1 Chronicles 27:23

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

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.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וְלֹא־נָשָׂ֤א דָוִיד֙ מִסְפָּרָ֔ם לְמִבֶּ֛ן עֶשְׂרִ֥ים שָׁנָ֖ה וּלְמָ֑טָּה כִּ֚י אָמַ֣ר יְהוָ֔ה לְהַרְבּ֥וֹת אֶת־יִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל כְּכוֹכְבֵ֥י הַשָּׁמָֽיִם׃

Transliteration

And not-nāśā' Dāwiḏ misəpārām from ben twenty šānāh and downward; for 'āmar YHWH to harbôṯ 'eṯ-Yiśrā'ēl like kôḵəḇê the šāmāyim.

Grammar Details

*nāśā'*: verb, qal perfect, 3rd masculine singular - he lifted/counted
*Dāwiḏ*: proper noun - David
*misəpārām*: noun, masculine singular with 3rd person plural suffix - their number
*ben*: noun, masculine singular construct - son of
*šānāh*: noun, feminine singular - year
*'āmar*: verb, qal perfect, 3rd masculine singular - he said
*YHWH*: proper noun - Yahweh
*harbôṯ*: verb, hiphil infinitive construct - to multiply
*'eṯ*: direct object marker
*Yiśrā'ēl*: proper noun - Israel
*kôḵəḇê*: noun, masculine plural construct - stars of
*šāmāyim*: noun, masculine plural - heavens

Word Meanings

*nāśā'*: lifted/carried/took/counted
*misəpārām*: their number/their census
*harbôṯ*: to multiply/to increase
*kôḵəḇê*: stars of
*šāmāyim*: heavens/sky

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Referenced Verses

Gen 15:5 : 5 And he brought him forth abroad, and said, Look now toward heaven, and tell the stars, if thou be able to number them: and he said unto him, So shall thy seed be.
Heb 11:12 : 12 Therefore sprang there even of one, and him as good as dead, so many as the stars of the sky in multitude, and as the sand which is by the sea shore innumerable.
Num 1:18 : 18 And they assembled all the congregation together on the first day of the second month, and they declared their pedigrees after their families, by the house of their fathers, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, by their polls.
1 Chr 21:2-5 : 2 And 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. 3 And 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? 4 Nevertheless the king's word prevailed against Joab. Wherefore Joab departed, and went throughout all Israel, and came to Jerusalem. 5 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.

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