Numbers 9:22

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

Or whether it were two days, or a month, or a year, that the cloud tarried upon the tabernacle, remaining thereon, the children of Israel abode in their tents, and journeyed not: but when it was taken up, they journeyed.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

אֽוֹ־יֹמַ֜יִם אוֹ־חֹ֣דֶשׁ אוֹ־יָמִ֗ים בְּהַאֲרִ֨יךְ הֶעָנָ֤ן עַל־הַמִּשְׁכָּן֙ לִשְׁכֹּ֣ן עָלָ֔יו יַחֲנ֥וּ בְנֵֽי־יִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל וְלֹ֣א יִסָּ֑עוּ וּבְהֵעָלֹת֖וֹ יִסָּֽעוּ׃

Transliteration

Or yōmayim or ḥōḏeš or yāmîm in haʾărîḵ the ʿānān upon the miškān to lišəkōn upon it, yaḥănû bənê-Yiśrāʾēl and not yissāʿû and in hēʿālōṯô yissāʿû.

Grammar Details

*yōmayim*: common noun, masculine dual - two days
*ḥōḏeš*: common noun, masculine singular - month
*yāmîm*: common noun, masculine plural - days
*haʾărîḵ*: Hiphil infinitive construct - prolonging/lingering
*ʿānān*: common noun, masculine singular with definite article - the cloud
*miškān*: common noun, masculine singular with definite article - the tabernacle
*lišəkōn*: preposition + Qal infinitive construct - to remain/dwell
*yaḥănû*: Qal imperfect, 3rd masculine plural - they remained camped
*bənê-Yiśrāʾēl*: construct phrase - children of Israel
*yissāʿû*: Qal imperfect, 3rd masculine plural - they would set out
*hēʿālōṯô*: Niphal infinitive construct with 3rd masculine singular suffix - its being taken up

Word Meanings

*haʾărîḵ*: prolonging/remaining long/lingering/continuing
*lišəkōn*: to remain/to dwell/to stay/to abide
*hēʿālōṯô*: its being lifted up/its rising/its being taken up

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Referenced Verses

Exod 40:36-37 : 36 And when the cloud was taken up from over the tabernacle, the children of Israel went onward in all their journeys: 37 But if the cloud were not taken up, then they journeyed not till the day that it was taken up.
Ps 32:8 : 8 I will instruct thee and teach thee in the way which thou shalt go: I will guide thee with mine eye.
Ps 48:14 : 14 For this God is our God for ever and ever: he will be our guide{H8762)} even unto death.
Ps 73:24 : 24 Thou shalt guide{H8686)} me with thy counsel, and afterward receive{H8799)} me to glory.
Ps 77:20 : 20 Thou leddest{H8804)} thy people like a flock by the hand of Moses and Aaron.
Ps 107:7 : 7 And he led them forth by the right way, that they might go to a city of habitation.
Ps 143:10 : 10 Teach me to do thy will; for thou art my God: thy spirit is good; lead me into the land of uprightness.
Prov 3:5-6 : 5 Trust in the LORD with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding. 6 In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths.
Acts 1:4 : 4 And, being assembled together with them, commanded them that they should not depart from Jerusalem, but wait for the promise of the Father, which, saith he, ye have heard of me.
Num 1:54 : 54 And the children of Israel did according to all that the LORD commanded Moses, so did they.
Num 8:20 : 20 And Moses, and Aaron, and all the congregation of the children of Israel, did to the Levites according unto all that the LORD commanded Moses concerning the Levites, so did the children of Israel unto them.
Num 9:17 : 17 And when the cloud was taken up from the tabernacle, then after that the children of Israel journeyed: and in the place where the cloud abode, there the children of Israel pitched their tents.
Num 23:21-22 : 21 He hath not beheld iniquity in Jacob, neither hath he seen perverseness in Israel: the LORD his God is with him, and the shout of a king is among them. 22 God brought them out of Egypt; he hath as it were the strength of an unicorn.
Deut 1:6-7 : 6 The LORD our God spake unto us in Horeb, saying, Ye have dwelt long enough in this mount: 7 Turn you, and take your journey, and go to the mount of the Amorites, and unto all the places nigh thereunto, in the plain, in the hills, and in the vale, and in the south, and by the sea side, to the land of the Canaanites, and unto Lebanon, unto the great river, the river Euphrates.
Deut 2:3-4 : 3 Ye have compassed this mountain long enough: turn you northward. 4 And command thou the people, saying, Ye are to pass through the coast of your brethren the children of Esau, which dwell in Seir; and they shall be afraid of you: take ye good heed unto yourselves therefore:
Exod 39:42 : 42 According to all that the LORD commanded Moses, so the children of Israel made all the work.
Exod 40:16 : 16 Thus did Moses: according to all that the LORD commanded him, so did he.

Similar Verses (AI)

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Num 9:15-21
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15And on the day that the tabernacle was reared up the cloud covered the tabernacle, namely, the tent of the testimony: and at even there was upon the tabernacle as it were the appearance of fire, until the morning.
16So it was alway: the cloud covered it by day, and the appearance of fire by night.
17And when the cloud was taken up from the tabernacle, then after that the children of Israel journeyed: and in the place where the cloud abode, there the children of Israel pitched their tents.
18At the commandment of the LORD the children of Israel journeyed, and at the commandment of the LORD they pitched: as long as the cloud abode upon the tabernacle they rested in their tents.
19And when the cloud tarried long upon the tabernacle many days, then the children of Israel kept the charge of the LORD, and journeyed not.
20And so it was, when the cloud was a few days upon the tabernacle; according to the commandment of the LORD they abode in their tents, and according to the commandment of the LORD they journeyed.
21And so it was, when the cloud abode from even unto the morning, and that the cloud was taken up in the morning, then they journeyed: whether it was by day or by night that the cloud was taken up, they journeyed.
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34Then a cloud covered the tent of the congregation, and the glory of the LORD filled the tabernacle.
35And Moses was not able to enter into the tent of the congregation, because the cloud abode thereon, and the glory of the LORD filled the tabernacle.
36And when the cloud was taken up from over the tabernacle, the children of Israel went onward in all their journeys:
37But if the cloud were not taken up, then they journeyed not till the day that it was taken up.
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Num 9:23
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11And it came to pass on the twentieth day of the second month, in the second year, that the cloud was taken up from off the tabernacle of the testimony.
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Num 10:33-34
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Exod 19:1-2
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Exod 10:23
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Deut 31:15
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