Numbers 26:43

Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex) Numbers 26:43 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 26:43 (World English Bible). Public Domain. Lemma interlinear Bible study tool, https://lemma.gebible.app/v/numbers/26/43.

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All the families of the Shuhamites, according to those who were numbered of them, were sixty-four thousand four hundred.
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  • World English Bible Public Domain
    All the families of the Shuhamites, according to those who were numbered of them, were sixty-four thousand four hundred.
  • King James Version Public Domain
    All the families of the Shuhamites, according to those that were numbered of them, were threescore and four thousand and four hundred.
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
    All the clans of the Shuhamite according to their counted ones were 64, 400.

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  • World English Bible Public Domain
    All the families of the Shuhamites, according to those who were numbered of them, were sixty-four thousand four hundred.
  • Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
    All of them were Shuhamite clans, and their registration numbered 64,400.
  • Majority Standard Bible Public Domain
    All of them were Shuhamite clans, and their registration numbered 64,400.
  • King James Version Public Domain
    All the families of the Shuhamites, according to those that were numbered of them, were threescore and four thousand and four hundred.
  • American Standard Version (1901) Public Domain
    All the families of the Shuhamites, according to those that were numbered of them, were threescore and four thousand and four hundred.
  • Revised Version (1885) Public Domain
    All the families of the Shuhamites, according to those that were numbered of them, were threescore and four thousand and four hundred.
  • Geneva Bible (1599) Public Domain
    All the families of the Shuhamites were after their nombers, threescore and foure thousand, and foure hundreth.
  • Douay-Rheims (1899) Public Domain
    All were Suhamites, whose number was sixty-four thousand four hundred.
  • Young's Literal Translation Public Domain
    all the families of the Shuhamite, by their numbered ones, `are' four and sixty thousand and four hundred.
  • Literal Standard Version CC BY-SA 4.0
    all the families of the Shuhamite by their numbered ones—sixty-four thousand and four hundred.
  • Unlocked Literal Bible CC BY-SA 4.0
    All the clans of the Shuhamites numbered 64,400 men.
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
    All the clans of the Shuhamite according to their counted ones were 64, 400.
  • Darby Bible Public Domain
    All the families of the Shuhamites, according to those that were numbered of them, were sixty-four thousand four hundred.
  • World Messianic Bible Public Domain
    All the families of the Shuhamites, according to those who were counted of them, were sixty-four thousand four hundred.
  • Webster's Bible Public Domain
    All the families of the Shuhamites according to those that were numbered of them were sixty and four thousand and four hundred.
  • Free Bible Version CC BY-SA 4.0
    They were all Shuhamite families, and they numbered 64,400.
  • Bible in Basic English Public Domain
    All the families of the Shuhamites, as they were numbered, were sixty-four thousand, four hundred.
  • JPS Tanakh (1917) Public Domain
    All the families of the Shuhamites, according to those that were numbered of them, were threescore and four thousand and four hundred.

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הַשּׁוּחָמִ֖י
Shûwchâmîy
H7749
“the · Shuhamites”
Particle, Definite Article + Noun, Gentilic, Masculine, Singular, Absolute
Part of Speech
Particle + Noun
Type
Gentilic
Gender
Masculine
Number
Singular
State
Absolute
Full BDB Definition

Origin: patronymic from H7748

TWOT: None

Shuhamites = see Shuam " pit-digger" - descendants of Shuham, the son of Dan
  1. כָּל kôl H3605 “all of” Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct
  2. מִשְׁפְּחֹ֥ת mishpâchâh H4940 “families of” Noun, Common, Feminine, Plural, Construct
  3. לִפְקֻדֵיהֶ֑ם pâqad H6485 “to/for · visited · them” Preposition + Verb, Qal, Participle Passive, Masculine, Plural, Construct + Suffix, Personal, 3rd Person, Masculine, Plural
  4. אַרְבָּעָ֧ה ʼarbaʻ H702 “four” Adjective, Cardinal number, Masculine, Singular, Absolute
  5. וְשִׁשִּׁ֛ים shishshîym H8346 “and · sixty” Conjunction + Adjective, Cardinal number, Both, Plural, Absolute
  6. אֶ֖לֶף ʼeleph H505 “thousand” Adjective, Cardinal number, Both, Singular, Absolute
  7. וְאַרְבַּ֥ע ʼarbaʻ H702 “and · four” Conjunction + Adjective, Cardinal number, Feminine, Singular, Absolute
  8. מֵאֽוֹת mêʼâh H3967 “hundred” Adjective, Cardinal number, Both, Plural, Absolute

About this verse

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9
words
8
distinct lemmas
Pentateuch
section

Notable vocabulary

The rarest word here is הַשּׁוּחָמִ֖י Shuhamites H7749 — appearing just 2 times in the whole Hebrew Bible.

Shared distinctive vocabulary

הַשּׁוּחָמִ֖י Shuhamites H7749 occurs in 2 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:

Grammatical profile

  • 1 verb
  • 3 nouns
  • 5 adjectives

Verb forms

  • לִפְקֻדֵיהֶ֑ם Qal · Participle Passive

Repetition

A word recurs within this verse — often emphatic in Hebrew:

  • אַרְבָּעָ֧ה four H702 ×2

Hebrew & Septuagint length

In English translation the verse runs 19 words from the Hebrew and 7 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 5 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 26:43 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.

  • Numbers 1:38–39 Of the children of Dan, 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 forth to war;
  • Numbers 2:25–26 "On the north side shall be the standard of the camp of Dan according to their divisions: and the prince of the children of Dan shall be Ahiezer the son of Ammishaddai.

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) 7 words vs World English Bible 19. 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 26:43 Masoretic · Westminster Leningrad Codex

כָּל מִשְׁפְּחֹ֥ת הַשּׁוּחָמִ֖י לִפְקֻדֵיהֶ֑ם אַרְבָּעָ֧ה וְשִׁשִּׁ֛ים אֶ֖לֶף וְאַרְבַּ֥ע מֵאֽוֹת

All the families of the Shuhamites, according to those who were numbered of them, were sixty-four thousand four hundred.

World English Bible · Public Domain

Greek LXX Numbers 26:43 Septuagint · lemma form

ὁ σωφαν δῆμος ὁ σωφανι

To Sophan, the family of the Sophanites.

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)
    כָל זַרְעֲיַת שׁוּחָם לְמִנְיָנֵיהוֹן שִׁתִּין וְאַרְבַּע אַלְפִין וְאַרְבַּע 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)
    כָּל גְנִיסַת שׁוּחָם לִסְכוּמְהוֹן שִׁיתִּין וְאַרְבְּעָא אַלְפִין וְאַרְבַּע מְאָה

    The whole family of Shuham, their number sixty-four thousand four 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 26:43 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 →

Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

Suhamites. Their father is called Huthim in Genesis, and also by the Septuagint. This branch of Dan was more numerous than formerly by 1700 soldiers.

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

All from one son and family; whereas of Benjamin, who had ten sons, and here five families, there were only 45,600, to show that the increase of families depends singly upon God’s blessing and good pleasure.

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

Threescore and four thousand and four hundred - All from one son and family, whereas of Benjamin who had ten sons, and five families, there were only forty five thousand and six hundred, to shew that the increase of families depends singly upon God's blessing and good pleasure.

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 (8 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is Shûwchâmîy (“Shuhamites”). The Greek Septuagint runs shorter here. A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.

Discussion questions

  1. What does “Shuhamites” (Shûwchâmîy) contribute to the verse as a whole?
  2. How does Numbers 26:42, which shares the word «Shuhamites», read alongside this verse?
  3. What does the repetition of “four” (2× in this one verse) do in this verse?
  4. The Septuagint runs shorter here than the Hebrew. What might account for the difference?
  5. 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?
  6. «לִפְקֻדֵיהֶ֑ם» is a Qal Participle Passive verb. How does that grammatical form shape the action described?
  7. Compare how Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary and Matthew Poole's English Annotations read this verse. Where do they agree or differ?

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