וְאַ֨שְׂרִיאֵ֔ל מִשְׁפַּ֖חַת הָֽאַשְׂרִֽאֵלִ֑י וְשֶׁ֕כֶם מִשְׁפַּ֖חַת הַשִּׁכְמִֽי
and [of] Asriel, the family of the Asrielites; and [of] Shechem, the family of the Shechemites;
World English Bible · Public Domain
Numbers 26:31
Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex) Numbers 26:31 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
and [of] Asriel, the family of the Asrielites; and [of] Shechem, the family of the Shechemites;
Highlights
- 2 hapax legomena — only here in the Hebrew Bible
- 4 first appearances in the Hebrew Bible
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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.
Each is an independent rendering of the whole verse — the interlinear is not word-aligned to these translations.
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
and [of] Asriel, the family of the Asrielites; and [of] Shechem, the family of the Shechemites;
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King James Version Public Domain
And of Asriel, the family of the Asrielites: and of Shechem, the family of the Shechemites:
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
and Asriel, the clan of the Asrielite; and Shechem, the clan of the Shechemite;
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
and [of] Asriel, the family of the Asrielites; and [of] Shechem, the family of the Shechemites;
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Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
the Asrielite clan from Asriel, the Shechemite clan from Shechem,
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Majority Standard Bible Public Domain
the Asrielite clan from Asriel, the Shechemite clan from Shechem,
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King James Version Public Domain
And of Asriel, the family of the Asrielites: and of Shechem, the family of the Shechemites:
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American Standard Version (1901) Public Domain
and `of' Asriel, the family of the Asrielites; and `of' Shechem, the family of the Shechemites;
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Revised Version (1885) Public Domain
and of Asriel, the family of the Asrielites: and of Shechem, the family of the Shechemites:
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Geneva Bible (1599) Public Domain
Of Asriel, the familie of the Asrielites: of Shechem, the familie of Shichmites.
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Douay-Rheims (1899) Public Domain
And Asriel, of whom is the family of the Asrielites: and Sechem, of whom is the family of the Sechemites:
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Young's Literal Translation Public Domain
and `of' Asriel the family of the Asrielite; and `of' Shechem the family of the Shechemite;
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Literal Standard Version CC BY-SA 4.0
and of Asriel the family of the Asrielite; and of Shechem the family of the Shechemite;
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Unlocked Literal Bible CC BY-SA 4.0
through Asriel, the clan of the Asrielites, through Shechem, the clan of the Shechemites,
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
and Asriel, the clan of the Asrielite; and Shechem, the clan of the Shechemite;
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Darby Bible Public Domain
and of Asriel, the family of the Asrielites; and of Shechem, the family of the Shechemites;
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World Messianic Bible Public Domain
and Asriel, the family of the Asrielites; and Shechem, the family of the Shechemites;
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Webster's Bible Public Domain
And of Asriel, the family of the Asrielites: and of Shechem, the family of the Shechemites:
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Free Bible Version CC BY-SA 4.0
Asriel, ancestor of the Asrielite family; Shechem, ancestor of the Shechemite family;
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Bible in Basic English Public Domain
And of Asriel, the family of the Asrielites: and of Shechem, the family of the Shechemites:
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JPS Tanakh (1917) Public Domain
and of Asriel, the family of the Asrielites; and of Shechem, the family of the Shechemites;
Literal Standard Version (2020), Covenant Press — licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Text via the HelloAO Bible API (eBible.org). Unlocked Literal Bible (unfoldingWord) — licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Text via the HelloAO Bible API (eBible.org). unfoldingWord Literal Text — © unfoldingWord, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Word-aligned USFM3 via Door43 (git.door43.org/unfoldingWord/en_ult). Free Bible Version, Dr. Jonathan Gallagher — licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Text via the HelloAO Bible API (eBible.org).
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הָֽאַשְׂרִֽאֵלִ֑י
ʼAsriʼêlîy
H845
“the · Asrielites”
Particle, Definite Article + Noun, Gentilic, Masculine, Singular, Absolute
- Appears 1× in the Hebrew Bible
- First appears here
- Part of Speech
- Particle + Noun
- Type
- Gentilic
- Gender
- Masculine
- Number
- Singular
- State
- Absolute
Full BDB Definition
Asrielites = "I shall be prince of God"
- the clan descended from Ashriel
- וְאַ֨שְׂרִיאֵ֔ל ʼAsrîyʼêl H844 “and · Ashriel” Conjunction + Noun, Proper
- מִשְׁפַּ֖חַת mishpâchâh H4940 “family of” Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Construct
- הָֽאַשְׂרִֽאֵלִ֑י ʼAsriʼêlîy H845 “the · Asrielites” Particle, Definite Article + Noun, Gentilic, Masculine, Singular, Absolute
- וְשֶׁ֕כֶם Shekem H7928 “and · Shechem” Conjunction + Noun, Proper
- מִשְׁפַּ֖חַת mishpâchâh H4940 “family of” Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Construct
- הַשִּׁכְמִֽי Shikmîy H7930 “the · Shechemites” Particle, Definite Article + Noun, Gentilic, Masculine, Singular, 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 →
- 6
- words
- 5
- distinct lemmas
- Pentateuch
- section
Notable vocabulary
2 hapax legomena — words that appear only here in the entire Hebrew Bible:
First appearance in Scripture
These words make their first canonical appearance in the Hebrew Bible here:
Shared distinctive vocabulary
וְאַ֨שְׂרִיאֵ֔ל Ashriel H844 occurs in 3 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:
Grammatical profile
- 6 nouns
Repetition
A word recurs within this verse — often emphatic in Hebrew:
- מִשְׁפַּ֖חַת family H4940 ×2
Hebrew & Septuagint length
In English translation the verse runs 16 words from the Hebrew and 15 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.
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.
οὗτος δῆμος ασηρ ἐκ ἐπίσκεψις αὐτός τρεῖς καί πεντήκοντα χιλιάς καί τετρακόσιοι
These are the families of Aser according to their numbering, forty-three 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)
וְאַשְׂרִיאֵל זַרְעִית אַשְׂרִיאֵלִי וְשֶׁכֶם זַרְעִית שֶׁכֶם
(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)
וְאַשְרִיאֵל גְנִיסַת אַשְרִיאֵל וְשֶׁכֶם גְנִיסַת שֶׁכֶם
Of Asriel, the family of Asriel; of Shekem, the family of Shekem.
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 6 words (5 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is ʼAsriʼêlîy (“Asrielites”). Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.
Discussion questions
- What does “Asrielites” (ʼAsriʼêlîy) contribute to the verse as a whole?
- This verse holds 2 words here found nowhere else in the Hebrew Bible. What might the rare words draw attention to?
- 4 words here appear for the first time in Scripture. What is being introduced at this debut?
- Joshua 17:2 shares the word «Ashriel» with this verse. How do the two illuminate each other?
- “family” occurs 2× in this one verse. What is the effect of the repetition?
- These translations render this verse differently. What is at stake in choosing one wording over another?
Things to notice
- 2 words in this verse appear nowhere else in the Hebrew Bible.
- 4 words make their first canonical appearance in Scripture here.
- These translations choose different wording for 6 words in this verse.
- “family” occurs 2× in this single verse.
- 5 distinct Hebrew lemmas span 6 words in this verse.