Numbers 31:27

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

and divide the prey into two parts: between the men skilled in war, that went out to battle, and all the congregation.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וְחָצִ֙יתָ֙ אֶת־הַמַּלְק֔וֹחַ בֵּ֚ין תֹּפְשֵׂ֣י הַמִּלְחָמָ֔ה הַיֹּצְאִ֖ים לַצָּבָ֑א וּבֵ֖ין כָּל־הָעֵדָֽה׃

Transliteration

And-ḥāṣîtā ʾet-the-malqôaḥ between tōpśê the-milḥāmāh the-yōṣəʾîm to-the-ṣābāʾ and-between all-the-ʿēdāh.

Grammar Details

*ḥāṣîtā*: Qal perfect, 2nd person masculine singular - you shall divide
*ʾet*: direct object marker
*malqôaḥ*: masculine singular noun with definite article - booty/plunder/spoil
*tōpśê*: Qal participle, masculine plural construct - handlers/warriors of
*milḥāmāh*: feminine singular noun with definite article - battle/war
*yōṣəʾîm*: Qal participle, masculine plural with definite article - going out
*ṣābāʾ*: masculine singular noun with definite article - army/host
*ʿēdāh*: feminine singular noun with definite article - congregation/assembly

Word Meanings

*ḥāṣîtā*: divide/split in half
*tōpśê*: handlers/seizers/warriors/participants
*milḥāmāh*: battle/war/fighting
*yōṣəʾîm*: going out/marching out/those who went out

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Referenced Verses

Josh 22:8 : 8 and spake unto them, saying, Return with much wealth unto your tents, and with very much cattle, with silver, and with gold, and with brass, and with iron, and with very much raiment: divide the spoil of your enemies with your brethren.
1 Sam 30:4 : 4 Then David and the people that were with him lifted up their voice and wept, until they had no more power to weep.
1 Sam 30:24-25 : 24 And who will hearken unto you in this matter? for as his share is that goeth down to the battle, so shall his share be that tarrieth by the baggage: they shall share alike. 25 And it was so from that day forward, that he made it a statute and an ordinance for Israel unto this day.
Ps 68:12 : 12 Kings of armies flee, they flee; And she that tarrieth at home divideth the spoil.

Similar Verses (AI)

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Num 31:25-26
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25And Jehovah spake unto Moses, saying,
26Take the sum of the prey that was taken, both of man and of beast, thou, and Eleazar the priest, and the heads of the fathers' [houses] of the congregation;
Num 31:28-30
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28And levy a tribute unto Jehovah of the men of war that went out to battle: one soul of five hundred, [both] of the persons, and of the oxen, and of the asses, and of the flocks:
29take it of their half, and give it unto Eleazar the priest, for Jehovah's heave-offering.
30And of the children of Israel's half, thou shalt take one drawn out of every fifty, of the persons, of the oxen, of the asses, and of the flocks, [even] of all the cattle, and give them unto the Levites, that keep the charge of the tabernacle of Jehovah.
Num 31:40-44
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40And the persons were sixteen thousand; of whom Jehovah's tribute was thirty and two persons.
41And Moses gave the tribute, which was Jehovah's heave-offering, unto Eleazar the priest, as Jehovah commanded Moses.
42And of the children of Israel's half, which Moses divided off from the men that warred
43(now the congregation's half was three hundred thousand and thirty thousand, seven thousand and five hundred {H4480} sheep,
44and thirty and six thousand oxen,
Num 31:53-54
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53[( For] the men of war had taken booty, every man for himself.)
54And Moses and Eleazar the priest took the gold of the captains of thousands and of hundreds, and brought it into the tent of meeting, for a memorial for the children of Israel before Jehovah.
Num 31:11-12
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11And they took all the spoil, and all the prey, both of man and of beast.
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Num 31:32-33
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32Now the prey, over and above the booty which the men of war took, was six hundred thousand and seventy thousand and five thousand sheep,
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Num 31:46-47
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46and sixteen thousand persons),
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1 Sam 30:24
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Num 31:36-37
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36And the half, which was the portion of them that went out to war, was in number three hundred thousand and thirty thousand and seven thousand and five hundred sheep:
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Num 31:2-5
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2Avenge the children of Israel of the Midianites: afterward shalt thou be gathered unto thy people.
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Deut 2:35
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29These are they whom Jehovah commanded to divide the inheritance unto the children of Israel in the land of Canaan.
Num 31:9
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Deut 21:10
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Num 31:21
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Exod 32:27
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2 Chr 31:19
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