Numbers 32:42

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

And Nobah went and took Kenath, and the villages thereof, and called it Nobah, after his own name.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וְנֹ֣בַח הָלַ֔ךְ וַיִּלְכֹּ֥ד אֶת־קְנָ֖ת וְאֶת־בְּנֹתֶ֑יהָ וַיִּקְרָ֧א לָ֦ה נֹ֖בַח בִּשְׁמֽוֹ׃ פ

Transliteration

wə-nōbaḥ hālak wayyilkōd ʾet-qənāt wə-ʾet-bənōteyhā wayyiqrāʾ lāh nōbaḥ bi-šəmô p

Grammar Details

*wə-nōbaḥ*: conjunction + proper noun - and Nobah
*hālak*: verb, qal perfect 3rd person masculine singular - he went
*wayyilkōd*: conjunction + verb, qal imperfect 3rd person masculine singular - and he captured
*ʾet-qənāt*: direct object marker + proper noun - Kenath
*wə-ʾet-bənōteyhā*: conjunction + direct object marker + noun, feminine plural + 3rd person feminine singular suffix - and its daughter-villages
*wayyiqrāʾ*: conjunction + verb, qal imperfect 3rd person masculine singular - and he called
*lāh*: preposition + 3rd person feminine singular suffix - to it
*nōbaḥ*: proper noun - Nobah
*bi-šəmô*: preposition + noun, masculine singular + 3rd person masculine singular suffix - by/after his name
*p*: paragraph marker

Word Meanings

*bənōteyhā*: its daughter-villages/its surrounding settlements/its dependent towns
*wayyiqrāʾ lāh*: he called it/he named it
*bi-šəmô*: by/after his name/according to his own name

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American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

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Referenced Verses

2 Sam 18:18 : 18 Now Absalom in his lifetime had taken and reared up for himself the pillar, which is in the king's dale; for he said, I have no son to keep my name in remembrance: and he called the pillar after his own name; and it is called Absalom's monument, unto this day.
Ps 49:11 : 11 Their inward thought is, [that] their houses [shall continue] for ever, [And] their dwelling-places to all generations; They call their lands after their own names.

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