לְיֵ֕צֶר מִשְׁפַּ֖חַת הַיִּצְרִ֑י לְשִׁלֵּ֕ם מִשְׁפַּ֖חַת הַשִּׁלֵּמִֽי
of Jezer, the family of the Jezerites; of Shillem, the family of the Shillemites.
World English Bible · Public Domain
Numbers 26:49
Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex) Numbers 26:49 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
of Jezer, the family of the Jezerites; of Shillem, the family of the Shillemites.
Highlights
- 2 hapax legomena — only here in the Hebrew Bible
- 2 first appearances in the Hebrew Bible
Download a study sheet
One document with this verse’s original text, its word-by-word gloss line, the meaning frame, cross-references with their text, attributed commentary, and full source and license credits — printable, and it pastes into notes with its structure intact.
This verse Autodidact and up
A passage Seminary Student
Up to 50 verses in one chapter. A passage sheet keeps up to 6 commentary sources and 12 cross-references per verse, in the order this page ranks them, and says so on the sheet whenever that leaves anything out. Ask for a single verse and you get the Autodidact verse sheet above.
Everything on this page stays free to read, with no account — the sheet is a download of what is already on screen, not access to it.
Want to remove ads?
Support Godless Engineer
Compare translations 3
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.
-
World English Bible Public Domain
of Jezer, the family of the Jezerites; of Shillem, the family of the Shillemites.
-
King James Version Public Domain
Of Jezer, the family of the Jezerites: of Shillem, the family of the Shillemites.
-
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
of Jezer, the clan of the Jezerite; of Shillem, the clan of the Shillemite.
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.
-
World English Bible Public Domain
of Jezer, the family of the Jezerites; of Shillem, the family of the Shillemites.
-
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
the Jezerite clan from Jezer, and the Shillemite clan from Shillem.
-
Majority Standard Bible Public Domain
the Jezerite clan from Jezer, and the Shillemite clan from Shillem.
-
King James Version Public Domain
Of Jezer, the family of the Jezerites: of Shillem, the family of the Shillemites.
-
American Standard Version (1901) Public Domain
of Jezer, the family of the Jezerites; of Shillem, the family of the Shillemites.
-
Revised Version (1885) Public Domain
of Jezer, the family of the Jezerites: of Shillem, the family of the Shillemites.
-
Geneva Bible (1599) Public Domain
Of Iezer, the familie of the Izrites: of Shillem, the familie of the Shillemites.
-
Douay-Rheims (1899) Public Domain
Jeser, of whom is the family of the Jeserites: Sellem, of whom is the family of the Sellemites.
-
Young's Literal Translation Public Domain
of Jezer the family of the Jezerite; of Shillem the family of the Shillemite.
-
Literal Standard Version CC BY-SA 4.0
of Jezer the family of the Jezerite; of Shillem the family of the Shillemite.
-
Unlocked Literal Bible CC BY-SA 4.0
through Jezer, the clan of the Jezerites, through Shillem, the clan of the Shillemites.
-
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
of Jezer, the clan of the Jezerite; of Shillem, the clan of the Shillemite.
-
Darby Bible Public Domain
of Jezer, the family of the Jezerites; of Shillem, the family of the Shillemites.
-
World Messianic Bible Public Domain
of Jezer, the family of the Jezerites; of Shillem, the family of the Shillemites.
-
Webster's Bible Public Domain
Of Jezer, the family of the Jezerites: of Shillem, the family of the Shillemites.
-
Free Bible Version CC BY-SA 4.0
Jezer, ancestor of the Jezerite family; and Shillem, ancestor of the Sheillemite family.
-
Bible in Basic English Public Domain
Of Jezer, the family of the Jezerites: of Shillem, the family of the Shillemites.
-
JPS Tanakh (1917) Public Domain
of Jezer, the family of the Jezerites; of Shillem, the family of the Shillemites.
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).
Word by word
More ways to search: Search by grammar → Find every occurrence → Compare this word →
Practice this passage: Drill this verse → Learn its vocabulary →
הַיִּצְרִ֑י
Yitsrîy
H3340
“the · Jezerites”
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
Jezerites = "imagination: form: purpose"
- descendants of Jezer the son of Naphtali
- לְיֵ֕צֶר Yêtser H3337 “to/for · Jezer” Preposition + Noun, Proper
- מִשְׁפַּ֖חַת mishpâchâh H4940 “family of” Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Construct
- הַיִּצְרִ֑י Yitsrîy H3340 “the · Jezerites” Particle, Definite Article + Noun, Gentilic, Masculine, Singular, Absolute
- לְשִׁלֵּ֕ם Shillêm H8006 “to/for · Shillem” Preposition + Noun, Proper
- מִשְׁפַּ֖חַת mishpâchâh H4940 “family of” Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Construct
- הַשִּׁלֵּמִֽי Shillêmîy H8016 “the · Shillemites” 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
לְשִׁלֵּ֕ם Shillem H8006 occurs in 2 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 14 words from the Hebrew and 14 from the Septuagint (LXX English) — the same length.
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 10 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
1Topical passages linked to Numbers 26:49 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.
- 1 Chronicles 7:13 The sons of Naphtali: Jahziel, and Guni, and Jezer, and Shallum, the sons of Bilhah.
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.
These are two independent witnesses, not word-aligned to each other, and the Septuagint is shown in lemma (dictionary) form.
ὁ ιεσερ δῆμος ὁ ιεσερι ὁ σελλημ δῆμος ὁ σελλημι
To Jeser, the family of the Jeserites; to Sellem, the family of the Sellemites.
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.
-
Targum Onkelos Torah (Genesis–Deuteronomy)
לְיֵצֶר זַרְעִית יֵצֶר לְשִׁלֵם זַרְעִית שִׁלֵם
(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.
-
Targum Pseudo-Jonathan Torah (Genesis–Deuteronomy)
לְיֵצֶר גְנִיסַת יֵצֶר לְשִׁלֵם גְנִיסַת שִׁלֵם
Of Jezer, the family of Jezer; of Shillem, the family of Shillem.
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 Yitsrîy (“Jezerites”). Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.
Discussion questions
- What does “Jezerites” (Yitsrîy) contribute to the verse as a whole?
- 2 words here appear nowhere else in the Hebrew Bible. Why might the author reach for such rare wording?
- 2 words make their first appearance in Scripture here. What does this debut establish?
- How does Genesis 46:24, which shares the word «Shillem», read alongside this verse?
- What does the repetition of “family” (2× in this one verse) do in this verse?
- 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?
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 6 Hebrew ↔ 10 Greek words.
- These translations choose different wording for 6 words in this verse.
- “family” occurs 2× in this single verse.