Numbers 26:18

Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex) Numbers 26:18 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 26:18 (World English Bible). Public Domain. Lemma interlinear Bible study tool, https://lemma.gebible.app/v/numbers/26/18.

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These are the families of the sons of Gad according to those who were numbered of them, forty thousand and five hundred.
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  • World English Bible Public Domain
    These are the families of the sons of Gad according to those who were numbered of them, forty thousand and five hundred.
  • King James Version Public Domain
    These are the families of the children of Gad according to those that were numbered of them, forty thousand and five hundred.
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
    These were the clans of the sons of Gad according to their counted ones, 40, 500.

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  • World English Bible Public Domain
    These are the families of the sons of Gad according to those who were numbered of them, forty thousand and five hundred.
  • Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
    These were the clans of Gad, and their registration numbered 40,500.
  • Majority Standard Bible Public Domain
    These were the clans of Gad, and their registration numbered 40,500.
  • King James Version Public Domain
    These are the families of the children of Gad according to those that were numbered of them, forty thousand and five hundred.
  • American Standard Version (1901) Public Domain
    These are the families of the sons of Gad according to those that were numbered of them, forty thousand and five hundred.
  • Revised Version (1885) Public Domain
    These are the families of the sons of Gad according to those that were numbered of them, forty thousand and five hundred.
  • Geneva Bible (1599) Public Domain
    These are the families of the sonnes of Gad, according to their nombers, fourtie thousand and fiue hundreth.
  • Douay-Rheims (1899) Public Domain
    These are the families of Gad, of which the whole number was forty thousand five hundred.
  • Young's Literal Translation Public Domain
    These `are' families of the sons of Gad, by their numbered ones, forty thousand and five hundred.
  • Literal Standard Version CC BY-SA 4.0
    These [are] families of the sons of Gad by their numbered ones—forty thousand and five hundred.
  • Unlocked Literal Bible CC BY-SA 4.0
    These were the clans of Gad's descendants, who numbered 40,500 men.
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
    These were the clans of the sons of Gad according to their counted ones, 40, 500.
  • Darby Bible Public Domain
    These are the families of the children of Gad according to those that were numbered of them, forty thousand five hundred.
  • World Messianic Bible Public Domain
    These are the families of the sons of Gad according to those who were counted of them, forty thousand and five hundred.
  • Webster's Bible Public Domain
    These are the families of the children of Gad, according to those that were numbered of them, forty thousand and five hundred.
  • Free Bible Version CC BY-SA 4.0
    These were the families descended from Gad and they numbered 40,500.
  • Bible in Basic English Public Domain
    These are the families of the sons of Gad as they were numbered, forty thousand, five hundred.
  • JPS Tanakh (1917) Public Domain
    These are the families of the sons of Gad according to those that were numbered of them, forty thousand and five hundred.

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גָ֖ד
Gâd
H1410
“Gad”
Noun, Proper
Part of Speech
Noun
Type
Proper
Full BDB Definition

Origin: from H1464

TWOT: None

Gad = "troop" - seventh son of Jacob by Zilpah, Leah's handmaid, and full brother of Asher. - the tribe descended from Gad - a prophet during the time of David; appears to have joined David when in the hold; reappears in connection with the punishment for taking a census; also assisted in the arrangements for the musical service of the " house of God"
  1. אֵ֛לֶּה ʼêl-leh H428 “these” Pronoun, Demonstrative, Common, Plural
  2. מִשְׁפְּחֹ֥ת mishpâchâh H4940 “families of” Noun, Common, Feminine, Plural, Construct
  3. בְּנֵֽי bên H1121 “sons of” Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Construct
  4. לִפְקֻדֵיהֶ֑ם pâqad H6485 “to/for · visited · them” Preposition + Verb, Qal, Participle Passive, Masculine, Plural, Construct + Suffix, Personal, 3rd Person, Masculine, Plural
  5. אַרְבָּעִ֥ים ʼarbâʻîym H705 “forty” Adjective, Cardinal number, Both, Plural, Absolute
  6. אֶ֖לֶף ʼeleph H505 “thousand” Adjective, Cardinal number, Both, Singular, Absolute
  7. וַחֲמֵ֥שׁ châmêsh H2568 “and · five” Conjunction + Adjective, Cardinal number, Feminine, Singular, Absolute
  8. 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 →

9
words
9
distinct lemmas
Pentateuch
section

Grammatical profile

  • 1 verb
  • 3 nouns
  • 4 adjectives
  • 1 pronoun

Verb forms

  • לִפְקֻדֵיהֶ֑ם Qal · Participle Passive

Hebrew & Septuagint length

In English translation the verse runs 22 words from the Hebrew and 15 from the Septuagint (LXX English) — the Septuagint runs noticeably shorter 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.

In the original languages it is 9 Hebrew tokens and 14 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

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Topical passages linked to Numbers 26:18 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.

  • Numbers 1:24–25 Of the children of Gad, 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 2:14–15 "The tribe of Gad: and the prince of the children of Gad shall be Eliasaph the son of Reuel.

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 shorter than the Hebrew — LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) 15 words vs World English Bible 22. 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 26:18 Masoretic · Westminster Leningrad Codex

אֵ֛לֶּה מִשְׁפְּחֹ֥ת בְּנֵֽי גָ֖ד לִפְקֻדֵיהֶ֑ם אַרְבָּעִ֥ים אֶ֖לֶף וַחֲמֵ֥שׁ מֵאֽוֹת

These are the families of the sons of Gad according to those who were numbered of them, forty thousand and five hundred.

World English Bible · Public Domain

Greek LXX Numbers 26:18 Septuagint · lemma form

οὗτος δῆμος ὁ ιουδα κατά ὁ ἐπισκοπή αὐτός ἕξ καί ἑβδομήκοντα χιλιάς καί πεντακόσιοι

These are the families of Juda according to their numbering, seventy-six thousand and five hundred.

LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) · Public Domain

On this verse, Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary discusses the Septuagint’s reading. Read the note in Commentary ↓

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 בְּנֵי גָד לְמִנְיָנֵהוֹן אַרְבְּעִין 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.

  2. Targum Pseudo-Jonathan Torah (Genesis–Deuteronomy)
    אִלֵין גְנִיסַת בְּנֵי גָד לִסְכוּמְהוֹן אַרְבְּעִין אַלְפִין וַחֲמֵשׁ מְאָה

    These are the families of Gad, and their numbers were forty 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.

Commentary

Notes on Numbers 26:18 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 →

Joseph Benson's Commentary

Num 26:18. Children of Gad — Fewer by above five thousand than there were in their last numbering.

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

(18) Forty thousand and five hundred.—This shows a decrease of 5,150. Reuben, Simeon, and Gad encamped together on the south of the Tabernacle (Num_2:10), and had probably been mutually contaminated by each other’s evil example.

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

Hundred. Septuagint add, "4000." This tribe had formerly 45,650. It had lost 5100.

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

Fewer by above five thousand than there were in their last numbering, Num 2:15.

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

John Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Children of Gad - Fewer by above five thousand than there were in their last numbering.

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

Lesson kit

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Numbers, in the Pentateuch, opens this verse with 9 words (9 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is Gâd (“Gad”). The Greek Septuagint runs shorter here. A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.

Discussion questions

  1. How does “Gad” (Gâd) shape what this verse is saying?
  2. How does Numbers 1:24–25, which shares this passage’s theme, read alongside this verse?
  3. The Septuagint runs shorter 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. «לִפְקֻדֵיהֶ֑ם» is a Qal Participle Passive verb. How does that grammatical form shape the action described?
  6. 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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