Numbers 13:3

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

And Moses by the commandment of the LORD sent them from the wilderness of Paran: all those men were heads of the children of Israel.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וַיִּשְׁלַ֨ח אֹתָ֥ם מֹשֶׁ֛ה מִמִּדְבַּ֥ר פָּארָ֖ן עַל־פִּ֣י יְהוָ֑ה כֻּלָּ֣ם אֲנָשִׁ֔ים רָאשֵׁ֥י בְנֵֽי־יִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל הֵֽמָּה׃

Transliteration

wa-yišlaḥ ʾōtām mōšeh mi-midbar pāʾrān ʿal-pî YHWH kullām ʾănāšîm rāʾšê bənê-yiśrāʾēl hēmmâ

Grammar Details

*wa-yišlaḥ*: waw consecutive + Qal imperfect, 3rd masculine singular - and he sent
*ʾōtām*: direct object marker + 3rd masculine plural suffix - them
*mōšeh*: proper noun - Moses
*mi-midbar*: preposition + noun, masculine singular construct - from wilderness of
*pāʾrān*: proper noun - Paran
*ʿal*: preposition - according to
*pî*: noun, masculine singular construct - mouth/command of
*YHWH*: proper noun - Yahweh/LORD
*kullām*: noun, masculine singular + 3rd masculine plural suffix - all of them
*ʾănāšîm*: noun, masculine plural - men
*rāʾšê*: noun, masculine plural construct - heads/chiefs of
*bənê*: noun, masculine plural construct - sons/children of
*yiśrāʾēl*: proper noun - Israel
*hēmmâ*: personal pronoun, 3rd masculine plural - they

Word Meanings

*ʿal-pî*: according to mouth of/by command of/at direction of
*rāʾšê*: heads/chiefs/leaders

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King James Version with Strong's Numbers

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Referenced Verses

Num 12:16 : 16 And afterward the people removed from Hazeroth, and pitched in the wilderness of Paran.
Num 32:8 : 8 Thus did your fathers, when I sent them from Kadeshbarnea to see the land.
Deut 1:19 : 19 And when we departed from Horeb, we went through all that great and terrible wilderness, which ye saw by the way of the mountain of the Amorites, as the LORD our God commanded us; and we came to Kadeshbarnea.
Deut 9:23 : 23 Likewise when the LORD sent you from Kadeshbarnea, saying, Go up and possess the land which I have given you; then ye rebelled against the commandment of the LORD your God, and ye believed him not, nor hearkened to his voice.
Deut 1:23 : 23 And the saying pleased me well: and I took twelve men of you, one of a tribe:

Similar Verses (AI)

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1And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
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12And the children of Israel took their journeys out of the wilderness of Sinai; and the cloud rested in the wilderness of Paran.
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16These are the names of the men which Moses sent to spy out the land. And Moses called Oshea the son of Nun Jehoshua.
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76%
1And Moses spake unto the heads of the tribes concerning the children of Israel, saying, This is the thing which the LORD hath commanded.
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16And Moses numbered them according to the word of the LORD, as he was commanded.
Num 1:19
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Deut 1:22-23
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73%
22And ye came near unto me every one of you, and said, We will send men before us, and they shall search us out the land, and bring us word again by what way we must go up, and into what cities we shall come.
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Exod 6:13
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13And the LORD spake unto Moses and unto Aaron, and gave them a charge unto the children of Israel, and unto Pharaoh king of Egypt, to bring the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt.
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Exod 18:25
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Num 26:3-4
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Num 36:5
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Num 14:39
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39And Moses told these sayings unto all the children of Israel: and the people mourned greatly.
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Num 14:26
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Num 27:12
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Num 31:1
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Num 34:16
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16And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
Num 10:28
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28Thus were the journeyings of the children of Israel according to their armies, when they set forward.
Exod 33:1
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Num 14:13
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Num 34:29
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29These are they whom the LORD commanded to divide the inheritance unto the children of Israel in the land of Canaan.
Deut 1:19
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19And when we departed from Horeb, we went through all that great and terrible wilderness, which ye saw by the way of the mountain of the Amorites, as the LORD our God commanded us; and we came to Kadeshbarnea.
Josh 3:12
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12Now therefore take you twelve men out of the tribes of Israel, out of every tribe a man.
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