Numbers 10:19

Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex)

English Translation

Over the host of the tribe of the children of Simeon was Shelumiel the son of Zurishaddai.

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שְׁלֻֽמִיאֵ֖ל

Shᵉlumîyʼêl

H8017

“Shelumiel”

Noun, Proper

Appears 5× in the Hebrew Bible
First appears at Numbers 1:6

Full BDB Definition

Origin: from H7965 and H410

TWOT: None

Shelumiel = "friend of God" - son of Zurishaddai and prince of the tribe of Simeon at the time of the exodus

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 →

9: words
7: distinct lemmas
Pentateuch: section

Notable vocabulary

The rarest word here is שְׁלֻֽמִיאֵ֖ל Shelumiel H8017 — appearing just 5 times in the whole Hebrew Bible.

Shared distinctive vocabulary

שְׁלֻֽמִיאֵ֖ל Shelumiel H8017 occurs in 5 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:

Grammatical profile

8 nouns
1 preposition

Repetition

Words recur within this verse — often emphatic in Hebrew:

בְּנֵ֣י son H1121 ×2
צוּרִֽי Zurishaddai H6701 ×2

Hebrew & Septuagint length

In English translation the verse runs 17 words from the Hebrew and 17 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 9 Hebrew tokens and 10 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 10:19 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.

Numbers 1:6 Of Simeon: Shelumiel the son of Zurishaddai.
Numbers 7:36 On the fifth day Shelumiel the son of Zurishaddai, prince of the children of Simeon

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 10:19 Masoretic · Westminster Leningrad Codex

וְעַ֨ל צְבָ֔א מַטֵּ֖ה בְּנֵ֣י שִׁמְע֑וֹן שְׁלֻֽמִיאֵ֖ל בֶּן צוּרִֽי שַׁדָּֽי

Over the host of the tribe of the children of Simeon was Shelumiel the son of Zurishaddai.

World English Bible · Public Domain

Greek LXX Numbers 10:19 Septuagint · lemma form

καί ἐπί ὁ δύναμις φυλή υἱός συμεων σαλαμιηλ υἱός σουρισαδαι

And over the host of the tribe of the sons of Symeon, was Salamiel son of Surisadai.

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)

וְעַל חֵילָא דְשִׁבְטָּא דִבְנֵי שִׁמְעוֹן שְׁלֻמִיאֵל בַּר צוּרִישַׁדָי

(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)

וְרַבָּא דְהַוָה מְמַנֵי עַל חֵילְוַות שִׁבְטָא דִבְנֵי שִׁמְעוֹן שְׁלֻמִיאֵל בַּר צוּרִי שַׁדָי

the Rabba of the Beni Shemeon, Shelumiel bar Zurishaddai;

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 10:19 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 →

John Gill's Exposition

And the Kohathites set forward,.... After the standard of the camps of Reuben, and between that and the standard of the camp of Ephraim, to, which there is an allusion in Psa 80:2,

bearing the sanctuary, or the holy things, as Jarchi; the ark, as Aben Ezra; though not that only, which indeed might be eminently called so, it standing in the most holy place, over which were the mercy seat and cherubim, the residence of the divine Majesty; but all the holy things in the holy place, the candlestick, shewbread table, and the two altars, the altar of incense in the holy place, and the altar of burnt offerings in the court these they bore on their shoulders, and had no wagons allowed for their assistance:

and the other did set up the tabernacle against they came; that is, the sons of Gershon and Merari, who went before between the standard of Judah and the standard of Reuben, carrying the heavier and more cumbersome parts of the tabernacle; which, when Judah pitched their tents, at the signal of the cloud, they immediately put together, and erected, and got it ready, by such time as the Kohathites came up to them, that so the ark and other holy things might be at once put into it, and set in their proper places.

John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible (1746–1763) — public domain (CC PDM 1.0). Text via the HelloAO Bible API.

Lesson kit

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Numbers, in the Pentateuch, opens this verse with 9 words (7 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is Shᵉlumîyʼêl (“Shelumiel”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.

Discussion questions

How does “Shelumiel” (Shᵉlumîyʼêl) shape what this verse is saying?
How does Numbers 1:6, which shares the word «Shelumiel», read alongside this verse?
What does the repetition of “son” (2× in this one verse) do in this verse?
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?

Things to notice

This verse counts 9 Hebrew ↔ 10 Greek words.
These translations choose different wording for 4 words in this verse.
“son” occurs 2× in this single verse.
7 distinct Hebrew lemmas span 9 words in this verse.