וּשְׁמִידָ֕ע מִשְׁפַּ֖חַת הַשְּׁמִידָעִ֑י וְחֵ֕פֶר מִשְׁפַּ֖חַת הַֽחֶפְרִֽי
and [of] Shemida, the family of the Shemidaites; and [of] Hepher, the family of the Hepherites.
World English Bible · Public Domain
Numbers 26:32
Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex) Numbers 26:32 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] Shemida, the family of the Shemidaites; and [of] Hepher, the family of the Hepherites.
Highlights
- 2 hapax legomena — only here in the Hebrew Bible
- 4 first appearances in the Hebrew Bible
- Septuagint runs shorter here — compare
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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] Shemida, the family of the Shemidaites; and [of] Hepher, the family of the Hepherites.
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King James Version Public Domain
And of Shemida, the family of the Shemidaites: and of Hepher, the family of the Hepherites.
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
and Shemida, the clan of the Shemidaite; and Hepher, the clan of the Hepherite.
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] Shemida, the family of the Shemidaites; and [of] Hepher, the family of the Hepherites.
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Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
the Shemidaite clan from Shemida, and the Hepherite clan from Hepher.
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Majority Standard Bible Public Domain
the Shemidaite clan from Shemida, and the Hepherite clan from Hepher.
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King James Version Public Domain
And of Shemida, the family of the Shemidaites: and of Hepher, the family of the Hepherites.
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American Standard Version (1901) Public Domain
and `of' Shemida, the family of the Shemidaites; and `of' Hepher, the family of the Hepherites.
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Revised Version (1885) Public Domain
and of Shemida, the family of the Shemidaites: and of Hepher, the family of the Hepherites.
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Geneva Bible (1599) Public Domain
Of Shemida, the familie of the Shemidaites: of Hepher, the familie of the Hepherites.
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Douay-Rheims (1899) Public Domain
And Semida, of whom is the family of the Semidaites: and Hepher, of whom is the family of the Hepherites.
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Young's Literal Translation Public Domain
and `of' Shemida the family of the Shemidaite; and `of' Hepher the family of the Hepherite.
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Literal Standard Version CC BY-SA 4.0
and of Shemida the family of the Shemidaite; and of Hepher the family of the Hepherite.
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Unlocked Literal Bible CC BY-SA 4.0
through Shemida, the clan of the Shemidaites, through Hepher, the clan of the Hepherites.
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
and Shemida, the clan of the Shemidaite; and Hepher, the clan of the Hepherite.
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Darby Bible Public Domain
and of Shemida, the family of the Shemidaites; and of Hepher, the family of the Hepherites.
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World Messianic Bible Public Domain
and Shemida, the family of the Shemidaites; and Hepher, the family of the Hepherites.
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Webster's Bible Public Domain
And of Shemida, the family of the Shemidaites: and of Hepher, the family of the Hepherites.
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Free Bible Version CC BY-SA 4.0
Shemida, ancestor of the Shemidaite family; and Hepher, ancestor of the Hepherite family.
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Bible in Basic English Public Domain
And of Shemida, the family of the Shemidaites: and of Hepher, the family of the Hepherites.
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JPS Tanakh (1917) Public Domain
and of Shemida, the family of the Shemidaites; and of Hepher, the family of the Hepherites.
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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הַשְּׁמִידָעִ֑י
Shᵉmîydâʻîy
H8062
“the · Shemidaites”
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
Shemidaites = see Shemida " wise"
- descendants of Shemida, the son of Gilead and grandson of Manasseh
- וּשְׁמִידָ֕ע Shᵉmîydâʻ H8061 “and · Shemida” Conjunction + Noun, Proper
- מִשְׁפַּ֖חַת mishpâchâh H4940 “family of” Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Construct
- הַשְּׁמִידָעִ֑י Shᵉmîydâʻîy H8062 “the · Shemidaites” Particle, Definite Article + Noun, Gentilic, Masculine, Singular, Absolute
- וְחֵ֕פֶר Chêpher H2660 “and · Hepher” Conjunction + Noun, Proper
- מִשְׁפַּ֖חַת mishpâchâh H4940 “family of” Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Construct
- הַֽחֶפְרִֽי Chephrîy H2662 “the · Hepherites” 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
וּשְׁמִידָ֕ע Shemida H8061 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 11 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 6 Hebrew tokens and 8 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.
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) 11 words vs World English Bible 16. 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.
υἱός ιωσηφ κατά δῆμος αὐτός μανασσή καί ἐφράιμ
The sons of Joseph according to their families, Manasse and Ephraim.
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)
וּשְׁמִידָע זַרְעִית שְׁמִידָע וְחֵפֶר זַרְעִית חֵפֶר
(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)
וּשְׁמִידָע גְנִיסַת שְׁמִידָע וְחֵפֶר גְנִיסַת חֵפֶר
Of Shemida, the family of Shemida; of Hepher, the family of Hepher.
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 Shᵉmîydâʻîy (“Shemidaites”). The Greek Septuagint runs shorter here. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.
Discussion questions
- The word Shᵉmîydâʻîy carries the sense “Shemidaites.” How does it shape the verse?
- 2 words here appear nowhere else in the Hebrew Bible. Why might the author reach for such rare wording?
- 4 words make their first appearance in Scripture here. What does this debut establish?
- How does Joshua 17:2, which shares the word «Shemida», read alongside this verse?
- What does the repetition of “family” (2× in this one verse) do in this verse?
- The Septuagint runs shorter here than the Hebrew. What might account for the difference?
- These translations render this verse differently; the difference is in the English rendering, not the original. What questions does that raise?
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.
- This verse counts 6 Hebrew ↔ 8 Greek words.
- These translations choose different wording for 6 words in this verse.
- “family” occurs 2× in this single verse.