Numbers 25:9

KJV1611 – Modern English

And those who died in the plague were twenty-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

Other Translations

• Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

  But those who died in the plague numbered twenty-four thousand.

• King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

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

• American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

  And those that died{H4191} by the plague{H4046} were twenty{H6242} and four{H702} thousand.{H505}

• King James Version with Strong's Numbers

  And those that died{H4191}{(H8801)} in the plague{H4046} were twenty{H6242} and four{H702} thousand{H505}.

• Tyndale Bible (1526/1534)

  And there dyed in the plage. xxiiij. thousande.

• Coverdale Bible (1535)

  and there were slayne in the plage foure and twentye thousande.

• Geneva Bible (1560)

  And there died in that plague, foure and twentie thousand.

• Bishops' Bible (1568)

  And there dyed in the plague twentie and foure thousande.

• Authorized King James Version (1611)

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

• Webster's Bible (1833)

  Those who died by the plague were twenty-four thousand.

• Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

  and the dead by the plague are four and twenty thousand.

• American Standard Version (1901)

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

• American Standard Version (1901)

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

• Bible in Basic English (1941)

  But twenty-four thousand of them had come to their death by the disease.

• World English Bible (2000)

  Those who died by the plague were twenty-four thousand.

• NET Bible® (New English Translation)

  Those that died in the plague were 24,000.

Referenced Verses

• 1 Cor 10:8 : 8 Do not commit sexual immorality, as some of them did, and in one day twenty-three thousand fell.
• Num 16:49-50 : 49 Now those that died in the plague were fourteen thousand and seven hundred, besides those that died concerning the matter of Korah. 50 And Aaron returned to Moses at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation: and the plague was stayed.
• Num 25:4-5 : 4 And the LORD said to Moses, Take all the leaders of the people and hang them up before the LORD in the sunlight, that the fierce anger of the LORD may be turned away from Israel. 5 And Moses said to the judges of Israel, Slay each of his men who were joined to Baal of Peor.
• Num 31:16 : 16 Look, these women 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 your God has destroyed them from among you. 4 But you who cleaved to 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.