Numbers 26:2

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

Take the sum of all the congregation of the children of Israel, from twenty years old and upward, by their fathers' houses, all that are able to go forth to war in Israel.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

שְׂא֞וּ אֶת־רֹ֣אשׁ ׀ כָּל־עֲדַ֣ת בְּנֵי־יִשְׂרָאֵ֗ל מִבֶּ֨ן עֶשְׂרִ֥ים שָׁנָ֛ה וָמַ֖עְלָה לְבֵ֣ית אֲבֹתָ֑ם כָּל־יֹצֵ֥א צָבָ֖א בְּיִשְׂרָאֵֽל׃

Transliteration

Śəʾû ʾet-rōʾš all-ʿădat sons-of-Yiśrāʾēl from ben twenty šānāh and māʿlāh to bêt ʾăbōtām all-yōṣēʾ ṣābāʾ in Yiśrāʾēl

Grammar Details

*Śəʾû*: qal imperative, masculine plural - take/lift up
*ʾet*: direct object marker
*rōʾš*: noun, masculine singular construct - head/sum of
*ʿădat*: noun, feminine singular construct - congregation/assembly of
*Yiśrāʾēl*: proper noun - Israel
*ben*: noun, masculine singular construct - son of/from the age of
*šānāh*: noun, feminine singular - year
*māʿlāh*: noun, feminine singular with conjunction - and upward
*bêt*: noun, masculine singular construct - house of
*ʾăbōtām*: noun, masculine plural with 3rd person masculine plural suffix - their fathers
*yōṣēʾ*: qal participle, masculine singular construct - goes out to
*ṣābāʾ*: noun, masculine singular - army/war/military service

Word Meanings

*Śəʾû*: take/lift up/carry/count
*rōʾš*: head/sum/total/census
*yōṣēʾ* *ṣābāʾ*: who goes out to war/able to serve in the army/fit for military service

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Referenced Verses

Exod 38:25-26 : 25 And the silver of them that were numbered of the congregation was a hundred talents, and a thousand seven hundred and threescore and fifteen shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary: 26 a beka a head, [that is], half a shekel, after the shekel of the sanctuary, for every one that passed over to them that were numbered, from twenty years old and upward, for six hundred thousand and three thousand and five hundred and fifty men.
Num 1:2-3 : 2 Take ye the sum of all the congregation of the children of Israel, by their families, by their fathers' houses, according to the number of the names, every male, by their polls; 3 from twenty years old and upward, all that are able to go forth to war in Israel, thou and Aaron shall number them by their hosts.
Exod 30:11-16 : 11 And Jehovah spake unto Moses, saying, 12 When thou takest the sum of the children of Israel, according to those that are numbered of them, then shall they give every man a ransom for his soul unto Jehovah, when thou numberest them; that there be no plague among them, when thou numberest them. 13 This they shall give, every one that passeth over unto them that are numbered: half a shekel after the shekel of the sanctuary (the shekel is twenty gerahs), half a shekel for an offering to Jehovah. 14 Every one that passeth over unto them that are numbered, from twenty years old and upward, shall give the offering of Jehovah. 15 The rich shall not give more, and the poor shall not give less, than the half shekel, when they give the offering of Jehovah, to make atonement for your souls. 16 And thou shalt take the atonement money from the children of Israel, and shalt appoint it for the service of the tent of meeting; that it may be a memorial for the children of Israel before Jehovah, to make atonement for your souls.

Similar Verses (AI)

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Num 26:3-4
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3And Moses and Eleazar the priest spake with them in the plains of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho, saying,
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Num 1:2-3
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2Take ye the sum of all the congregation of the children of Israel, by their families, by their fathers' houses, according to the number of the names, every male, by their polls;
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Num 1:26
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Num 1:34
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Num 1:30
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Num 1:42
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Num 3:39-40
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Num 1:36
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Num 1:28
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Num 1:38
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Num 4:39
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