וְעַ֨ל צְבָ֔א מַטֵּ֖ה בְּנֵ֣י מְנַשֶּׁ֑ה גַּמְלִיאֵ֖ל בֶּן פְּדָה צֽוּר
Over the host of the tribe of the children of Manasseh was Gamaliel the son of Pedahzur.
World English Bible · Public Domain
Numbers 10:23
Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex) Numbers 10:23 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
Over the host of the tribe of the children of Manasseh was Gamaliel the son of Pedahzur.
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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.
Each is an independent rendering of the whole verse — the interlinear is not word-aligned to these translations.
Highlighted words mark where these versions differ — a whole-verse word diff, not a word-by-word alignment.
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World English Bible Public Domain
Over the host of the tribe of the children of Manasseh was Gamaliel the son of Pedahzur.
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King James Version Public Domain
And over the host of the tribe of the children of Manasseh was Gamaliel the son of Pedahzur.
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
and over the army of the tribe of the sons of Manasseh Gamaliel, the son of Pedahzur,
unfoldingWord Literal Text — © unfoldingWord, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Word-aligned USFM3 via Door43 (git.door43.org/unfoldingWord/en_ult).
Show all 18 translations
Every available English version of this verse, each an independent rendering of the whole verse.
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World English Bible Public Domain
Over the host of the tribe of the children of Manasseh was Gamaliel the son of Pedahzur.
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Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Gamaliel son of Pedahzur was over the division of the tribe of Manasseh,
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Majority Standard Bible Public Domain
Gamaliel son of Pedahzur was over the division of the tribe of Manasseh,
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King James Version Public Domain
And over the host of the tribe of the children of Manasseh was Gamaliel the son of Pedahzur.
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American Standard Version (1901) Public Domain
And over the host of the tribe of the children of Manasseh was Gamaliel the son of Pedahzur.
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Revised Version (1885) Public Domain
And over the host of the tribe of the children of Manasseh was Gamaliel the son of Pedahzur.
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Geneva Bible (1599) Public Domain
And ouer the band of the tribe of ye sonnes of Manasseh was Gamliel the sonne of Pedazur.
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Douay-Rheims (1899) Public Domain
And in the tribe of the sons of Manasses, the prince was Gamaliel the son of Phadassur.
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Young's Literal Translation Public Domain
And over the host of the tribe of the sons of Manasseh `is' Gamalial son of Pedahzur.
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Literal Standard Version CC BY-SA 4.0
And over the host of the tribe of the sons of Manasseh [is] Gamalial son of Pedahzur.
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Unlocked Literal Bible CC BY-SA 4.0
Gamaliel son of Pedahzur led the army of the tribe of Manasseh's descendants.
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
and over the army of the tribe of the sons of Manasseh Gamaliel, the son of Pedahzur,
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Darby Bible Public Domain
and over the host of the tribe of the children of Manasseh was Gamaliel the son of Pedahzur;
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World Messianic Bible Public Domain
Gamaliel the son of Pedahzur was over the army of the tribe of the children of Manasseh.
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Webster's Bible Public Domain
And over the host of the tribe of the children of Manasseh was Gamaliel the son of Pedahzur.
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Free Bible Version CC BY-SA 4.0
Gamaliel, son of Pedahzur, was in charge of the tribal division of Manasseh,
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Bible in Basic English Public Domain
At the head of the army of the children of Manasseh was Gamaliel, the son of Pedahzur.
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JPS Tanakh (1917) Public Domain
And over the host of the tribe of the children of Manasseh was Gamaliel the son of Pedahzur.
Literal Standard Version (2020), Covenant Press — licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Text via the HelloAO Bible API (eBible.org). Unlocked Literal Bible (unfoldingWord) — licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Text via the HelloAO Bible API (eBible.org). unfoldingWord Literal Text — © unfoldingWord, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Word-aligned USFM3 via Door43 (git.door43.org/unfoldingWord/en_ult). Free Bible Version, Dr. Jonathan Gallagher — licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Text via the HelloAO Bible API (eBible.org).
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גַּמְלִיאֵ֖ל
Gamlîyʼêl
H1583
“Gamaliel”
Noun, Proper
- Appears 5× in the Hebrew Bible
- First appears at Numbers 1:10
- Part of Speech
- Noun
- Type
- Proper
Full BDB Definition
Gamaliel = "reward of God"
- son of Pedahzur and the leader of the tribe of Manasseh in the wilderness
- וְעַ֨ל ʻal H5921 “and · upon” Conjunction + Preposition
- צְבָ֔א tsâbâʼ H6635 “army of” Noun, Common, Both, Singular, Construct
- מַטֵּ֖ה maṭṭeh H4294 “staff of” Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct
- בְּנֵ֣י bên H1121 “sons of” Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Construct
- מְנַשֶּׁ֑ה Mᵉnashsheh H4519 “Manasseh” Noun, Proper
- גַּמְלִיאֵ֖ל Gamlîyʼêl H1583 “Gamaliel” Noun, Proper
- בֶּן bên H1121 “son of” Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct
- פְּדָה Pᵉdâhtsûwr H6301 “Pedahzur” Noun, Proper
- צֽוּר Pᵉdâhtsûwr H6301 “Pedahzur” Noun, Proper
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 גַּמְלִיאֵ֖ל Gamaliel H1583 — appearing just 5 times in the whole Hebrew Bible.
Shared distinctive vocabulary
גַּמְלִיאֵ֖ל Gamaliel H1583 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:
Hebrew & Septuagint length
In English translation the verse runs 17 words from the Hebrew and 18 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 9 Hebrew tokens and 11 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
2Topical passages linked to Numbers 10:23 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.
- Numbers 1:10 Of the children of Joseph: Of Ephraim: Elishama the son of Ammihud. Of Manasseh: Gamaliel the son of Pedahzur.
- Numbers 7:54 On the eighth day Gamaliel the son of Pedahzur, prince of the children of Manasseh
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.
καί ἐπί ὁ δύναμις φυλή υἱός μανασσή γαμαλιηλ ὁ ὁ φαδασσουρ
And over the forces of the tribes of the sons of Manasse, was Gamaliel the son of Phadassur.
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)
וְעַל חֵילָא דְשִׁבְטָא דִבְנֵי מְנַשֶׁה גַמְלִיאֵל בַּר פְּדָהצוּר
(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)
וְרַבָּא דְהַוָה מְמַנֵי עַל חֵילְוַות שִׁבְטָא דִבְנֵי מְנַשֶׁה גַמְלִיאֵל בַּר פְּדָהצוּר
the Rabba of that of Menasheh, Gamaliel bar Pedazur;
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
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 9 words (7 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is Gamlîyʼêl (“Gamaliel”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.
Discussion questions
- The word Gamlîyʼêl carries the sense “Gamaliel.” How does it shape the verse?
- Numbers 1:10 shares the word «Gamaliel» with this verse. How do the two illuminate each other?
- “son” occurs 2× in this one verse. What is the effect of the repetition?
- 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?
- Reading how John Gill's Exposition and Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary read this verse, where do the two commentators agree and where do they part?
Things to notice
- This verse counts 9 Hebrew ↔ 11 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.
Commentary
Notes on Numbers 10:23 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
John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible (1746–1763) — public domain (CC PDM 1.0). Text via the HelloAO Bible API.
Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary
George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), Haydock's Catholic Family Bible and Commentary, 1859 edition — public domain. Excludes Psalms (Douay-Rheims chapter numbering differs from Protestant) and Deuterocanonical books (Catholic canon only).