וּצְבָא֖וֹ וּפְקֻדָ֑יו שִׁבְעָ֧ה וַחֲמִשִּׁ֛ים אֶ֖לֶף וְאַרְבַּ֥ע מֵאֽוֹת
His division, and those who were numbered of it, were fifty-seven thousand four hundred.
World English Bible · Public Domain
Numbers 2:8
Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex) Numbers 2:8 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 it, were fifty-seven thousand four 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.
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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 it, were fifty-seven thousand four hundred.
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King James Version Public Domain
And his host, and those that were numbered thereof, were fifty and seven thousand and four hundred.
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
and his army and his counted ones 57,400.
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 it, were fifty-seven thousand four hundred.
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Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
and his division numbers 57,400.
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Majority Standard Bible Public Domain
and his division numbers 57,400.
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King James Version Public Domain
And his host, and those that were numbered thereof, were fifty and seven thousand and four hundred.
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American Standard Version (1901) Public Domain
And his host, and those that were numbered thereof, were fifty and seven thousand and four hundred.
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Revised Version (1885) Public Domain
and his host, and those that were numbered thereof, were fifty and seven thousand and four hundred.
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Geneva Bible (1599) Public Domain
And his hoste, and the nomber thereof seuen and fiftie thousand and foure hundreth:
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Douay-Rheims (1899) Public Domain
And all the army of fighting men of his stock, were fifty-seven thousand four hundred.
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Young's Literal Translation Public Domain
and his host, and its numbered ones, `are' seven and fifty thousand and four hundred;
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Literal Standard Version CC BY-SA 4.0
and his host, and its numbered ones, [are] fifty-seven thousand and four hundred.
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Unlocked Literal Bible CC BY-SA 4.0
The number in his division is 57,400.
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
and his army and his counted ones 57,400.
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Darby Bible Public Domain
and his host, even those that were numbered thereof, fifty-seven thousand four hundred.
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World Messianic Bible Public Domain
His division, and those who were counted of it, were fifty-seven thousand four hundred.
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Webster's Bible Public Domain
And his host, and those that were numbered of it, were fifty and seven thousand and four hundred.
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Free Bible Version CC BY-SA 4.0
and he has 57,400 men.
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Bible in Basic English Public Domain
The number of his army was fifty-seven thousand, four hundred.
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JPS Tanakh (1917) Public Domain
and his host, and those that were numbered thereof, fifty and seven thousand and four hundred;
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וַחֲמִשִּׁ֛ים
chămishshîym
H2572
“and · fifty”
Conjunction + Adjective, Cardinal number, Both, Plural, Absolute
- Appears 163× in the Hebrew Bible
- First appears at Genesis 6:15
- Part of Speech
- Conjunction + Adjective
- Type
- Cardinal number
- Gender
- Both
- Number
- Plural
- State
- Absolute
Full BDB Definition
fifty
- fifty (cardinal number)
- a multiple of fifty (with other numbers)
- fiftieth (ordinal number)
- וּצְבָא֖וֹ tsâbâʼ H6635 “and · army · his” Conjunction + Noun, Common, Both, Singular, Construct + Suffix, Personal, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular
- וּפְקֻדָ֑יו pâqad H6485 “and · visited · him” Conjunction + Verb, Qal, Participle Passive, Masculine, Plural, Construct + Suffix, Personal, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular
- שִׁבְעָ֧ה shebaʻ H7651 “seven” Adjective, Cardinal number, Masculine, Singular, Absolute
- וַחֲמִשִּׁ֛ים chămishshîym H2572 “and · fifty” Conjunction + Adjective, Cardinal number, Both, Plural, Absolute
- אֶ֖לֶף ʼeleph H505 “thousand” Adjective, Cardinal number, Both, Singular, Absolute
- וְאַרְבַּ֥ע ʼarbaʻ H702 “and · four” 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
- וּפְקֻדָ֑יו Qal · Participle Passive
Hebrew & Septuagint length
In English translation the verse runs 14 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 2:8 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.
- Numbers 1:31 those who were numbered of them, of the tribe of Zebulun, were fifty-seven thousand four hundred.
- Numbers 26:26–27 The sons of Zebulun after their families: of Sered, the family of the Seredites; of Elon, the family of the Elonites; of Jahleel, the family of the Jahleelites.
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 ἑπτά καί πεντήκοντα χιλιάς καί τετρακόσιοι
His forces that were numbered, were fifty-seven thousand and four 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 וּמִנְיָנוֹהִי חַמְשִׁין וְשַׁבְעָא אַלְפִין וְאַרְבַּע 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 וּסְכוּמֵיהוֹן דְשִׁבְטֵיהּ חַמְשִׁין וְשׁוּבְעָא אַלְפִין וְאַרְבַּע מְאָה
the number, fifty-seven thousand four 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 chămishshîym (“fifty”). Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.
Discussion questions
- How does “fifty” (chămishshîym) shape what this verse is saying?
- Numbers 1:31 shares this passage’s theme. How do the two illuminate each other?
- These translations render this verse differently. What is at stake in choosing one wording over another?
- The verb «וּפְקֻדָ֑יו» 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 15 words in this verse.
- 7 distinct Hebrew lemmas span 7 words in this verse.
Commentary
Notes on Numbers 2:8 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.