Numbers 1:7

Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex)

English Translation

Of Judah: Nahshon the son of Amminadab.

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נַחְשׁ֖וֹן

Nachshôwn

H5177

“Nahshon”

Noun, Proper

Appears 10× in the Hebrew Bible
First appears at Exodus 6:23

Full BDB Definition

Origin: from H5172

TWOT: None

Nahshon = "enchanter" - son of Amminadab and prince of the Judah at the first numbering in the wilderness; 5th in descent from Judah in the genealogy of Christ

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 →

4: words
4: distinct lemmas
Pentateuch: section

Notable vocabulary

The rarest word here is נַחְשׁ֖וֹן Nahshon H5177 — appearing just 10 times in the whole Hebrew Bible.

Shared distinctive vocabulary

נַחְשׁ֖וֹן Nahshon H5177 occurs in 9 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:

Grammatical profile

4 nouns

Hebrew & Septuagint length

In English translation the verse runs 7 words from the Hebrew and 7 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 4 Hebrew tokens and 5 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

Topical passages linked to Numbers 1:7 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.

Luke 3:32 the son of Jesse, the son of Obed, the son of Boaz, the son of Salmon, the son of Nahshon,
Numbers 2:3 Those who encamp on the east side toward the sunrise shall be of the standard of the camp of Judah, according to their divisions: and the prince of the children of Judah shall be Nahshon the son of Amminadab.
Numbers 7:12 He who offered his offering the first day was Nahshon the son of Amminadab, of the tribe of Judah,
Numbers 10:14 In the first [place] the standard of the camp of the children of Judah set forward according to their hosts: and over his host was Nahshon the son of Amminadab.
Ruth 4:18 Now this is the history of the generations of Perez: Perez became the father of Hezron,
Ruth 4:20 and Amminadab became the father of Nahshon, and Nahshon became the father of Salmon,
1 Chronicles 2:10–11 Ram became the father of Amminadab, and Amminadab became the father of Nahshon, prince of the children of Judah;
Matthew 1:2–5 Abraham became the father of Isaac. Isaac became the father of Jacob. Jacob became the father of Judah and his brothers.

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.

Hebrew Numbers 1:7 Masoretic · Westminster Leningrad Codex

לִֽיהוּדָ֕ה נַחְשׁ֖וֹן בֶּן עַמִּינָדָֽב

Of Judah: Nahshon the son of Amminadab.

World English Bible · Public Domain

Greek LXX Numbers 1:7 Septuagint · lemma form

ὁ ιουδα ναασσων υἱός αμιναδαβ

Of Juda, Naasson the son of Aminadab.

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.

Targum Onkelos Torah (Genesis–Deuteronomy)

לִיהוּדָה נַחְשׁוֹן בַּר עַמִינָדָב

(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.
Targum Pseudo-Jonathan Torah (Genesis–Deuteronomy)

לִיהוּדָה אַמַרְכּוֹל נַחְשׁוֹן בַּר עַמִינָדָב

the prince of Jehudah, Nachshon bar Amminadab:

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 1:7 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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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

gen. ed. J. J. S. Perowne

7. Nahshon the son of Amminaaab] See Rth_4:20, Mat_1:4.

The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges (gen. ed. J. J. S. Perowne; Cambridge University Press, 1878–1918) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

The Pulpit Commentary

Nahshon the brother-in-law of Aaron, (Exo_6:23) and ancestor of David and of Jesus Christ. (Mat_1:4)

The Pulpit Commentary (1880–1919), ed. H.D.M. Spence-Jones & Joseph S. Exell — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

unfoldingWord translationNotes

Door43 World Missions Community

General Information:

Yahweh continues to list the leaders of the tribes to Moses. (See: How to Translate Names)

translationWords

Judah

Issachar

Zebulun

unfoldingWord translationNotes — © Distant Shores Media and the Door43 World Missions Community, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Source: git.door43.org/Door43/en_tn.

Lesson kit

Teaching starters — assembled from the data on this page, not authored interpretation. Every prompt links to the verse data it draws on. Edit before teaching.

Numbers, in the Pentateuch, opens this verse with 4 words (4 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is Nachshôwn (“Nahshon”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.

Discussion questions

The word Nachshôwn carries the sense “Nahshon.” How does it shape the verse?
Exodus 6:23 shares the word «Nahshon» with this verse. How do the two illuminate each other?
Reading how The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges and The Pulpit Commentary read this verse, where do the two commentators agree and where do they part?

Things to notice

This verse counts 4 Hebrew ↔ 5 Greek words.
4 distinct Hebrew lemmas span 4 words in this verse.