וּצְבָא֖וֹ וּפְקֻדֵיהֶ֑ם אֶחָ֧ד וְאַרְבָּעִ֛ים אֶ֖לֶף וַחֲמֵ֥שׁ מֵאֽוֹת
His division, and those who were numbered of them, were forty-one thousand and five hundred.
World English Bible · Public Domain
Numbers 2:28
Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex) Numbers 2:28 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
His division, and those who were numbered of them, were forty-one thousand and five hundred.
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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
His division, and those who were numbered of them, were forty-one thousand and five hundred.
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King James Version Public Domain
And his host, and those that were numbered of them, were forty and one thousand and five hundred.
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
and his army and their counted ones 41,500.
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
His division, and those who were numbered of them, were forty-one thousand and five hundred.
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Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
and his division numbers 41,500.
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Majority Standard Bible Public Domain
and his division numbers 41,500.
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King James Version Public Domain
And his host, and those that were numbered of them, were forty and one thousand and five hundred.
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American Standard Version (1901) Public Domain
And his host, and those that were numbered of them, were forty and one thousand and five hundred.
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Revised Version (1885) Public Domain
and his host, and those that were numbered of them, were forty and one thousand and five hundred:
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Geneva Bible (1599) Public Domain
And his host and the nomber of them were one and fourtie thousand and fiue hundreth.
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Douay-Rheims (1899) Public Domain
The whole army of his fighting men, that were numbered, were forty-one thousand five hundred.
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Young's Literal Translation Public Domain
and his host, and their numbered ones, `are' one and forty thousand and five hundred.
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Literal Standard Version CC BY-SA 4.0
and his host, and their numbered ones, [are] forty-one thousand and five hundred.
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Unlocked Literal Bible CC BY-SA 4.0
The number in his division is 41,500.
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
and his army and their counted ones 41,500.
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Darby Bible Public Domain
and his host, even those that were numbered of them, forty-one thousand five hundred.
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World Messianic Bible Public Domain
His division, and those who were counted of them, were forty-one thousand five hundred.
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Webster's Bible Public Domain
And his host, and those that were numbered of them, were forty and one thousand and five hundred.
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Free Bible Version CC BY-SA 4.0
and he has 41,500 men.
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Bible in Basic English Public Domain
The number of his army was forty-one thousand, five hundred;
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JPS Tanakh (1917) Public Domain
and his host, and those that were numbered of them, forty and one thousand and five hundred;
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וְאַרְבָּעִ֛ים
ʼarbâʻîym
H705
“and · forty”
Conjunction + Adjective, Cardinal number, Both, Plural, Absolute
- Appears 135× in the Hebrew Bible
- First appears at Genesis 5:13
- Part of Speech
- Conjunction + Adjective
- Type
- Cardinal number
- Gender
- Both
- Number
- Plural
- State
- Absolute
Full BDB Definition
forty
- וּצְבָא֖וֹ tsâbâʼ H6635 “and · army · his” Conjunction + Noun, Common, Both, Singular, Construct + Suffix, Personal, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular
- וּפְקֻדֵיהֶ֑ם pâqad H6485 “and · visited · them” Conjunction + Verb, Qal, Participle Passive, Masculine, Plural, Construct + Suffix, Personal, 3rd Person, Masculine, Plural
- אֶחָ֧ד ʼechâd H259 “one” Adjective, Cardinal number, Masculine, Singular, Absolute
- וְאַרְבָּעִ֛ים ʼarbâʻîym H705 “and · forty” Conjunction + Adjective, Cardinal number, Both, Plural, Absolute
- אֶ֖לֶף ʼeleph H505 “thousand” Adjective, Cardinal number, Both, Singular, Absolute
- וַחֲמֵ֥שׁ châmêsh H2568 “and · five” Conjunction + Adjective, Cardinal number, Feminine, Singular, Absolute
- מֵאֽוֹת mêʼâh H3967 “hundred” Adjective, Cardinal number, Both, Plural, Absolute
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 →
- 7
- words
- 7
- distinct lemmas
- Pentateuch
- section
Grammatical profile
- 1 verb
- 1 noun
- 5 adjectives
Verb forms
- וּפְקֻדֵיהֶ֑ם Qal · Participle Passive
Hebrew & Septuagint length
In English translation the verse runs 15 words from the Hebrew and 11 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 7 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
2Topical passages linked to Numbers 2:28 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.
- Numbers 1:41 those who were numbered of them, of the tribe of Asher, were forty-one thousand five hundred.
- Numbers 26:47 These are the families of the sons of Asher according to those who were numbered of them, fifty-three thousand and four hundred.
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.
δύναμις αὐτός ὁ ἐπισκέπτω εἷς καί τεσσαράκοντα χιλιάς καί πεντακόσιοι
His forces that were numbered, were forty-one thousand and five hundred.
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)
וְחֵילֵהּ וּמִנְיָנֵיהוֹן אַרְבְּעִין וְחַד אַלְפִין וַחֲמֵשׁ מְאָה
(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)
וְחֵילֵיהּ וּסְכוּמְהוֹן דְשִׁבְטֵיהּ אַרְבְּעִין וְחַד אַלְפִין וַחֲמֵשׁ מְאָה
and the numbers forty-one thousand five hundred.
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 7 words (7 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is ʼarbâʻîym (“forty”). Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.
Discussion questions
- The word ʼarbâʻîym carries the sense “forty.” How does it shape the verse?
- Numbers 1:41 shares this passage’s theme. How do the two illuminate each other?
- These translations render this verse differently; the difference is in the English rendering, not the original. What questions does that raise?
- The verb «וּפְקֻדֵיהֶ֑ם» is Qal Participle Passive. How does its form color the action?
Things to notice
- This verse counts 7 Hebrew ↔ 10 Greek words.
- These translations choose different wording for 14 words in this verse.
- 7 distinct Hebrew lemmas span 7 words in this verse.
Commentary
Notes on Numbers 2:28 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.