessed him that hath the promises.
Neh 7:61 : 61 And these were they that went up from Tel-melah, Tel-harsha, Cherub, Addon, and Immer; but they could not show their fathers' houses, nor their seed, whether they were of Israel:
Num 1:1 : 1 And Jehovah spake unto Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, in the tent of meeting, on the first day of the second month, in the second year after they were come out of the land of Egypt, saying,

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Num 1:1-4
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1And Jehovah spake unto Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, in the tent of meeting, on the first day of the second month, in the second year after they were come out of the land of Egypt, saying,
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Num 1:16-17
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Num 1:19-20
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19As Jehovah commanded Moses, so he numbered them in the wilderness of Sinai.
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Num 1:26
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Num 26:2
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Num 1:32
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Num 1:44-45
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Num 1:24
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Num 1:30
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Num 1:34-36
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Num 1:42
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Num 4:44
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Num 4:30
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