Numbers 2:7

Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex)

English Translation

The tribe of Zebulun: and the prince of the children of Zebulun shall be Eliab the son of Helon.

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חֵלֹֽן

Chêlôn

H2497

“Helon”

Noun, Proper

Appears 5× in the Hebrew Bible
First appears at Numbers 1:9

Full BDB Definition

Origin: from H2428

TWOT: None

Helon = "strength" - father of Eliab of the tribe of Zebulun

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 חֵלֹֽן Helon H2497 — appearing just 5 times in the whole Hebrew Bible.

Shared distinctive vocabulary

חֵלֹֽן Helon H2497 occurs in 5 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:

Grammatical profile

8 nouns

Repetition

Words recur within this verse — often emphatic in Hebrew:

זְבוּלֻ֑ן Zebulun H2074 ×2
לִבְנֵ֣י son H1121 ×2

Hebrew & Septuagint length

In English translation the verse runs 19 words from the Hebrew and 27 from the Septuagint (LXX English) — the Septuagint runs noticeably longer here. See the side-by-side →

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 2:7 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.

Numbers 1:9 Of Zebulun: Eliab the son of Helon.
Numbers 1:30–31 Of the children of Zebulun, their generations, by their families, by their fathers' houses, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go out to war;
Numbers 7:24 On the third day Eliab the son of Helon, prince of the children of Zebulun
Numbers 7:29 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 Eliab the son of Helon.
Numbers 10:16 Over the host of the tribe of the children of Zebulun was Eliab the son of Helon.

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.

Here the Septuagint runs noticeably longer than the Hebrew — LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) 27 words vs World English Bible 19. A rough length comparison of the two English translations, not a word-level alignment — read both below.

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

Hebrew Numbers 2:7 Masoretic · Westminster Leningrad Codex

מַטֵּ֖ה זְבוּלֻ֑ן וְנָשִׂיא֙ לִבְנֵ֣י זְבוּלֻ֔ן אֱלִיאָ֖ב בֶּן חֵלֹֽן

The tribe of Zebulun: and the prince of the children of Zebulun shall be Eliab the son of Helon.

World English Bible · Public Domain

Greek LXX Numbers 2:7 Septuagint · lemma form

καί ὁ παρα ἐνβάλλω ἔχω φυλή ζαβουλων καί ὁ ἄρχων ὁ υἱός ζαβουλων ελιαβ υἱός χαιλων

And they that encamp next shall be of the tribe of Zabulon, and the prince of the sons of Zabulon shall be Eliab the son of Chaelon.

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)

שִׁבְטָא דִזְבוּלֻן וְרַבָּא לִבְנֵי זְבוּלֻן אֱלִיאָב בַּר חֵלוֹן

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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)

שִׁבְטָא דִזְבוּלוּן וְרַבָּא דַהֲוָה מְמַנֵי עַל חֵילְוַת שִׁבְטָא דִבְנֵי זְבוּלֻן אֱלִיאָב בַּר חֵילוֹן

The tribe of Zebulon,--the Rabba, Eliab bar Chelon;

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 2:7 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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Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown

Then the tribe of Zebulun--on the other side. While Judah's tribe was the most numerous, those of Issachar and Zebulun were also very numerous; so that the association of those three tribes formed a strong and imposing van.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown — Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871) — public domain (CC PDM 1.0). Text via the HelloAO Bible API.

John Gill's Exposition

Then the tribe of Zebulun,.... He pitched next; though the order of their encampment was not, as it may seem, first Judah, after him Issachar, and below him Zebulun; for Judah lay between these two, the one before him, and the other behind him; and it was Issachar that was behind, and Zebulun before, as Aben Ezra observes; they were pitched on each side of the standard of Judah, one on one side, and the other on the other side:

and Eliab, the son of Helon, shall be, captain of the children of Zebulun; see Num 1:9; each tribe had its own captain; nor does it appear that there was a general over those captains, that had the command of the camp, consisting of three tribes, but Moses was the generalissimo of all the camps.

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

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General Information:

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

Eliab son of Helon

See how you translated this man's name in Numbers 1:9.

57,400

"fifty-seven thousand four hundred." This refers to the number of men. AT: "57,400 men" (See: Numbers and Ellipsis)

translationWords

tribe

Zebulun

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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 Chêlôn (“Helon”). The Greek Septuagint runs longer here. A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.

Discussion questions

How does “Helon” (Chêlôn) shape what this verse is saying?
How does Numbers 1:9, which shares the word «Helon», read alongside this verse?
What does the repetition of “Zebulun” (2× in this one verse) do in this verse?
The Septuagint runs longer here than the Hebrew. What might account for the difference?
These translations render this verse differently; the difference is in the English rendering, not the original. What questions does that raise?
Compare how Jamieson, Fausset & Brown 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.
“Zebulun” occurs 2× in this single verse.
6 distinct Hebrew lemmas span 8 words in this verse.