Numbers 26:19

Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex)

English Translation

The sons of Judah: Er and Onan; and Er and Onan died in the land of Canaan.

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וְאוֹנָ֑ן

ʼÔwnân

H209

“and · Onan”

Conjunction + Noun, Proper

Appears 8× in the Hebrew Bible
First appears at Genesis 38:4

Full BDB Definition

Origin: a variation of H207

TWOT: None

Onan = "strong" - second son of Judah, slain by God for not fulfilling the levitical requirement to beget a child with the wife of a dead, childless brother

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
7: distinct lemmas
Pentateuch: section

Notable vocabulary

The rarest word here is וְאוֹנָ֑ן Onan H209 — appearing just 8 times in the whole Hebrew Bible.

Shared distinctive vocabulary

וְאוֹנָ֑ן Onan H209 occurs in 6 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:

Grammatical profile

1 verb
8 nouns

Verb forms

וַיָּ֥מָת Qal · Sequential Imperfect

Repetition

Words recur within this verse — often emphatic in Hebrew:

עֵ֣ר Er H6147 ×2
וְאוֹנָ֑ן Onan H209 ×2

Hebrew & Septuagint length

In English translation the verse runs 17 words from the Hebrew and 23 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 9 Hebrew tokens and 16 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

Topical passages linked to Numbers 26:19 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.

Genesis 46:12 The sons of Judah: Er, Onan, Shelah, Perez, and Zerah; but Er and Onan died in the land of Canaan. The sons of Perez were Hezron and Hamul.
Genesis 38:1–10 It happened at that time, that Judah went down from his brothers, and visited a certain Adullamite, whose name was Hirah.
1 Chronicles 2:3–8 The sons of Judah: Er, and Onan, and Shelah; which three were born to him of Shua's daughter the Canaanitess. Er, Judah's firstborn, was wicked in the sight of Yahweh; and he killed him.

Cross-references courtesy of OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0).

Hebrew and Greek witnesses Masoretic Hebrew ↔ Greek Septuagint

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Hebrew Numbers 26:19 Masoretic · Westminster Leningrad Codex

בְּנֵ֥י יְהוּדָ֖ה עֵ֣ר וְאוֹנָ֑ן וַיָּ֥מָת עֵ֛ר וְאוֹנָ֖ן בְּאֶ֥רֶץ כְּנָֽעַן

The sons of Judah: Er and Onan; and Er and Onan died in the land of Canaan.

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Greek LXX Numbers 26:19 Septuagint · lemma form

καί υἱός ισσαχαρ κατά δῆμος αὐτός ὁ θωλα δῆμος ὁ θωλαϊ ὁ φουα δῆμος ὁ φουαϊ

And the sons of Issachar according to their families: to Thola, the family of the Tholaites; to Phua, the family of the Phuaites.

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)

בְּנֵי יְהוּדָה עֵר וְאוֹנָן וּמִית עֵר וְאוֹנָן בְּאַרְעָא דִכְנָעַן

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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)

בְּנוֹי דִיהוּדָה עֵר וְאוֹנָן וּמִיתוּ עֵר וְאוֹנָן עַל חוֹבֵיהוֹן בְּאַרְעָא דִכְנָעַן

Of Jehudah, Her and Onan. But Her and Onan died, on account of their sins, in the land of Kenaan.

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 26:19 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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Geneva Bible (1599)

Geneva Bible translators

Before Jacob went into Egypt, Gen. 38:3,7,10 and 46:12.

Geneva Bible (1599) marginal notes — public domain. Text via Bolls.life.

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers

(19) Er and Onan died in the land of Canaan.—See Gen_38:6-10, and Note.

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

John Gill's Exposition

The sons of Benjamin, after their families,.... This tribe was numbered next to Ephraim, being under his standard. Five of the sons of Benjamin are omitted, perhaps because they died without issue, and so no families sprang from them; the names of the five sons mentioned vary a little from the names of them in Gen 46:21 instead of Ehi, it is here Ahiram; and instead of Huppim and Muppim, it is here Shupham and Hupham; from these last five were the families of the Belaite, Ashbelite, Ahiramite, Shuphamite, and Huphamite; and from the eldest of them sprang two other families, the Ardite and Naamite, from Ard and Naaman, two sons of Bela; the number of men in these families was 45,600, so that here was an increase of 10,200.

instead of Ehi, it is here Ahiram; and instead of Huppim and Muppim, it is here Shupham and Hupham; from these last five were the families of the Belaite, Ashbelite, Ahiramite, Shuphamite, and Huphamite; and from the eldest of them sprang two other families, the Ardite and Naamite, from Ard and Naaman, two sons of Bela; the number of men in these families was 45,600, so that here was an increase of 10,200.

Numbers 26:42

num 26:42

num 26:42

num 26:42These are the sons of Dan, after their families,.... Though he had but one son, the plural being put for the singular; or by sons are meant his posterity; his son's name was Shuham, and by transposition Hushim, in Gen 46:23 from him was the family of the Shulamite; and yet, though but one, consisted of 64,400 men; there was an increase of 1700 in this tribe.

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

unfoldingWord translationNotes

Door43 World Missions Community

General Information:

The leaders of Israel are counting the men, 20 years old and older, according to their tribes and families. (See: How to Translate Names and Numbers)

76,500 men

"seventy-six thousand five hundred men" (See: Numbers)

translationWords

Judah

son

Canaan

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Lesson kit

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Numbers, in the Pentateuch, opens this verse with 9 words (7 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is ʼÔwnân (“Onan”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.

Discussion questions

How does “Onan” (ʼÔwnân) shape what this verse is saying?
Genesis 38:4 shares the word «Onan» with this verse. How do the two illuminate each other?
“Er” occurs 2× in this one verse. What is the effect of the repetition?
The verb «וַיָּ֥מָת» is Qal Sequential Imperfect. How does its form color the action?
Reading how Geneva Bible (1599) and Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers read this verse, where do the two commentators agree and where do they part?

Things to notice

This verse counts 9 Hebrew ↔ 16 Greek words.
“Er” occurs 2× in this single verse.
7 distinct Hebrew lemmas span 9 words in this verse.