Numbers 26:48

Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex)

English Translation

The sons of Naphtali after their families: of Jahzeel, the family of the Jahzeelites; of Guni, the family of the Gunites;

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Highlights

2 hapax legomena — only here in the Hebrew Bible
2 first appearances in the Hebrew Bible

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הַיַּחְצְאֵלִ֑י

Yachtsᵉʼêlîy

H3184

“the · Jahzeelites”

Particle, Definite Article + Noun, Gentilic, Masculine, Singular, Absolute

Appears 1× in the Hebrew Bible
First appears here

Full BDB Definition

Origin: patronymically from H3183

TWOT: None

Jahzeelites = see Jahzeel " God divides" - the descendants of Jahzeel, the 1st son of Naphtali

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

2 hapax legomena — words that appear only here in the entire Hebrew Bible:

הַיַּחְצְאֵלִ֑י Jahzeelites H3184
הַגּוּנִֽי Gunites H1477

First appearance in Scripture

These words make their first canonical appearance in the Hebrew Bible here:

הַיַּחְצְאֵלִ֑י Jahzeelites H3184
הַגּוּנִֽי Gunites H1477

Shared distinctive vocabulary

לְיַ֨חְצְאֵ֔ל Jahzeel H3183 occurs in 2 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:

Genesis 46:24

Grammatical profile

9 nouns

Repetition

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

לְמִשְׁפְּחֹתָ֔ם family H4940 ×3

Hebrew & Septuagint length

In English translation the verse runs 21 words from the Hebrew and 22 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 15 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 26:48 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.

Genesis 46:24 The sons of Naphtali: Jahzeel, Guni, Jezer, and Shillem.
1 Chronicles 7:13 The sons of Naphtali: Jahziel, and Guni, and Jezer, and Shallum, the sons of Bilhah.

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Hebrew and Greek witnesses Masoretic Hebrew ↔ Greek Septuagint

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Hebrew Numbers 26:48 Masoretic · Westminster Leningrad Codex

בְּנֵ֤י נַפְתָּלִי֙ לְמִשְׁפְּחֹתָ֔ם לְיַ֨חְצְאֵ֔ל מִשְׁפַּ֖חַת הַיַּחְצְאֵלִ֑י לְגוּנִ֕י מִשְׁפַּ֖חַת הַגּוּנִֽי

The sons of Naphtali after their families: of Jahzeel, the family of the Jahzeelites; of Guni, the family of the Gunites;

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Greek LXX Numbers 26:48 Septuagint · lemma form

υἱός νεφθαλι κατά δῆμος αὐτός ὁ ασιηλ δῆμος ὁ ασιηλι ὁ γαυνι δῆμος ὁ γαυνι

The sons of Nephthali according to their families; to Asiel, the family of the Asielites; to Gauni, the family of the Gaunites.

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)

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Targum Onkelos Torah (Genesis–Deuteronomy)

בְּנֵי נַפְתָּלִי לְזַרְעֲיַתְהוֹן לְיַחְצְאֵל זַרְעִית יַחְצְאֵל לְגוּנִי זַרְעִית גוּנִי

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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 דְנַפְתָּלִי לִגְנִיסַתְהוֹן לְיַחְצְאֵל גְנִיסַת יַחְצְאֵל לְגוּנִי גְנִיסַת גוּנִי

The Beni Naphtali, according to their families, of Jaczeel, the family of Jaczeel; of Guni, the family of Guni.

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 26:48 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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John Gill's Exposition

And these are they that were numbered of the Levites, after their families,.... And they were numbered not with the rest of the tribes of Israel, but by themselves, as they were at the first numbering of the tribes; the three principal families of which were, the Gershonite, the Kohathite, and Merarite, so called from the three sons of Levi; but all their sons are not mentioned, of the sons of Gershon only Libni, from whom was the family of the Libnites; not Shimei, because, as Aben Ezra conjectures, either he had no sons, or, if he had, they died without any, and so there was no family from them; and of the sons of Kohath no mention is made of Uzziel, nor of Izhar, but in the Korhites, only of the Hebronite family from Hebron; and of Amram, whose wife Jochebed is spoken of as a daughter of Levi, whom Levi's wife, as Jarchi rightly supplies it, bore to him in Egypt, and which Jochebed was the mother of Aaron, Moses, and Miriam; and it is observed that Aaron had four sons, Nadab, Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar, the two first of which died for offering strange fire to the Lord, and the two last were now living: from Merari, another son of Levi, sprang two families, the Mahlite, and the Mushite; and the whole number of the Levites at this time taken was 23,000 males of a month old and upward; so that here was an increase of 1,000 males since the former numbering of them: the reason why they were not numbered with the other tribes was, because they had no part of the land of Israel divided to them, and had no inheritance in it.

And these are they that were numbered of the Levites, after their families,.... And they were numbered not with the rest of the tribes of Israel, but by themselves, as they were at the first numbering of the tribes; the three principal families of which were, the Gershonite, the Kohathite, and Merarite, so called from the three sons of Levi; but all their sons are not mentioned, of the sons of Gershon only Libni, from whom was the family of the Libnites; not Shimei, because, as Aben Ezra conjectures, either he had no sons, or, if he had, they died without any, and so there was no family from them; and of the sons of Kohath no mention is made of Uzziel, nor of Izhar, but in the Korhites, only of the Hebronite family from Hebron; and of Amram, whose wife Jochebed is spoken of as a daughter of Levi, whom Levi's wife, as Jarchi rightly supplies it, bore to him in Egypt, and which Jochebed was the mother of Aaron, Moses, and Miriam; and it is observed that Aaron had four sons, Nadab, Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar, the two first of which died for offering strange fire to the Lord, and the two last were now living: from Merari, another son of Levi, sprang two families, the Mahlite, and the Mushite; and the whole number of the Levites at this time taken was 23,000 males of a month old and upward; so that here was an increase of 1,000 males since the former numbering of them: the reason why they were not numbered with the other tribes was, because they had no part of the land of Israel divided to them, and had no inheritance in it.

Numbers 26:63

num 26:63

num 26:63

num 26:63These are they that were numbered by Moses and Eleazar the priest,.... That is, these were the Levites, their families, and the number of males in them, which was taken by Moses and Eleazar, who might be only concerned in numbering the Levites, of which tribe they were: and

who also numbered the children of Israel; all the tribes of them, with the assistance of their princes:

in the plains of Moab, by Jordan, near Jericho; as they were commanded by the Lord.

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

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible

Daniel D. Whedon

48-50. The sons of Naphtali — This record corresponds with Genesis and 1 Chronicles.

Daniel D. Whedon (gen. ed.), Commentary on the Old and New Testaments (1874–1909) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

The Pulpit Commentary

The sons of Naphtali. As in Gen_46:24 1Ch_7:13.

The Pulpit Commentary (1880–1919), ed. H.D.M. Spence-Jones & Joseph S. Exell — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

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)

45,400 men

"forty-five thousand four hundred men" (See: Numbers)

translationWords

Naphtali

unfoldingWord translationNotes — © Distant Shores Media and the Door43 World Missions Community, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Source: git.door43.org/Door43/en_tn.

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 Yachtsᵉʼêlîy (“Jahzeelites”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.

Discussion questions

The word Yachtsᵉʼêlîy carries the sense “Jahzeelites.” How does it shape the verse?
This verse holds 2 words here found nowhere else in the Hebrew Bible. What might the rare words draw attention to?
2 words here appear for the first time in Scripture. What is being introduced at this debut?
Genesis 46:24 shares the word «Jahzeel» with this verse. How do the two illuminate each other?
“family” occurs 3× 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?
Reading how John Gill's Exposition and Whedon's Commentary on the Bible read this verse, where do the two commentators agree and where do they part?

Things to notice

2 words in this verse appear nowhere else in the Hebrew Bible.
2 words make their first canonical appearance in Scripture here.
This verse counts 9 Hebrew ↔ 15 Greek words.
These translations choose different wording for 10 words in this verse.
“family” occurs 3× in this single verse.