פְּקֻדֵיהֶ֖ם לְמַטֵּ֣ה בִנְיָמִ֑ן חֲמִשָּׁ֧ה וּשְׁלֹשִׁ֛ים אֶ֖לֶף וְאַרְבַּ֥ע מֵאֽוֹת
those who were numbered of them, of the tribe of Benjamin, were thirty-five thousand four hundred.
World English Bible · Public Domain
Numbers 1:37
Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex) Numbers 1:37 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.
English Translation
those who were numbered of them, of the tribe of Benjamin, were thirty-five thousand four hundred.
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The same verse in 3 English versions, stacked beneath the original-language interlinear above. Click any original word for its lexicon entry.
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World English Bible Public Domain
those who were numbered of them, of the tribe of Benjamin, were thirty-five thousand four hundred.
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King James Version Public Domain
Those that were numbered of them, even of the tribe of Benjamin, were thirty and five thousand and four hundred.
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
their counted ones of the tribe of Benjamin 35,400.
unfoldingWord Literal Text — © unfoldingWord, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Word-aligned USFM3 via Door43 (git.door43.org/unfoldingWord/en_ult).
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Every available English version of this verse, each an independent rendering of the whole verse.
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World English Bible Public Domain
those who were numbered of them, of the tribe of Benjamin, were thirty-five thousand four hundred.
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Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
those registered to the tribe of Benjamin numbered 35,400.
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Majority Standard Bible Public Domain
those registered to the tribe of Benjamin numbered 35,400.
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King James Version Public Domain
Those that were numbered of them, even of the tribe of Benjamin, were thirty and five thousand and four hundred.
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American Standard Version (1901) Public Domain
those that were numbered of them, of the tribe of Benjamin, were thirty and five thousand and four hundred.
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Revised Version (1885) Public Domain
those that were numbered of them, of the tribe of Benjamin, were thirty and five thousand and four hundred.
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Geneva Bible (1599) Public Domain
The nomber of them also of the tribe of Beniamin was fiue and thirtie thousande and foure hundreth.
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Douay-Rheims (1899) Public Domain
Thirty-five thousand four hundred.
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Young's Literal Translation Public Domain
their numbered ones, for the tribe of Benjamin, `are' five and thirty thousand and four hundred.
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Literal Standard Version CC BY-SA 4.0
their numbered ones, for the tribe of Benjamin, [are] thirty-five thousand and four hundred.
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Unlocked Literal Bible CC BY-SA 4.0
They counted 35,400 men from the tribe of Benjamin.
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
their counted ones of the tribe of Benjamin 35,400.
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Darby Bible Public Domain
those that were numbered of them, of the tribe of Benjamin, were thirty-five thousand four hundred.
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World Messianic Bible Public Domain
those who were counted of them, of the tribe of Benjamin, were thirty-five thousand four hundred.
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Webster's Bible Public Domain
Those that were numbered of them, even of the tribe of Benjamin, were thirty and five thousand and four hundred.
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Free Bible Version CC BY-SA 4.0
from the tribe of Benjamin, totaled 35,400.
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Bible in Basic English Public Domain
Thirty-five thousand, four hundred of the tribe of Benjamin were numbered.
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JPS Tanakh (1917) Public Domain
those that were numbered of them, of the tribe of Benjamin, were thirty and five thousand and four hundred.
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בִנְיָמִ֑ן
Binyâmîyn
H1144
“Benjamin”
Noun, Proper
- Appears 167× in the Hebrew Bible
- First appears at Genesis 35:18
- Part of Speech
- Noun
- Type
- Proper
Full BDB Definition
Benjamin = "son of the right hand"
- Jacob's and Rachel's youngest son, Joseph's full brother
- son of Bilhan, great-grandson of Benjamin
- a Benjamite, one of the sons of Harim, in the time of Ezra who had taken a strange wife
- the tribe descended from Benjamin, the son of Jacob
- פְּקֻדֵיהֶ֖ם pâqad H6485 “visited · them” Verb, Qal, Participle Passive, Masculine, Plural, Construct + Suffix, Personal, 3rd Person, Masculine, Plural
- לְמַטֵּ֣ה maṭṭeh H4294 “to/for · staff of” Preposition + Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct
- בִנְיָמִ֑ן Binyâmîyn H1144 “Benjamin” Noun, Proper
- חֲמִשָּׁ֧ה châmêsh H2568 “five” Adjective, Cardinal number, Masculine, Singular, Absolute
- וּשְׁלֹשִׁ֛ים shᵉlôwshîym H7970 “and · thirty” Conjunction + Adjective, Cardinal number, Both, Plural, Absolute
- אֶ֖לֶף ʼeleph H505 “thousand” Adjective, Cardinal number, Both, Singular, Absolute
- וְאַרְבַּ֥ע ʼarbaʻ H702 “and · four” Conjunction + Adjective, Cardinal number, Feminine, Singular, Absolute
- מֵאֽוֹת mêʼâh H3967 “hundred” Adjective, Cardinal number, Both, Plural, Absolute
About this verse
These counts appear in no published source. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged text and Lemma’s own curated glosses. What Lemma adds →
- 8
- words
- 8
- distinct lemmas
- Pentateuch
- section
Grammatical profile
- 1 verb
- 2 nouns
- 5 adjectives
Verb forms
- פְּקֻדֵיהֶ֖ם Qal · Participle Passive
Hebrew & Septuagint length
In English translation the verse runs 16 words from the Hebrew and 19 from the Septuagint (LXX English) — closely comparable.
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 8 Hebrew tokens and 15 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
4Topical passages linked to Numbers 1:37 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.
- Numbers 26:41 These are the sons of Benjamin after their families; and those who were numbered of them were forty-five thousand six hundred.
- Numbers 2:23 His host, and those who were numbered of them, were thirty-five thousand four hundred.
- Judges 20:44–46 There fell of Benjamin eighteen thousand men; all these [were] men of valor.
- 2 Chronicles 17:17 Of Benjamin: Eliada a mighty man of valor, and with him two hundred thousand armed with bow and shield;
Cross-references courtesy of OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0).
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.
ὁ ἐπίσκεψις αὐτός ἐκ ὁ φυλή γαδ πέντε καί τεσσαράκοντα χιλιάς καί ἑξακόσιοι καί πεντήκοντα
the numbering of them of the tribe of Gad, was forty and five thousand and six hundred and fifty.
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)
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.
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Targum Onkelos Torah (Genesis–Deuteronomy)
מִנְיָנֵיהוֹן לְשִׁבְטָא דְבִנְיָמִן תְּלָתִין וְחַמְשָׁא אַלְפִין וְאַרְבַּע מְאָה
(no public-domain English translation for this verse)
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.
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Targum Pseudo-Jonathan Torah (Genesis–Deuteronomy)
סְכוּמְהוֹן לְשִׁבְטָא דְבִנְיָמִין תְּלָתִין וְחַמְשָׁא אַלְפִין וְאַרְבַּע מְאָה
The sum of the tribe of Benjamin, thirty five thousand four hundred:
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.
Lesson kit
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Numbers, in the Pentateuch, opens this verse with 8 words (8 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is Binyâmîyn (“Benjamin”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.
Discussion questions
- What does “Benjamin” (Binyâmîyn) contribute to the verse as a whole?
- How does Numbers 26:41, which shares this passage’s theme, read alongside this verse?
- These translations render this verse differently. What is at stake in choosing one wording over another?
- «פְּקֻדֵיהֶ֖ם» is a Qal Participle Passive verb. How does that grammatical form shape the action described?
- Compare how Joseph Benson's Commentary and Matthew Poole's English Annotations read this verse. Where do they agree or differ?
Things to notice
- This verse counts 8 Hebrew ↔ 15 Greek words.
- These translations choose different wording for 12 words in this verse.
- 8 distinct Hebrew lemmas span 8 words in this verse.
Commentary
Notes on Numbers 1:37 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.
Lemma curates 59 commentaries, every one of them public domain or Creative Commons licensed, each selected and text-cleaned for this edition rather than reprinted as found. About our sources →
Joseph Benson's Commentary
Joseph Benson's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments (1811–1818) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
Matthew Poole's English Annotations
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible (1683–1685) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword/MySword module.
John Wesley's Explanatory Notes
John Wesley, Explanatory Notes Upon the Whole Bible (1754–1765) — public domain. Text via the GEBible commentary corpus.