Numbers 3:39

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

All that were numbered of the Levites, whom Moses and Aaron numbered at the commandment of Jehovah, by their families, all the males from a month old and upward, were twenty and two thousand.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

כָּל־פְּקוּדֵ֨י הַלְוִיִּ֜ם אֲשֶׁר֩ פָּקַ֨ד מֹשֶׁ֧ה וְׄאַׄהֲׄרֹ֛ׄןׄ עַל־פִּ֥י יְהוָ֖ה לְמִשְׁפְּחֹתָ֑ם כָּל־זָכָר֙ מִבֶּן־חֹ֣דֶשׁ וָמַ֔עְלָה שְׁנַ֥יִם וְעֶשְׂרִ֖ים אָֽלֶף׃

Transliteration

All-pəqûdê the-ləwiyyim which pāqad mōšeh and-ʾahărōn according-to pî YHWH by-mišpəḥōtām; all-zākār from-ben-ḥōdeš and-maʿlāh two and-twenty ʾālep.

Grammar Details

*pəqûdê*: construct masculine plural of *pāqad* - numbered ones, those counted
*ləwiyyim*: proper noun, masculine plural with definite article - Levites
*pāqad*: qal perfect 3rd masculine singular - counted, numbered, mustered
*mōšeh*: proper noun - Moses
*ʾahărōn*: proper noun - Aaron
*pî*: construct masculine singular - mouth, word, command
*YHWH*: proper noun - the divine name
*mišpəḥōtām*: feminine plural noun with 3rd masculine plural possessive suffix - their families/clans
*zākār*: masculine singular noun - male
*ben*: construct masculine singular - son, age
*ḥōdeš*: masculine singular noun - month, new moon
*maʿlāh*: feminine singular noun with prefixed conjunction - upward, above
*ʾālep*: masculine singular noun - thousand

Word Meanings

*pəqûdê*: numbered ones, counted ones, those mustered
*pāqad*: counted, mustered, appointed, assigned
*pî*: mouth, command, word, utterance

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Referenced Verses

Num 26:62 : 62 And they that were numbered of them were twenty and three thousand, every male from a month old and upward: for they were not numbered among the children of Israel, because there was no inheritance given them among the children of Israel.
Matt 7:14 : 14 For narrow is the gate, and straitened the way, that leadeth unto life, and few are they that find it.
Num 4:47-48 : 47 from thirty years old and upward even unto fifty years old, every one that entered in to do the work of service, and the work of bearing burdens in the tent of meeting, 48 even those that were numbered of them, were eight thousand and five hundred and fourscore.

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Num 3:42-44
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86%
42and Moses numbered, as Jehovah commanded him, all the first-born among the children of Israel.
43And all the first-born males according to the number of names, from a month old and upward, of those that were numbered of them, were twenty and two thousand two hundred and threescore and thirteen.
44And Jehovah spake unto Moses, saying,
Num 3:15-16
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15Number the children of Levi by their fathers' houses, by their families: every male from a month old and upward shalt thou number them.
16And Moses numbered them according to the word of Jehovah, as he was commanded.
Num 3:34
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Num 3:40
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40And Jehovah said unto Moses, Number all the first-born males of the children of Israel from a month old and upward, and take the number of their names.
Num 3:22
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Num 26:62-63
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62And they that were numbered of them were twenty and three thousand, every male from a month old and upward: for they were not numbered among the children of Israel, because there was no inheritance given them among the children of Israel.
63These are they that were numbered by Moses and Eleazar the priest, who numbered the children of Israel in the plains of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho.
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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 4:44-46
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44even those that were numbered of them by their families, were three thousand and two hundred.
45These are they that were numbered of the families of the sons of Merari, whom Moses and Aaron numbered according to the commandment of Jehovah by Moses.
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32These are they that were numbered of the children of Israel by their fathers' houses: all that were numbered of the camps according to their hosts were six hundred thousand and three thousand and five hundred and fifty.
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Num 3:28
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Num 1:45-47
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45So all they that were numbered of the children of Israel by their fathers' houses, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war in Israel;
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39from thirty years old and upward even unto fifty years old, every one that entered upon the service, for work in the tent of meeting,
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1 Chr 23:24
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