Numbers 10:2

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

Make thee two trumpets of silver; of beaten work shalt thou make them: and thou shalt use them for the calling of the congregation, and for the journeying of the camps.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

עֲשֵׂ֣ה לְךָ֗ שְׁתֵּי֙ חֲצֽוֹצְרֹ֣ת כֶּ֔סֶף מִקְשָׁ֖ה תַּעֲשֶׂ֣ה אֹתָ֑ם וְהָי֤וּ לְךָ֙ לְמִקְרָ֣א הָֽעֵדָ֔ה וּלְמַסַּ֖ע אֶת־הַֽמַּחֲנֽוֹת׃

Transliteration

ʿăśēh to-you šәttê ḥăṣôṣәrôt kesep miqšâh taʿăśeh them and-hāyû to-you for-miqrāʾ the-ʿēdâh and-for-massaʿ ʾet-the-maḥănôt.

Grammar Details

*ʿăśēh*: Qal imperative, masculine singular - make
*šәttê*: cardinal number, feminine dual construct - two
*ḥăṣôṣәrôt*: feminine plural noun - trumpets
*kesep*: masculine singular noun - silver
*miqšâh*: feminine singular noun - hammered/beaten work
*taʿăśeh*: Qal imperfect, 2nd masculine singular - you shall make
*hāyû*: Qal perfect, 3rd common plural - they shall be
*miqrāʾ*: masculine singular noun construct - calling/summoning
*ʿēdâh*: feminine singular noun - congregation/assembly
*massaʿ*: masculine singular noun construct - moving/journey
*maḥănôt*: masculine plural noun - camps

Word Meanings

*ḥăṣôṣәrôt*: trumpets/clarions
*miqšâh*: beaten work/hammered piece
*miqrāʾ*: summoning/assembling/calling
*ʿēdâh*: congregation/assembly/community
*massaʿ*: breaking camp/moving/journeying

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American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

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Referenced Verses

Isa 1:13 : 13 Bring no more vain oblations; incense is an abomination unto me; new moon and sabbath, the calling of assemblies,— I cannot away with iniquity and the solemn meeting.
Ps 81:3 : 3 Blow the trumpet at the new moon, At the full moon, on our feast - day.
Joel 1:14 : 14 Sanctify a fast, call a solemn assembly, gather the old men [and] all the inhabitants of the land unto the house of Jehovah your God, and cry unto Jehovah.
Eph 4:5 : 5 one Lord, one faith, one baptism,
Ps 89:15 : 15 Blessed is the people that know the joyful sound: They walk, O Jehovah, in the light of thy countenance.
Hos 8:1 : 1 [Set] the trumpet to thy mouth. As an eagle [he cometh] against the house of Jehovah, because they have transgressed my covenant, and trespassed against my law.
Exod 25:18 : 18 And thou shalt make two cherubim of gold; of beaten work shalt thou make them, at the two ends of the mercy-seat.
Exod 25:31 : 31 And thou shalt make a candlestick of pure gold: of beaten work shall the candlestick be made, even its base, and its shaft; its cups, its knops, and its flowers, shall be of one piece with it:
Num 10:7 : 7 But when the assembly is to be gathered together, ye shall blow, but ye shall not sound an alarm.
2 Kgs 12:13 : 13 But there were not made for the house of Jehovah cups of silver, snuffers, basins, trumpets, any vessels of gold, or vessels of silver, of the money that was brought into the house of Jehovah;
2 Chr 5:12 : 12 also the Levites who were the singers, all of them, even Asaph, Heman, Jeduthun, and their sons and their brethren, arrayed in fine linen, with cymbals and psalteries and harps, stood at the east end of the altar, and with them a hundred and twenty priests sounding with trumpets;)

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