Numbers 31:4

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

Of every tribe a thousand, throughout all the tribes of Israel, shall ye send to the war.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

אֶ֚לֶף לַמַּטֶּ֔ה אֶ֖לֶף לַמַּטֶּ֑ה לְכֹל֙ מַטּ֣וֹת יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל תִּשְׁלְח֖וּ לַצָּבָֽא׃

Transliteration

ʾelep̄ lam-maṭṭeh ʾelep̄ lam-maṭṭeh ləḵōl maṭṭôṯ yiśrāʾēl tišləḥû laṣ-ṣāḇāʾ

Grammar Details

*ʾelep̄*: noun, masculine singular - thousand
*lam-maṭṭeh*: preposition + definite article + noun, masculine singular - for the tribe
*ləḵōl*: preposition + noun, masculine singular construct - for all of
*maṭṭôṯ*: noun, masculine plural construct - tribes of
*yiśrāʾēl*: proper noun - Israel
*tišləḥû*: Qal imperfect, 2nd masculine plural - you shall send
*laṣ-ṣāḇāʾ*: preposition + definite article + noun, masculine singular - for the war/army

Word Meanings

*ʾelep̄*: thousand/a thousand men
*maṭṭeh*: tribe/staff/branch
*tišləḥû*: you shall send/dispatch

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King James Version with Strong's Numbers

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Referenced Verses

Lev 26:8 : 8 And five of you shall chase an hundred, and an hundred of you shall put ten thousand to flight: and your enemies shall fall before you by the sword.
Judg 7:2 : 2 And the LORD said unto Gideon, The people that are with thee are too many for me to give the Midianites into their hands, lest Israel vaunt themselves against me, saying, Mine own hand hath saved me.
1 Sam 14:6 : 6 And Jonathan said to the young man that bare his armour, Come, and let us go over unto the garrison of these uncircumcised: it may be that the LORD will work for us: for there is no restraint to the LORD to save by many or by few.

Similar Verses (AI)

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Num 31:5-7
3 verses
91%
5So there were delivered out of the thousands of Israel, a thousand of every tribe, twelve thousand armed for war.
6And Moses sent them to the war, a thousand of every tribe, them and Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest, to the war, with the holy instruments, and the trumpets to blow in his hand.
7And they warred against the Midianites, as the LORD commanded Moses; and they slew all the males.
Num 31:2-3
2 verses
80%
2Avenge the children of Israel of the Midianites: afterward shalt thou be gathered unto thy people.
3And Moses spake unto the people, saying, Arm some of yourselves unto the war, and let them go against the Midianites, and avenge the LORD of Midian.
Num 1:3-4
2 verses
76%
3From twenty years old and upward, all that are able to go forth to war in Israel: thou and Aaron shall number them by their armies.
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Num 31:27-28
2 verses
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27And divide the prey into two parts; between them that took the war upon them, who went out to battle, and between all the congregation:
28And levy a tribute unto the LORD of the men of war which went out to battle: one soul of five hundred, both of the persons, and of the beeves, and of the asses, and of the sheep:
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.
Josh 4:12-13
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12And the children of Reuben, and the children of Gad, and half the tribe of Manasseh, passed over armed before the children of Israel, as Moses spake unto them:
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1 Chr 5:18
74%
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Num 31:42
74%
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1 Chr 12:37
74%
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Num 13:2
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Judg 20:17
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Num 1:45-46
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45So were all those that were numbered of the children of Israel, by the house of their fathers, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war in Israel;
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Num 1:28-33
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29Those that were numbered of them, even of the tribe of Issachar, were fifty and four thousand and four hundred.
30Of the children of Zebulun, by their generations, after their families, by the house of their fathers, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war;
31Those that were numbered of them, even of the tribe of Zebulun, were fifty and seven thousand and four hundred.
32Of the children of Joseph, namely, of the children of Ephraim, by their generations, after their families, by the house of their fathers, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war;
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Josh 23:10
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Judg 20:10
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1 Chr 21:5
73%
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72%
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Num 26:2
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Num 31:40
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Num 1:26
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Josh 22:14
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Num 31:32
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