1 Chronicles 21:5

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

And Joab gave the sum of the number of the people unto David. And all they of Israel were a thousand thousand and an hundred thousand men that drew sword: and Judah was four hundred threescore and ten thousand men that drew sword.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וַיִּתֵּ֥ן יוֹאָ֛ב אֶת־מִסְפַּ֥ר מִפְקַד־הָעָ֖ם אֶל־דָּוִ֑יד וַיְהִ֣י כָֽל־יִשְׂרָאֵ֡ל אֶ֣לֶף אֲלָפִים֩ וּמֵאָ֨ה אֶ֤לֶף אִישׁ֙ שֹׁ֣לֵֽף חֶ֔רֶב וִֽיהוּדָ֕ה אַרְבַּע֩ מֵא֨וֹת וְשִׁבְעִ֥ים אֶ֛לֶף אִ֖ישׁ שֹׁ֥לֵֽף חָֽרֶב׃

Transliteration

And wayyittēn yôʾāb ʾet-mispar mipqad-the hāʿām to dāwîd, and wayĕhî all yiśrāʾēl a thousand ʾălāpîm and hundred ʾelep ʾîš šōlēp ḥereb, and wîhûdâ four hundred and seventy ʾelep ʾîš šōlēp ḥāreb.

Grammar Details

*wayyittēn*: waw consecutive + qal imperfect, 3rd masculine singular - and he gave
*mispar*: masculine singular construct - number of
*mipqad*: masculine singular construct - census/numbering of
*hāʿām*: definite article + masculine singular noun - the people
*wayĕhî*: waw consecutive + qal imperfect, 3rd masculine singular - and there were
*ʾălāpîm*: masculine plural noun - thousands
*ʾelep*: masculine singular noun - thousand
*ʾîš*: masculine singular noun - man
*šōlēp*: qal participle, masculine singular - drawing/brandishing
*ḥereb*: feminine singular noun - sword
*wîhûdâ*: waw conjunction + proper noun - and Judah

Word Meanings

*mipqad*: census/counting/mustering/enrollment
*šōlēp ḥereb*: drawing sword/able to bear arms/men of war/warriors

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Referenced Verses

2 Sam 24:9 : 9 And Joab gave up the sum of the number of the people unto the king: and there were in Israel eight hundred thousand valiant men that drew the sword; and the men of Judah were five hundred thousand men.
1 Chr 27:23 : 23 But David took not the number of them from twenty years old and under: because the LORD had said he would increase Israel like to the stars of the heavens.

Similar Verses (AI)

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2 Sam 24:9
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9And Joab gave up the sum of the number of the people unto the king: and there were in Israel eight hundred thousand valiant men that drew the sword; and the men of Judah were five hundred thousand men.
Judg 20:17
82%
17And the men of Israel, beside Benjamin, were numbered four hundred thousand men that drew sword: all these were men of war.
Judg 20:2
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2And the chief of all the people, even of all the tribes of Israel, presented themselves in the assembly of the people of God, four hundred thousand footmen that drew sword.
1 Sam 15:4
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4And Saul gathered the people together, and numbered them in Telaim, two hundred thousand footmen, and ten thousand men of Judah.
1 Chr 21:2-4
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2And David said to Joab and to the rulers of the people, Go, number Israel from Beersheba even to Dan; and bring the number of them to me, that I may know it.
3And Joab answered, The LORD make his people an hundred times so many more as they be: but, my lord the king, are they not all my lord's servants? why then doth my lord require this thing? why will he be a cause of trespass to Israel?
4Nevertheless the king's word prevailed against Joab. Wherefore Joab departed, and went throughout all Israel, and came to Jerusalem.
1 Chr 12:23-25
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23And these are the numbers of the bands that were ready armed to the war, and came to David to Hebron, to turn the kingdom of Saul to him, according to the word of the LORD.
24The children of Judah that bare shield and spear were six thousand and eight hundred, ready armed to the war.
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1 Sam 11:8
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8And when he numbered them in Bezek, the children of Israel were three hundred thousand, and the men of Judah thirty thousand.
2 Chr 17:14-15
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1 Chr 12:37
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37And on the other side of Jordan, of the Reubenites, and the Gadites, and of the half tribe of Manasseh, with all manner of instruments of war for the battle, an hundred and twenty thousand.
2 Chr 14:8
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2 Chr 17:18
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1 Kgs 12:21
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1 Chr 21:6
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2 Sam 18:1
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2 Sam 24:2-4
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2 Chr 11:1
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1 Chr 5:18
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2 Chr 2:17
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2 Chr 25:5
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2 Chr 13:3
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Num 31:36
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2 Sam 18:7
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