Numbers 26:46

Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex) Numbers 26:46 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 26:46 (World English Bible). Public Domain. Lemma interlinear Bible study tool, https://lemma.gebible.app/v/numbers/26/46.

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The name of the daughter of Asher was Serah.
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  • World English Bible Public Domain
    The name of the daughter of Asher was Serah.
  • King James Version Public Domain
    And the name of the daughter of Asher was Sarah.
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    And the name of the daughter of Asher was Serah.

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  • World English Bible Public Domain
    The name of the daughter of Asher was Serah.
  • Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
    And the name of Asher’s daughter was Serah.
  • Majority Standard Bible Public Domain
    And the name of Asher’s daughter was Serah.
  • King James Version Public Domain
    And the name of the daughter of Asher was Sarah.
  • American Standard Version (1901) Public Domain
    And the name of the daughter of Asher was Serah.
  • Revised Version (1885) Public Domain
    And the name of the daughter of Asher was Serah.
  • Geneva Bible (1599) Public Domain
    And the name of the daughter of Asher was Sarah.
  • Douay-Rheims (1899) Public Domain
    And the name of the daughter of Aser, was Sara.
  • Young's Literal Translation Public Domain
    And the name of the daughter of Asher `is' Sarah.
  • Literal Standard Version CC BY-SA 4.0
    And the name of the daughter of Asher [is] Sarah.
  • Unlocked Literal Bible CC BY-SA 4.0
    The name of Asher's daughter was Serah.
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
    And the name of the daughter of Asher was Serah.
  • Darby Bible Public Domain
    And the name of the daughter of Asher was Serah.
  • World Messianic Bible Public Domain
    The name of the daughter of Asher was Serah.
  • Webster's Bible Public Domain
    And the name of the daughter of Asher was Sarah.
  • Free Bible Version CC BY-SA 4.0
    The name of Asher's daughter was Serah.
  • Bible in Basic English Public Domain
    And the name of the daughter of Asher was Serah.
  • JPS Tanakh (1917) Public Domain
    And the name of the daughter of Asher was Serah.

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Notable vocabulary

The rarest word here is שָֽׂרַח Serah H8294 — appearing just 3 times in the whole Hebrew Bible.

Shared distinctive vocabulary

שָֽׂרַח Serah H8294 occurs in 3 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:

Grammatical profile

  • 4 nouns

Hebrew & Septuagint length

In English translation the verse runs 9 words from the Hebrew and 26 from the Septuagint (LXX English) — the Septuagint runs noticeably longer here. See the side-by-side →

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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.

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Topical passages linked to Numbers 26:46 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.

  • Genesis 46:17 The sons of Asher: Imnah, Ishvah, Ishvi, Beriah, and Serah their sister. The sons of Beriah: Heber and Malchiel.

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Hebrew and Greek witnesses Masoretic Hebrew ↔ Greek Septuagint

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Here the Septuagint runs noticeably longer than the Hebrew — LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) 26 words vs World English Bible 9. A rough length comparison of the two English translations, not a word-level alignment — read both below.

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Hebrew Numbers 26:46 Masoretic · Westminster Leningrad Codex

וְשֵׁ֥ם בַּת אָשֵׁ֖ר שָֽׂרַח

The name of the daughter of Asher was Serah.

World English Bible · Public Domain

Greek LXX Numbers 26:46 Septuagint · lemma form

καί υἱός δαν κατά δῆμος αὐτός ὁ σαμι δῆμος ὁ σαμι οὗτος δῆμος δαν κατά δῆμος αὐτός

And the sons of Dan according to their families; to Same, the family of the Sameites; these are the families of Dan according to their families.

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 →

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  1. Targum Onkelos Torah (Genesis–Deuteronomy)
    וְשׁוּם בַּת אָשֵׁר סָרַח

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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.

  2. Targum Pseudo-Jonathan Torah (Genesis–Deuteronomy)
    וְשׁוּם בְּרַת אָשֵׁר סָרַח דְאַדְבְּרַת בְּשִׁיתִּין רִיבְוָן מַלְאָכִין וְאִיתְעָלַת לְגִנְתָא דְעֵדֶן בְּחַיָיהָא מִן בִּגְלַל דְבַשְרַת יַת יַעֲקב דְעַד כְּדוּן יוֹסֵף קְיַים

    The name of the daughter of Asher was Sarach, who was conducted by six myriads of angels, and taken into the Garden of Eden alive, because she had made known to Jacob that Joseph was living.

    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 26:46 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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Matthew Poole's English Annotations

Who seems to be here mentioned because she was a woman of masculine wisdom, or courage, or other virtue.

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

Rashi

Rabbi Shlomo Yitzchaki (Rashi)

ושם בת אשר שרח AND THE NAME OF THE DAUGHTER OF ASHER WAS SERAH — Because she still remained alive after all these long years (Sotah 13a) it exceptionally mentions her here (Seder Olam 9).

Rashi on the Tanakh — English translations: “The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg” (CC BY 4.0); “Pentateuch with Rashi's commentary by M. Rosenbaum and A.M. Silbermann, 1929-1934” (public domain); “The Metsudah Tanach series, Lakewood, N.J” (CC BY 4.0); and “The Book of Joshua, Metsudah Publications, 1997” (CC BY 4.0). Text via Sefaria.

Ramban (Nachmanides)

Rabbi Moshe ben Nachman (Ramban / Nachmanides)

AND THE NAME OF THE DAUGHTER OF ASHER WAS SERACH. “Because she was still alive [at the end of Israel’s period of bondage in Egypt, and after forty years in the desert, and was one of the seventy people mentioned in Genesis 46 who went down to Egypt with Jacob], Scripture mentions her here.” This is Rashi’s language. And Onkelos translated [the verse as follows]: “and the name of the daughter of Asher’s wife, was Serach.” By this he intended to say that she was a daughter that possesseth an inheritance [in the Land in her own right], and therefore Scripture mentions her here just as it mentions the daughters of Zelophehad, for she [Serach] is included amongst [those referred to in the verse], Unto these the Land shall be divided. Now had she been the daughter of Asher himself, she would not have inherited [a portion in the Land], since he had male children [as stated in Verse 44]. But she [Serach] was the daughter of his [Asher’s] wife from another man [namely Asher’s wife’s first husband], who did not have a son; therefore his inheritance [in the Land] passed to his daughter. In that case, the reason [why Scripture uses the phrase] and Serach their sister. Ramban here is pointing out that the verse avoids calling her Asher’s daughter, and describes her especially as the sister of his sons, because she was in actual fact not his daughter at all, but only their half-sister. is because she was a [half-]sister to Asher’s sons, but was not his daughter. And therefore it says [here], And the name of the daughter of Asher was Serach, and it does not say “and Asher’s daughter [was Serach],” because [the intention of the verse] is to say that her name was [i.e., she was known as] “Asher’s daughter,” and she was [actually] called Serach. the person known as ‘the daughter of Asher’ was Serach.” Now if she were still alive [at the end of the period of Israel’s sojourn in the desert], as Rashi explained, then she was like the daughters of Zelophehad as regards [receiving] an inheritance [in the Land in her own right], but if she had died [by then, Scripture mentions her here to indicate that] her family received [a portion in the Land] because of her [since she was amongst those who went down to Egypt].According to the simple meaning of Scripture, Serach had a large family which was called by her name, and she is included in the phrase, These are the families of the sons of Asher according to those that were numbered. Scripture, however, did not want to trace their ancestry to a woman, by saying: “Of Serach, the family of the Serachites,” but instead alluded to this matter [briefly].

Ramban (Nachmanides) on the Tanakh — English translation: “Commentary on the Torah by Ramban (Nachmanides). Translated and annotated by Charles B. Chavel. New York, Shilo Pub. House, 1971-1976” (CC BY 4.0). Text via Sefaria.

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Numbers, in the Pentateuch, opens this verse with 4 words (4 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is Serach (“Serah”). The Greek Septuagint runs longer here. A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.

Discussion questions

  1. The word Serach carries the sense “Serah.” How does it shape the verse?
  2. Genesis 46:17 shares the word «Serah» with this verse. How do the two illuminate each other?
  3. Compared with the Hebrew, the Septuagint runs longer here. What questions does that raise?
  4. 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?
  5. Reading how Matthew Poole's English Annotations and Rashi read this verse, where do the two commentators agree and where do they part?

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