Numbers 10:26

Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex)

English Translation

Over the host of the tribe of the children of Asher was Pagiel the son of Ochran.

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פַּגְעִיאֵ֖ל

Pagʻîyʼêl

H6295

“Pagiel”

Noun, Proper

Appears 5× in the Hebrew Bible
First appears at Numbers 1:13

Full BDB Definition

Origin: from H6294 and H410

TWOT: None

Pagiel = "event of God" - son of Ocran and chief of the tribe of Asher 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 →

8: words
7: distinct lemmas
Pentateuch: section

Notable vocabulary

The rarest word here is פַּגְעִיאֵ֖ל Pagiel H6295 — appearing just 5 times in the whole Hebrew Bible.

Shared distinctive vocabulary

פַּגְעִיאֵ֖ל Pagiel H6295 occurs in 5 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:

Grammatical profile

7 nouns
1 preposition

Repetition

A word recurs within this verse — often emphatic in Hebrew:

בְּנֵ֣י son H1121 ×2

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 8 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 10:26 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.

Numbers 1:13 Of Asher: Pagiel the son of Ochran.
Numbers 7:72 On the eleventh day Pagiel the son of Ochran, prince of the children of Asher

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Hebrew and Greek witnesses Masoretic Hebrew ↔ Greek Septuagint

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

Hebrew Numbers 10:26 Masoretic · Westminster Leningrad Codex

וְעַל צְבָ֔א מַטֵּ֖ה בְּנֵ֣י אָשֵׁ֑ר פַּגְעִיאֵ֖ל בֶּן עָכְרָֽן

Over the host of the tribe of the children of Asher was Pagiel the son of Ochran.

World English Bible · Public Domain

Greek LXX Numbers 10:26 Septuagint · lemma form

καί ἐπί ὁ δύναμις φυλή υἱός ασηρ φαγαιηλ υἱός εχραν

And over the forces of the tribe of the sons of Aser, was Phageel the son of Echran.

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 דְשִׁבְטָא דִבְנֵי אָשֵׁר פַּגְעִיאֵל בַּר עָכְרָן

(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 אָשֵׁר פַּגְעִיאֵל בַּר עָכְרָן

the Rabba of the tribe of Asher, Pagiel bar Achran;

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 10:26 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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John Gill's Exposition

And he said unto him, I will not go,.... Which was a very peremptory answer, he seemed determined, and at a point about it for the present, though it is, probable he afterwards changed his mind, like the young man in the parable, Mat 21:29,

but I will depart to mine own land, and to my kindred; which were prevailing motives with him, his native country, his relations, and father's house; to this resolution he came, both because of his substance, and because of his family, as Jarchi.

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 8 words (7 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is Pagʻîyʼêl (“Pagiel”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.

Discussion questions

How does “Pagiel” (Pagʻîyʼêl) shape what this verse is saying?
How does Numbers 1:13, which shares the word «Pagiel», read alongside this verse?
What does the repetition of “son” (2× in this one verse) do in this verse?
These translations render this verse differently; the difference is in the English rendering, not the original. What questions does that raise?

Things to notice

This verse counts 8 Hebrew ↔ 10 Greek words.
These translations choose different wording for 7 words in this verse.
“son” occurs 2× in this single verse.
7 distinct Hebrew lemmas span 8 words in this verse.