Numbers 2:14

Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex)

English Translation

"The tribe of Gad: and the prince of the children of Gad shall be Eliasaph the son of Reuel.

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אֶלְיָסָ֖ף

ʼElyâçâph

H460

“Eliasaph”

Noun, Proper

Appears 6× in the Hebrew Bible
First appears at Numbers 1:14

Full BDB Definition

Origin: from H410 and H3254

TWOT: None

Eliasaph = "God has added" - a Gadite chief in the wilderness census - a head of the Gershonites

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
6: distinct lemmas
Pentateuch: section

Notable vocabulary

The rarest word here is אֶלְיָסָ֖ף Eliasaph H460 — appearing just 6 times in the whole Hebrew Bible.

Shared distinctive vocabulary

אֶלְיָסָ֖ף Eliasaph H460 occurs in 6 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:

Grammatical profile

8 nouns

Repetition

Words recur within this verse — often emphatic in Hebrew:

גָּ֑ד Gad H1410 ×2
לִבְנֵ֣י son H1121 ×2

Hebrew & Septuagint length

In English translation the verse runs 19 words from the Hebrew and 26 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.

Cross-references

Topical passages linked to Numbers 2:14 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.

Numbers 1:14 Of Gad: Eliasaph the son of Deuel.
Numbers 7:42 On the sixth day, Eliasaph the son of Deuel, prince of the children of Gad
Numbers 7:47 and for the sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five male goats, and five male lambs a year old. This was the offering of Eliasaph the son of Deuel.
Numbers 10:20 Over the host of the tribe of the children of Gad was Eliasaph the son of Deuel.

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 2:14 Masoretic · Westminster Leningrad Codex

וְמַטֵּ֖ה גָּ֑ד וְנָשִׂיא֙ לִבְנֵ֣י גָ֔ד אֶלְיָסָ֖ף בֶּן רְעוּאֵֽל

"The tribe of Gad: and the prince of the children of Gad shall be Eliasaph the son of Reuel.

World English Bible · Public Domain

Greek LXX Numbers 2:14 Septuagint · lemma form

καί ὁ παρα ἐνβάλλω ἔχω αὐτός φυλή γαδ καί ὁ ἄρχων ὁ υἱός γαδ ελισαφ υἱός ραγουηλ

And they that encamp next to them shall be the tribe of Gad; and the prince of the sons of Gad, Elisaph the son of Raguel.

LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) · Public Domain

On this verse, The Pulpit Commentary discusses the Septuagint’s reading. Read the note in Commentary ↓

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)

וְשִׁבְטָא דְגָד וְרַבָּא לִבְנֵי גָד אֶלְיָסָף בַּר רְעוּאֵל

(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)

וְשִׁבְטָא דְגָד וְרַבָּא דַהֲוָה מְמַנֵי עַל חֵילְוַת שִׁבְטָא בְּנֵי גָד אֶלְיָסָף בַּר רְעוּאֵל

The tribe of Gad: the Rabba set over the host of the tribe of the Beni Gad was Eljasaph bar Dehuel.

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 2:14 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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Geneva Bible (1599)

Geneva Bible translators

Or, Reuel.

Geneva Bible (1599) marginal notes — public domain. Text via Bolls.life.

John Gill's Exposition

Then the tribe of Gad,.... Who was placed on the other side of Reuben's standard, and according to the former direction he must be before, and Simeon behind; and Gad being the eldest son of Leah's handmaid Zilpah, is fitly placed under Leah's firstborn, and being the son of an handmaid, could not object to his situation:

and the captain of the sons of Gad shall be Eliasaph the son of Reuel: who is called Deuel, Num 1:14. The letters "resh", and "daleth", being similar, are sometimes put one for the other, of which there are other instances, as in Gen 10:3, compared with Ch1 1:6.

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

Matthew Poole's English Annotations

Called Deuel, Num 1:14, the Hebrew letters daleth and resh being very like, and oft changed, as appears by comparing Gen 10:3, with 1Ch 1:6; Gen 36:26,38, with 1Ch 1:41,50.

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible (1683–1685) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword/MySword module.

The Pulpit Commentary

Reuel. Probably an error of transcription for Deuel, which actually appears here in many MSS. The Septuagint, however, has Raguel. (see Num_1:14 Num_7:42, etc.) The error is utterly unimportant, except as proving the possibility of errors in the sacred text.

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 telling Moses where each tribe and its army will camp around the tent of meeting. (See: Numbers)

Eliasaph son of Deuel

See how you translated this man's name in Numbers 1:14.

45,650

"forty-five thousand six hundred and fifty." This refers to the number of men. AT: "45,650 men" (See: Numbers and Ellipsis)

translationWords

Gad

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Lesson kit

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Numbers, in the Pentateuch, opens this verse with 8 words (6 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is ʼElyâçâph (“Eliasaph”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.

Discussion questions

How does “Eliasaph” (ʼElyâçâph) shape what this verse is saying?
How does Numbers 1:14, which shares the word «Eliasaph», read alongside this verse?
What does the repetition of “Gad” (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?
Compare how Geneva Bible (1599) and John Gill's Exposition read this verse. Where do they agree or differ?

Things to notice

These translations choose different wording for 6 words in this verse.
“Gad” occurs 2× in this single verse.
6 distinct Hebrew lemmas span 8 words in this verse.