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Numbers 26:14

Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex) Numbers 26:14 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.
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Numbers 26:14 (World English Bible). Public Domain. Lemma interlinear Bible study tool, https://lemma.gebible.app/v/numbers/26/14.

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These are the families of the Simeonites, twenty-two thousand two hundred.
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  • World English Bible Public Domain
    These are the families of the Simeonites, twenty-two thousand two hundred.
  • King James Version Public Domain
    These are the families of the Simeonites, twenty and two thousand and two hundred.
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
    These were the clans of the Simeonite, 22, 200.

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  • World English Bible Public Domain
    These are the families of the Simeonites, twenty-two thousand two hundred.
  • Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
    These were the clans of Simeon, and there were 22,200 men.
  • Majority Standard Bible Public Domain
    These were the clans of Simeon, and there were 22,200 men.
  • King James Version Public Domain
    These are the families of the Simeonites, twenty and two thousand and two hundred.
  • American Standard Version (1901) Public Domain
    These are the families of the Simeonites, twenty and two thousand and two hundred.
  • Revised Version (1885) Public Domain
    These are the families of the Simeonites, twenty and two thousand and two hundred.
  • Geneva Bible (1599) Public Domain
    These are the families of the Simeonites: two and twentie thousand and two hundreth.
  • Douay-Rheims (1899) Public Domain
    These are the families of the stock of Simeon, of which the whole number was twenty-two thousand two hundred.
  • Young's Literal Translation Public Domain
    These `are' families of the Simeonite, two and twenty thousand and two hundred.
  • Literal Standard Version CC BY-SA 4.0
    These [are] families of the Simeonite—twenty-two thousand and two hundred.
  • Unlocked Literal Bible CC BY-SA 4.0
    These were the clans of Simeon's descendants, who numbered 22,200 men.
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
    These were the clans of the Simeonite, 22, 200.
  • Darby Bible Public Domain
    These are the families of the Simeonites, twenty-two thousand two hundred.
  • World Messianic Bible Public Domain
    These are the families of the Simeonites, twenty-two thousand two hundred.
  • Webster's Bible Public Domain
    These are the families of the Simeonites, twenty and two thousand and two hundred.
  • Free Bible Version CC BY-SA 4.0
    These were the families descended from Simeon and they numbered 22,200.
  • Bible in Basic English Public Domain
    These are the families of the Simeonites, twenty-two thousand, two hundred.
  • JPS Tanakh (1917) Public Domain
    These are the families of the Simeonites, twenty and two thousand and two hundred.

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7
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Notable vocabulary

The rarest word here is הַשִּׁמְעֹנִ֑י Simeonites H8099 — appearing just 4 times in the whole Hebrew Bible.

Shared distinctive vocabulary

הַשִּׁמְעֹנִ֑י Simeonites H8099 occurs in 4 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:

Grammatical profile

  • 2 nouns
  • 4 adjectives
  • 1 pronoun

Hebrew & Septuagint length

In English translation the verse runs 11 words from the Hebrew and 17 from the Septuagint (LXX English) — the Septuagint runs noticeably longer here. See the side-by-side →

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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 13 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.

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Topical passages linked to Numbers 26:14 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.

  • Numbers 1:22–23 Of the children of Simeon, their generations, by their families, by their fathers' houses, those who were numbered of it, according to the number of the names, one by one, every male from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go out to war;
  • Numbers 2:12–13 "Those who encamp next to him shall be the tribe of Simeon. The prince of the children of Simeon shall be Shelumiel the son of Zurishaddai.

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Hebrew and Greek witnesses Masoretic Hebrew ↔ Greek Septuagint

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Here the Septuagint runs noticeably longer than the Hebrew — LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) 17 words vs World English Bible 11. A rough length comparison of the two English translations, not a word-level alignment — read both below.

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Hebrew Numbers 26:14 Masoretic · Westminster Leningrad Codex

אֵ֖לֶּה מִשְׁפְּחֹ֣ת הַשִּׁמְעֹנִ֑י שְׁנַ֧יִם וְעֶשְׂרִ֛ים אֶ֖לֶף וּמָאתָֽיִם

These are the families of the Simeonites, twenty-two thousand two hundred.

World English Bible · Public Domain

Greek LXX Numbers 26:14 Septuagint · lemma form

οὗτος δῆμος συμεων ἐκ ὁ ἐπίσκεψις αὐτός δύο καί εἴκοσι χιλιάς καί διακόσιοι

These are the families of Symeon according to their numbering, two and twenty thousand and two 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)

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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.

  1. Targum Onkelos Torah (Genesis–Deuteronomy)
    אִלֵין זַרְעֲיַת שִׁמְעוֹן עַשְׂרִין וּתְרֵין אַלְפִין וּמָאתָן

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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.

  2. Targum Pseudo-Jonathan Torah (Genesis–Deuteronomy)
    אִלֵין גְנִיסְתָּא דְשִׁמְעוֹן עַשְרִין וּתְרֵין אַלְפִין וּמָאתָן

    These are the families of Shemeon, twenty-two thousand two 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.

Commentary

Notes on Numbers 26:14 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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Joseph Benson's Commentary

Num 26:14. Twenty-two thousand and two hundred — No tribe decreased so much as Simeon’s. From fifty-nine thousand and three hundred it sunk to twenty-two thousand and two hundred, little more than a third of what it was. One whole family of that tribe (Ohad, mentioned Exo 6:15) was extinct in the wilderness. Some think most of the twenty-four thousand, cut off by the plague for the iniquity of Peor, were of that tribe. For Zimri, a ringleader in that iniquity, was a prince of that tribe. Simeon is not mentioned in Moses’s blessing, Deuteronomy 33. And the lot of that tribe in Canaan was inconsiderable, only a canton out of Judah’s lot, Jos 19:9.

Joseph Benson's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments (1811–1818) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers

(14) Twenty and two thousand and two hundred.—This shows a decrease of 37,100 in the tribe of Simeon. Zimri, the chief offender in the matter of Baal-peor, belonged to this tribe, and, as in the case of the Reubenites, it is probable that he had led astray many of his tribe with him. It is remarkable that this is the only tribe on which, according to the present Hebrew text,[127] no blessing was pronounced by Moses (Deuteronomy 33), and that in the allotment of the land of Canaan the inheritance of Simeon was only the remnant of that which was assigned to Judah (Jos_19:9).

[127] The “Codex Alexandrinus” inserts a clause: “Let Simeon be many in number.”

A Bible Commentary for English Readers, edited by Charles John Ellicott (1878–1897) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

Families. Ahod is not mentioned, as he, probably, died without children. See Genesis xlvi. 10. (Menochius) --- Hundred. Their numbers were the most reduced. See chap. xxv. 9. (Haydock)

George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), Haydock's Catholic Family Bible and Commentary, 1859 edition — public domain. Excludes Psalms (Douay-Rheims chapter numbering differs from Protestant) and Deuterocanonical books (Catholic canon only).

Matthew Poole's English Annotations

Whereas there were 35,400 in Num 1:23. It is thought the example of Zimri, one of their princes, Num 25, and some others among them, did infect the generality of the tribe, and so caused this great diminution in their numbers.

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

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible

Daniel D. Whedon

14. Twenty and two thousand — A decrease of thirty-seven thousand one hundred must be ascribed to some remarkable cause. Probably the bad example of Prince Zimri (Num_25:6; Num_25:14) had led many Simeonites into that licentiousness which was punished by the plague and by the slow wasting of venereal diseases.

Daniel D. Whedon (gen. ed.), Commentary on the Old and New Testaments (1874–1909) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

John Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Twenty two thousand and two hundred - No tribe decreased so much as Simeon's. From fifty nine thousand and three hundred it sunk to twenty two thousand and two hundred, little more than a third part of what it was. One whole family of that tribe, (Ohad mentioned Exod. vi, 15) was extinct in the wilderness. Some think most of the twenty four thousand, cut off by the plague for the iniquity of Peor, were of that tribe. For Zimri, a ring-leader in that iniquity, was a prince of that tribe. Simeon is not mentioned in Moses's blessing, Deut. xxxiii, 1-29. And the lot of that tribe in Canaan was inconsiderable, only a canton out of Judah's lot, Josh. xix, 9.

John Wesley, Explanatory Notes Upon the Whole Bible (1754–1765) — public domain. Text via the GEBible commentary corpus.

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Numbers, in the Pentateuch, opens this verse with 7 words (7 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is Shimʻônîy (“Simeonites”). The Greek Septuagint runs longer here. A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.

Discussion questions

  1. What does “Simeonites” (Shimʻônîy) contribute to the verse as a whole?
  2. How does Numbers 25:14, which shares the word «Simeonites», read alongside this verse?
  3. The Septuagint runs longer here than the Hebrew. What might account for the difference?
  4. These translations render this verse differently; the difference is in the English rendering, not the original. What questions does that raise?
  5. Compare how Joseph Benson's Commentary and Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers read this verse. Where do they agree or differ?

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