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Numbers 26:16

Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex) Numbers 26:16 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 26:16 (World English Bible). Public Domain. Lemma interlinear Bible study tool, https://lemma.gebible.app/v/numbers/26/16.

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of Ozni, the family of the Oznites; of Eri, the family of the Erites;
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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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  • World English Bible Public Domain
    of Ozni, the family of the Oznites; of Eri, the family of the Erites;
  • King James Version Public Domain
    Of Ozni, the family of the Oznites: of Eri, the family of the Erites:
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
    of Ozni, the clan of the Oznite; of Eri, the clan of the Erite;

unfoldingWord Literal Text — © unfoldingWord, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Word-aligned USFM3 via Door43 (git.door43.org/unfoldingWord/en_ult).

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  • World English Bible Public Domain
    of Ozni, the family of the Oznites; of Eri, the family of the Erites;
  • Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
    the Oznite clan from Ozni, the Erite clan from Eri,
  • Majority Standard Bible Public Domain
    the Oznite clan from Ozni, the Erite clan from Eri,
  • King James Version Public Domain
    Of Ozni, the family of the Oznites: of Eri, the family of the Erites:
  • American Standard Version (1901) Public Domain
    of Ozni, the family of the Oznites; of Eri, the family of the Erites;
  • Revised Version (1885) Public Domain
    of Ozni, the family of the Oznites: of Eri, the family of the Erites:
  • Geneva Bible (1599) Public Domain
    Of Ozni, the familie of the Oznites: of Eri, the familie of the Erites:
  • Douay-Rheims (1899) Public Domain
    Ozni, of him is the family of the Oznites: Her, of him is the family of the Herites:
  • Young's Literal Translation Public Domain
    of Ozni the family of the Oznite; of Eri the family of the Erite:
  • Literal Standard Version CC BY-SA 4.0
    of Ozni the family of the Oznite; of Eri the family of the Erite:
  • Unlocked Literal Bible CC BY-SA 4.0
    through Ozni, the clan of the Oznites, through Eri, the clan of the Erites,
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
    of Ozni, the clan of the Oznite; of Eri, the clan of the Erite;
  • Darby Bible Public Domain
    of Ozni, the family of the Oznites; of Eri, the family of the Erites;
  • World Messianic Bible Public Domain
    of Ozni, the family of the Oznites; of Eri, the family of the Erites;
  • Webster's Bible Public Domain
    Of Ozni, the family of the Oznites: of Eri, the family of the Erites:
  • Free Bible Version CC BY-SA 4.0
    Ozni, ancestor of the Oznite family; Eri, ancestor of the Erite family;
  • Bible in Basic English Public Domain
    Of Ozni, the family of the Oznites: of Eri, the family of the Erites:
  • JPS Tanakh (1917) Public Domain
    of Ozni, the family of the Oznites; of Eri, the family of the Erites;

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4
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Notable vocabulary

1 hapax legomenon — a word that appears only here in the entire Hebrew Bible:

  • הָעֵרִֽי Erites H6180

First appearance in Scripture

These words make their first canonical appearance in the Hebrew Bible here:

  • לְאָזְנִ֕י Ozni H244
  • הָעֵרִֽי Erites H6180

Grammatical profile

  • 6 nouns

Repetition

Words recur within this verse — often emphatic in Hebrew:

  • לְאָזְנִ֕י Ozni H244 ×2
  • מִשְׁפַּ֖חַת family H4940 ×2

Hebrew & Septuagint length

In English translation the verse runs 14 words from the Hebrew and 33 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.

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Cross-references

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Topical passages linked to Numbers 26:16 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.

  • Genesis 46:16 The sons of Gad: Ziphion, Haggi, Shuni, Ezbon, Eri, Arodi, and Areli.

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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) 33 words vs World English Bible 14. 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 26:16 Masoretic · Westminster Leningrad Codex

לְאָזְנִ֕י מִשְׁפַּ֖חַת הָאָזְנִ֑י לְעֵרִ֕י מִשְׁפַּ֖חַת הָעֵרִֽי

of Ozni, the family of the Oznites; of Eri, the family of the Erites;

World English Bible · Public Domain

Greek LXX Numbers 26:16 Septuagint · lemma form

γίγνομαι δέ ὁ υἱός ιουδα κατά δῆμος αὐτός ὁ σηλων δῆμος ὁ σηλωνι ὁ φαρες δῆμος ὁ φαρες ὁ ζαρα δῆμος ὁ ζαραϊ

And these were the sons of Juda, according to their families: to Selom belonged the family of the Selonites; to Phares, the family of the Pharesites; to Zara, the family of the Zaraites.

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)
    לְאָזְנִי זַרְעִית אָזְנִי לְעֵרִי זַרְעִית עֵרִי

    (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.

  2. Targum Pseudo-Jonathan Torah (Genesis–Deuteronomy)
    לְאָזְנִי גְנִיסַת אָזְנִי לְעֵרִי גְנִיסַת עֵרִי

    Of Ozni, the family of Ozni; of Heri, the family of Heri.

    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 26:16 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 →

Matthew Poole's English Annotations

Ozni, called Ezbon, Gen 46:16.

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

16. Ozni is evidently a corruption of Ezbon (Gen_46:16) by the accidental omission of beth in the first place, and the subsequent addition of a vowel at the end of the word.

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

Kretzmann's Popular Commentary

Paul E. Kretzmann

The Command of God Against the Midianites. —

v. 16. And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,

v. 17. Vex the Midianites, show your enmity, openly oppose them, and smite them;

v. 18. for they vex you, prove themselves your most dangerous enemies, with their wiles, wherewith they have beguiled you in the matter of Peor, by seducing them to idolatrous practices, and in the matter of Cozbi, the daughter of a prince of Midian, their sister, which was slain in the day of the plague for Peor’s sake. Thus the zeal of Phinehas, the zeal for Jehovah, might be assumed by all the nation and the honor of the Lord be vindicated. It had been an extreme case of the grossest outrage that this princess had caused herself to be led into the sacred camp, to glorify lust, and to render it an act of service or worship. This command of God was carried out Num 31:1-12.

Paul E. Kretzmann, Popular Commentary of the Bible (1921–1924) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

Rashi

Rabbi Shlomo Yitzchaki (Rashi)

לאזני OF OZNI — I say (cf. Rashi on v. 13) that this is the family of Ezbon, (Genesis 46:16), but I do not know why his family was not called directly by his name.

Rashi on the Tanakh — English translations: “The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg” (CC BY 4.0); “Pentateuch with Rashi's commentary by M. Rosenbaum and A.M. Silbermann, 1929-1934” (public domain); “The Metsudah Tanach series, Lakewood, N.J” (CC BY 4.0); and “The Book of Joshua, Metsudah Publications, 1997” (CC BY 4.0). Text via Sefaria.

Lesson kit

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Numbers, in the Pentateuch, opens this verse with 6 words (4 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is ʻÊrîy (“Erites”). The Greek Septuagint runs longer here. A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.

Discussion questions

  1. The word ʻÊrîy carries the sense “Erites.” How does it shape the verse?
  2. 1 word here appears nowhere else in the Hebrew Bible. Why might the author reach for such rare wording?
  3. 2 words make their first appearance in Scripture here. What does this debut establish?
  4. How does Genesis 46:16, which shares this passage’s theme, read alongside this verse?
  5. What does the repetition of “Ozni” (2× in this one verse) do in this verse?
  6. The Septuagint runs longer here than the Hebrew. What might account for the difference?
  7. 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?
  8. Compare how Matthew Poole's English Annotations and Whedon's Commentary on the Bible read this verse. Where do they agree or differ?

Things to notice

  • 1 word in this verse appears nowhere else in the Hebrew Bible.
  • 2 words make their first canonical appearance in Scripture here.
  • These translations choose different wording for 6 words in this verse.
  • “Ozni” occurs 2× in this single verse.
  • 4 distinct Hebrew lemmas span 6 words in this verse.

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