Numbers 1:22

Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex) Numbers 1:22 appears in the Hebrew Old Testament. The text above is from the Westminster Leningrad Codex. Each word links to its Strong’s number, a concise gloss, and parsing drawn from the Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible morphology. Click any word for its full Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB) entry.
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Of the children of Simeon, their generations, by their families, by their fathers' houses, those who were numbered of it, according to the number of the names, one by one, every male from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go out to war;
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  • World English Bible Public Domain
    Of the children of Simeon, their generations, by their families, by their fathers' houses, those who were numbered of it, according to the number of the names, one by one, every male from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go out to war;
  • King James Version Public Domain
    Of the children of Simeon, by their generations, after their families, by the house of their fathers, those that were numbered of them, according to the number of the names, by their polls, every male from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war;
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
    Of the sons of Simeon, their generations according to their clans, according to the house of their fathers, his counted ones by the number of the names, according to their skulls, every male from a son of 20 years and upward, everyone who goes out to war,

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  • World English Bible Public Domain
    Of the children of Simeon, their generations, by their families, by their fathers' houses, those who were numbered of it, according to the number of the names, one by one, every male from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go out to war;
  • Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
    From the sons of Simeon, according to the records of their clans and families, counting one by one the names of every male twenty years of age or older who could serve in the army,
  • Majority Standard Bible Public Domain
    From the sons of Simeon, according to the records of their clans and families, counting one by one the names of every male twenty years of age or older who could serve in the army,
  • King James Version Public Domain
    Of the children of Simeon, by their generations, after their families, by the house of their fathers, those that were numbered of them, according to the number of the names, by their polls, every male from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war;
  • American Standard Version (1901) Public Domain
    Of the children of Simeon, their generations, by their families, by their fathers' houses, those that were numbered thereof, according to the number of the names, by their polls, every male from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war;
  • Revised Version (1885) Public Domain
    Of the children of Simeon, their generations, by their families, by their fathers’ houses, those that were numbered thereof, according to the number of the names, by their polls, every male from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war;
  • Geneva Bible (1599) Public Domain
    Of the sonnes of Simeon by their generatios, by their families, and by the houses of their fathers, the summe therof by the nomber of their names, man by man, euery male from twentie yeere olde and aboue, all that went forth to warre:
  • Douay-Rheims (1899) Public Domain
    Of the sons of Simeon by their generations and families, and houses of their kindreds, were reckoned up by the names and heads of every one, all that were of the male sex, from twenty years old and upward, that were able to go forth to war,
  • Young's Literal Translation Public Domain
    Of the sons of Simeon -- their births, by their families, by the house of their fathers, its numbered ones in the number of names, by their polls, every male from a son of twenty years and upward, every one going out to the host --
  • Literal Standard Version CC BY-SA 4.0
    Of the sons of Simeon—their births, by their families, by the house of their fathers, its numbered ones in the number of names, by their counted heads, every male from a son of twenty years and upward, everyone going out to the host—
  • Unlocked Literal Bible CC BY-SA 4.0
    From the descendants of Simeon were counted all the names of each and every man twenty years old or older able to go to war, from the records of their ancestor's clans and families.
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
    Of the sons of Simeon, their generations according to their clans, according to the house of their fathers, his counted ones by the number of the names, according to their skulls, every male from a son of 20 years and upward, everyone who goes out to war,
  • Darby Bible Public Domain
    Of the sons of Simeon: their generations, after their families, according to their fathers' houses, those that were numbered of them, by the number of the names, according to their polls, every male from twenty years old and upward, all that went forth to military service:
  • World Messianic Bible Public Domain
    Of the children of Simeon, their generations, by their families, by their fathers’ houses, those who were counted of it, according to the number of the names, one by one, every male from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go out to war:
  • Webster's Bible Public Domain
    Of the children of Simeon, by their generations, after their families, by the house of their fathers, those that were numbered of them according to the number of the names, by their polls, every male from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war;
  • Free Bible Version CC BY-SA 4.0
    The descendants of Simeon, men aged twenty or over, were recorded by name according to the genealogical records of their tribe and families. All those registered who could serve in the army
  • Bible in Basic English Public Domain
    The generations of the sons of Simeon were numbered by their families and their fathers' houses, every male of twenty years old and over, who was able to go to war;
  • JPS Tanakh (1917) Public Domain
    Of the children of Simeon, their generations, by their families, by their fathers' houses, those that were numbered thereof, according to the number of names, by their polls, every male from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war;

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לְגֻלְגְּלֹתָ֔ם
gulgôleth
H1538
“to/for · skulls · their”
Preposition + Noun, Common, Feminine, Plural, Construct + Suffix, Personal, 3rd Person, Masculine, Plural
Part of Speech
Preposition + Noun
Type
Common
Gender
Feminine
Number
Plural
State
Construct
Full BDB Definition

Origin: by reduplication from H1556

TWOT: 353l

head, poll, skull - skull - head, poll (of census)
  1. לִבְנֵ֣י bên H1121 “to/for · sons of” Preposition + Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Construct
  2. שִׁמְע֔וֹן Shimʻôwn H8095 “Simeon” Noun, Proper
  3. תּוֹלְדֹתָ֥ם tôwlᵉdâh H8435 “generations · their” Noun, Common, Feminine, Plural, Construct + Suffix, Personal, 3rd Person, Masculine, Plural
  4. לְמִשְׁפְּחֹתָ֖ם mishpâchâh H4940 “to/for · families · their” Preposition + Noun, Common, Feminine, Plural, Construct + Suffix, Personal, 3rd Person, Masculine, Plural
  5. לְבֵ֣ית bayith H1004 “to/for · house of” Preposition + Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct
  6. אֲבֹתָ֑ם ʼâb H1 “fathers · their” Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Construct + Suffix, Personal, 3rd Person, Masculine, Plural
  7. פְּקֻדָ֗יו pâqad H6485 “visited · him” Verb, Qal, Participle Passive, Masculine, Plural, Construct + Suffix, Personal, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular
  8. בְּמִסְפַּ֤ר miçpâr H4557 “in/at · number of” Preposition + Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct
  9. שֵׁמוֹת֙ shêm H8034 “names” Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Absolute
  10. כָּל kôl H3605 “all of” Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct
  11. זָכָ֗ר zâkâr H2145 “male” Adjective, Adjective, Masculine, Singular, Absolute
  12. מִבֶּ֨ן bên H1121 “from · son of” Preposition + Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct
  13. עֶשְׂרִ֤ים ʻesrîym H6242 “twenty” Adjective, Cardinal number, Both, Plural, Absolute
  14. שָׁנָה֙ shâneh H8141 “year” Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Absolute
  15. וָמַ֔עְלָה maʻal H4605 “and · above · toward” Conjunction + Adverb + Suffix, Demonstrative
  16. כֹּ֖ל kôl H3605 “all of” Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct
  17. יֹצֵ֥א yâtsâʼ H3318 “going out” Verb, Qal, Participle Active, Masculine, Singular, Construct
  18. צָבָֽא tsâbâʼ H6635 “army” Noun, Common, Both, Singular, Absolute

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19
words
17
distinct lemmas
Pentateuch
section

Notable vocabulary

The rarest word here is לְגֻלְגְּלֹתָ֔ם skull H1538 — appearing just 12 times in the whole Hebrew Bible.

Shared distinctive vocabulary

לְגֻלְגְּלֹתָ֔ם skull H1538 occurs in 12 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:

Grammatical profile

  • 2 verbs
  • 14 nouns
  • 2 adjectives
  • 1 adverb

Verb forms

  • פְּקֻדָ֗יו Qal · Participle Passive
  • יֹצֵ֥א Qal · Participle Active

Repetition

Words recur within this verse — often emphatic in Hebrew:

  • לִבְנֵ֣י son H1121 ×2
  • כָּל all H3605 ×2

Hebrew & Septuagint length

In English translation the verse runs 47 words from the Hebrew and 47 from the Septuagint (LXX English) — the same length.

A rough comparison of the two English renderings, which tokenize alike — not a word-level alignment.

Word counts can differ between the Hebrew and the Greek without any difference in meaning — e.g. the Hebrew direct-object marker אֵת has no separate Greek word, and Greek often adds the article ὁ.

In the original languages it is 19 Hebrew tokens and 32 Greek tokens — but the two are counted differently (Hebrew bundles its prefixes and suffixes into one token; the Greek is in lemma form), so that isn’t a like-for-like length.

Cross-references

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Topical passages linked to Numbers 1:22 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.

  • Numbers 26:12–14 The sons of Simeon after their families: of Nemuel, the family of the Nemuelites; of Jamin, the family of the Jaminites; of Jachin, the family of the Jachinites;
  • Genesis 29:33 She conceived again, and bare a son, and said, "Because Yahweh has heard that I am hated, he has therefore given me this son also." She named him Simeon.
  • Genesis 34:25–30 It happened on the third day, when they were sore, that two of Jacob's sons, Simeon and Levi, Dinah's brothers, each took his sword, came upon the unsuspecting city, and killed all the males.
  • Genesis 42:24 He turned himself about from them, and wept, and he returned to them, and spoke to them, and took Simeon from among them, and bound him before their eyes.
  • Genesis 46:10 The sons of Simeon: Jemuel, Jamin, Ohad, Jachin, Zohar, and Shaul the son of a Canaanite woman.
  • Genesis 49:5–6 "Simeon and Levi are brothers; Weapons of violence are their swords.
  • Numbers 2:12–13 "Those who encamp next to him shall be the tribe of Simeon. The prince of the children of Simeon shall be Shelumiel the son of Zurishaddai.

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Hebrew and Greek witnesses Masoretic Hebrew ↔ Greek Septuagint

The same verse in the two great witnesses to the Old Testament, shown verse-for-verse.

These are two independent witnesses, not word-aligned to each other, and the Septuagint is shown in lemma (dictionary) form.

Hebrew Numbers 1:22 Masoretic · Westminster Leningrad Codex

לִבְנֵ֣י שִׁמְע֔וֹן תּוֹלְדֹתָ֥ם לְמִשְׁפְּחֹתָ֖ם לְבֵ֣ית אֲבֹתָ֑ם פְּקֻדָ֗יו בְּמִסְפַּ֤ר שֵׁמוֹת֙ לְגֻלְגְּלֹתָ֔ם כָּל זָכָ֗ר מִבֶּ֨ן עֶשְׂרִ֤ים שָׁנָה֙ וָמַ֔עְלָה כֹּ֖ל יֹצֵ֥א צָבָֽא

Of the children of Simeon, their generations, by their families, by their fathers' houses, those who were numbered of it, according to the number of the names, one by one, every male from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go out to war;

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Greek LXX Numbers 1:22 Septuagint · lemma form

ὁ υἱός συμεων κατά συγγένεια αὐτός κατά δῆμος αὐτός κατά οἶκος πατριά αὐτός κατά ἀριθμός ὄνομα αὐτός κατά κεφαλή αὐτός πᾶς ἀρσενικός ἀπό εἰκοσαετής καί ἐπάνω πᾶς ὁ ἐκπορεύομαι ἐν ὁ δύναμις

For the children of Symeon according to their kindred, according to their divisions, according to the houses of their families, according to the number of their names, according to their polls, all males from twenty years old and upward, every one that goes out with the host,

LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) · Public Domain

Hebrew: Westminster Leningrad Codex (CC BY 4.0). Greek: Septuagint (public domain); English from LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) (Public Domain). How the Septuagint differs from the Hebrew →

Targum (Aramaic paraphrase)

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The Targum is the ancient Jewish Aramaic paraphrase of the Hebrew Scriptures — an interpretive translation, not the Hebrew text itself. Onkelos (literal) and Pseudo-Jonathan (expansive) render the Torah, and Jonathan the Prophets. Coverage is partial: where no permissively-licensed English translation exists for a verse, only the Aramaic is shown. This is verse-level text, not a word-by-word alignment to the Hebrew.

  1. Targum Onkelos Torah (Genesis–Deuteronomy)
    לִבְנֵי שִׁמְעוֹן תּוּלְדַתְהוֹן לְזַרְעֲיַתְהוֹן לְבֵית אֲבָהַתְהוֹן מִנְיָנוֹהִי בְּמִנְיַן שְׁמָהָן לְגֻלְגְלַתְהוֹן כָּל דְכוּרָא מִבַּר עַשְׂרִין שְׁנִין וּלְעֵלָא כֹּל נָפֵק חֵילָא

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    Targum Onkelos — Aramaic: “Onkelos Genesis” (public domain); “Onkelos Exodus” (public domain); “Onkelos Leviticus” (public domain); “Onkelos Numbers” (public domain); “Onkelos Deuteronomy” (public domain). English: “Sefaria Community Translation” (CC0 1.0 (public-domain dedication)); “J.W. Etheridge. The Targums of Onkelos and Jonathan Ben Uzziel on the Pentateuch. London: Longmans, Green, 1862” (public domain). Text via Sefaria.

  2. Targum Pseudo-Jonathan Torah (Genesis–Deuteronomy)
    לִבְנוֹי דְשִׁמְעוֹן יִחוּסֵיהוֹן לִגְנִיסַתְהוֹן לְבֵית אַבְהַתְהוֹן בְּמִנְיַן שְׁמָהָן לְגֻלְגְלַתְהוֹן כָּל דְכוּרָא מִבַּר עַשְרִין שְׁנִין וּלְעֵילָא כָּל נָפִיק חֵילָא

    Of the families of the Beni Shemeon, after the generations of their fathers' house in the number of their names by their polls, every male from twenty years and upward, every one going forth in the host,

    Targum Pseudo-Jonathan — Aramaic: “Targum Jonathan on Genesis” (public domain); “Targum Jonathan on Exodus” (public domain); “Targum Jonathan on Leviticus” (public domain); “Targum Jonathan on Numbers” (public domain); “Targum Jonathan on Deuteronomy” (public domain). English: “The Targum of Jonathan ben Uzziel, trans. J. W. Etheridge, London, 1862” (public domain). Text via Sefaria.

Commentary

Notes on Numbers 1:22 from classic Christian and Jewish commentators (each source and its license shown beneath its notes). The classic Christian expositions comment on the surrounding passage and are grouped to its opening verse, so a note may address several verses; the Jewish commentaries on the Tanakh (Rashi and others) are per-verse, so they appear only where the commentator wrote on this verse.

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unfoldingWord translationNotes

Door43 World Missions Community

were counted all the names of each and every man ... clans and families

The phrase "were counted" can be stated in active form. This long phrase is repeated multiple times in the census. See how you translated it in Numbers 1:20. AT: "they counted all the names of each and every man ... clans and families" (See: Active or Passive)

59,300 men

"fifty-nine thousand three hundred men" (See: Numbers)

translationWords

Simeon

clan

tribe

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Numbers, in the Pentateuch, opens this verse with 19 words (17 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is gulgôleth (“skull”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.

Discussion questions

  1. The word gulgôleth carries the sense “skull.” How does it shape the verse?
  2. How does Exodus 16:16, which shares the word «skull», read alongside this verse?
  3. What does the repetition of “son” (2× in this one verse) do in this verse?
  4. The translations on this page render this verse differently — a whole-verse word diff, not a word-by-word alignment. What might account for the different wordings?
  5. «פְּקֻדָ֗יו» is a Qal Participle Passive verb. How does that grammatical form shape the action described?

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