Numbers 25:9

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

And those that died in the plague were twenty and four thousand.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וַיִּהְי֕וּ הַמֵּתִ֖ים בַּמַּגֵּפָ֑ה אַרְבָּעָ֥ה וְעֶשְׂרִ֖ים אָֽלֶף׃

Transliteration

wə-yihyû the-mēṯîm in-the-maggēp̄āh ʾarbāʿāh wə-ʿeśrîm ʾālep̄

Grammar Details

*wə-yihyû*: conjunction + Qal imperfect 3rd masculine plural - and were
*mēṯîm*: Qal participle masculine plural with definite article - the dead ones
*maggēp̄āh*: common noun, feminine singular with definite article and preposition - in the plague
*ʾarbāʿāh*: numeral, feminine - four
*wə-ʿeśrîm*: conjunction + numeral - and twenty
*ʾālep̄*: common noun, masculine singular - thousand

Word Meanings

*mēṯîm*: dead ones/those who died
*maggēp̄āh*: plague/pestilence/slaughter
*ʾarbāʿāh wə-ʿeśrîm ʾālep̄*: twenty-four thousand

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King James Version with Strong's Numbers

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Referenced Verses

1 Cor 10:8 : 8 Neither let us commit fornication, as some of them committed, and fell in one day three and twenty thousand.
Num 16:49-50 : 49 Now they that died in the plague were fourteen thousand and seven hundred, beside them that died about the matter of Korah. 50 And Aaron returned unto Moses unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation: and the plague was stayed.
Num 25:4-5 : 4 And the LORD said unto Moses, Take all the heads of the people, and hang them up before the LORD against the sun, that the fierce anger of the LORD may be turned away from Israel. 5 And Moses said unto the judges of Israel, Slay ye every one his men that were joined unto Baalpeor.
Num 31:16 : 16 Behold, these caused the children of Israel, through the counsel of Balaam, to commit trespass against the LORD in the matter of Peor, and there was a plague among the congregation of the LORD.
Deut 4:3-4 : 3 Your eyes have seen what the LORD did because of Baalpeor: for all the men that followed Baalpeor, the LORD thy God hath destroyed them from among you. 4 But ye that did cleave unto the LORD your God are alive every one of you this day.
Num 14:37 : 37 Even those men that did bring up the evil report upon the land, died by the plague before the LORD.

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