Numbers 26:50

Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex) Numbers 26:50 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 26:50 (World English Bible). Public Domain. Lemma interlinear Bible study tool, https://lemma.gebible.app/v/numbers/26/50.

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These are the families of Naphtali according to their families; and those who were numbered of them were forty-five thousand four hundred.
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  • World English Bible Public Domain
    These are the families of Naphtali according to their families; and those who were numbered of them were forty-five thousand four hundred.
  • King James Version Public Domain
    These are the families of Naphtali according to their families: and they that were numbered of them were forty and five thousand and four hundred.
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
    These were the clans of Naphtali according to their clans. And their counted ones were 45, 400.

unfoldingWord Literal Text — © unfoldingWord, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Word-aligned USFM3 via Door43 (git.door43.org/unfoldingWord/en_ult).

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  • World English Bible Public Domain
    These are the families of Naphtali according to their families; and those who were numbered of them were forty-five thousand four hundred.
  • Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
    These were the clans of Naphtali, and their registration numbered 45,400.
  • Majority Standard Bible Public Domain
    These were the clans of Naphtali, and their registration numbered 45,400.
  • King James Version Public Domain
    These are the families of Naphtali according to their families: and they that were numbered of them were forty and five thousand and four hundred.
  • American Standard Version (1901) Public Domain
    These are the families of Naphtali according to their families; and they that were numbered of them were forty and five thousand and four hundred.
  • Revised Version (1885) Public Domain
    These are the families of Naphtali according to their families: and they that were numbered of them were forty and five thousand and four hundred.
  • Geneva Bible (1599) Public Domain
    These are the families of Naphtali according to their housholdes, and their nomber, fiue and fourtie thousande and foure hundreth.
  • Douay-Rheims (1899) Public Domain
    These are the kindreds of the sons of Nephtali by their families: whose number was forty-five thousand four hundred.
  • Young's Literal Translation Public Domain
    These `are' families of Naphtali by their families, and their numbered ones `are' five and forty thousand and four hundred.
  • Literal Standard Version CC BY-SA 4.0
    These [are] families of Naphtali by their families, and their numbered ones [are] forty-five thousand and four hundred.
  • Unlocked Literal Bible CC BY-SA 4.0
    These were the clans of Naphtali's descendants, who numbered 45,400 men.
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
    These were the clans of Naphtali according to their clans. And their counted ones were 45, 400.
  • Darby Bible Public Domain
    These are the families of Naphtali, according to their families; and they that were numbered of them were forty-five thousand four hundred.
  • World Messianic Bible Public Domain
    These are the families of Naphtali according to their families; and those who were counted of them were forty-five thousand four hundred.
  • Webster's Bible Public Domain
    These are the families of Naphtali according to their families: and they that were numbered of them, were forty and five thousand and four hundred.
  • Free Bible Version CC BY-SA 4.0
    These were the families descended from Naphtali, and they numbered 45,400.
  • Bible in Basic English Public Domain
    These are the families of Naphtali by their families: and those who were numbered of them were forty-five thousand, four hundred.
  • JPS Tanakh (1917) Public Domain
    These are the families of Naphtali according to their families; and they that were numbered of them were forty and five thousand and four hundred.

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נַפְתָּלִ֖י
Naphtâlîy
H5321
“Naphtali”
Noun, Proper
Part of Speech
Noun
Type
Proper
Full BDB Definition

Origin: from H6617

TWOT: None

Naphtali = "wrestling" - the 5th son of Jacob and the 2nd by Bilhah the handmaid of Rachel (noun proper masculine) - the tribe descended from Naphtali the son of Jacob (noun proper masculine) - the territory assigned to the tribe of Naphtali (noun proper locative)
  1. אֵ֛לֶּה ʼêl-leh H428 “these” Pronoun, Demonstrative, Common, Plural
  2. מִשְׁפְּחֹ֥ת mishpâchâh H4940 “families of” Noun, Common, Feminine, Plural, Construct
  3. לְמִשְׁפְּחֹתָ֑ם mishpâchâh H4940 “to/for · families · their” Preposition + Noun, Common, Feminine, Plural, Construct + Suffix, Personal, 3rd Person, Masculine, Plural
  4. וּפְקֻ֣דֵיהֶ֔ם pâqad H6485 “and · visited · them” Conjunction + Verb, Qal, Participle Passive, Masculine, Plural, Construct + Suffix, Personal, 3rd Person, Masculine, Plural
  5. חֲמִשָּׁ֧ה châmêsh H2568 “five” Adjective, Cardinal number, Masculine, Singular, Absolute
  6. וְאַרְבָּעִ֛ים ʼarbâʻîym H705 “and · forty” Conjunction + Adjective, Cardinal number, Both, Plural, Absolute
  7. אֶ֖לֶף ʼeleph H505 “thousand” Adjective, Cardinal number, Both, Singular, Absolute
  8. וְאַרְבַּ֥ע ʼarbaʻ H702 “and · four” Conjunction + Adjective, Cardinal number, Feminine, Singular, Absolute
  9. מֵאֽוֹת mêʼâh H3967 “hundred” Adjective, Cardinal number, Both, Plural, Absolute

About this verse

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10
words
9
distinct lemmas
Pentateuch
section

Shared distinctive vocabulary

נַפְתָּלִ֖י Naphtali H5321 occurs in 47 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:

Grammatical profile

  • 1 verb
  • 3 nouns
  • 5 adjectives
  • 1 pronoun

Verb forms

  • וּפְקֻ֣דֵיהֶ֔ם Qal · Participle Passive

Repetition

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

  • מִשְׁפְּחֹ֥ת family H4940 ×2

Hebrew & Septuagint length

In English translation the verse runs 22 words from the Hebrew and 15 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 10 Hebrew tokens and 12 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 26:50 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.

  • Numbers 1:42–43 Of the children of Naphtali, 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 2:29–30 "The tribe of Naphtali: and the prince of the children of Naphtali shall be Ahira the son of Enan.

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) 15 words vs World English Bible 22. 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 26:50 Masoretic · Westminster Leningrad Codex

אֵ֛לֶּה מִשְׁפְּחֹ֥ת נַפְתָּלִ֖י לְמִשְׁפְּחֹתָ֑ם וּפְקֻ֣דֵיהֶ֔ם חֲמִשָּׁ֧ה וְאַרְבָּעִ֛ים אֶ֖לֶף וְאַרְבַּ֥ע מֵאֽוֹת

These are the families of Naphtali according to their families; and those who were numbered of them were forty-five thousand four hundred.

World English Bible · Public Domain

Greek LXX Numbers 26:50 Septuagint · lemma form

οὗτος δῆμος νεφθαλι ἐκ ἐπίσκεψις αὐτός πέντε καί τεσσαράκοντα χιλιάς καί τετρακόσιοι

These are the families of Nephthali, according to their numbering, forty thousand and three hundred.

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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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)
    אִלֵין זַרְעֲיַת נַפְתָּלִי לְזַרְעֲיַתְהוֹן וּמִנְיָנֵיהוֹן אַרְבְּעִין וְחַמְשָׁא אַלְפִין וְאַרְבַּע מֵאָה

    (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)
    אִלֵין גְנִיסַת נַפְתָּלִי לִגְנִיסַתְהוֹן וּסְכוּמְהוֹן אַרְבְּעִין וְחַמְשָׁא אַלְפִין וְאַרְבַּע מְאָה

    The Beni Naphtali, according to their families, and their number forty-five 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 26:50 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

Nephtali, who had lost 8000; so that this division had only 5600 more. (Haydock)

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).

Lesson kit

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Numbers, in the Pentateuch, opens this verse with 10 words (9 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is Naphtâlîy (“Naphtali”). The Greek Septuagint runs shorter here. A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.

Discussion questions

  1. The word Naphtâlîy carries the sense “Naphtali.” How does it shape the verse?
  2. How does Genesis 30:8, which shares the word «Naphtali», read alongside this verse?
  3. What does the repetition of “family” (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. These translations render this verse differently. What is at stake in choosing one wording over another?
  6. «וּפְקֻ֣דֵיהֶ֔ם» is a Qal Participle Passive verb. How does that grammatical form shape the action described?

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