Numbers 26:60

Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex)

English Translation

To Aaron were born Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar.

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אֲבִיה֑וּא

ʼĂbîyhûwʼ

H30

“Abihu”

Noun, Proper

Appears 12× in the Hebrew Bible
First appears at Exodus 6:23

Full BDB Definition

Origin: from H1 and H1931

TWOT: None

Abihu = "he is (my) father" - a son of Aaron destroyed for sacrificing strange fire to God

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 →

10: words
7: distinct lemmas
Pentateuch: section

Notable vocabulary

The rarest word here is אֲבִיה֑וּא Abihu H30 — appearing just 12 times in the whole Hebrew Bible.

Shared distinctive vocabulary

אֲבִיה֑וּא Abihu H30 occurs in 12 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:

Grammatical profile

1 verb
5 nouns
4 particles

Verb forms

וַיִּוָּלֵ֣ד Niphal · Sequential Imperfect

Hebrew & Septuagint length

In English translation the verse runs 10 words from the Hebrew and 13 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 10 Hebrew tokens and 13 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 26:60 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.

Numbers 3:2 These are the names of the sons of Aaron: Nadab the firstborn, and Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar.
Numbers 3:8 They shall keep all the furnishings of the Tent of Meeting, and the obligations of the children of Israel, to do the service of the tabernacle.

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.

Hebrew Numbers 26:60 Masoretic · Westminster Leningrad Codex

וַיִּוָּלֵ֣ד לְאַהֲרֹ֔ן אֶת נָדָ֖ב וְאֶת אֲבִיה֑וּא אֶת אֶלְעָזָ֖ר וְאֶת אִיתָמָֽר

To Aaron were born Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar.

World English Bible · Public Domain

Greek LXX Numbers 26:60 Septuagint · lemma form

καί γεννάω ὁ ἀαρών ὅς τε ναδαβ καί αβιουδ καί ελεαζαρ καί ιθαμαρ

And to Aaron were born both Nadab and Abiud, and Eleazar, and Ithamar.

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)

וְאִתְיְלִיד לְאַהֲרֹן יַת נָדָב וְיַת אֲבִיהוּא יַת אֶלְעָזָר וְיַת אִיתָמָר

(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)

וְאִתְיְלִיד לְאַהֲרן יַת נָדָב וְיַת אֲבִיהוּא יַת אֶלְעָזָר וְיַת אִיתָמָר

And to Aharon were born Nadab and Abihu, Elazar and Ithamar.

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 26:60 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 →

Keil & Delitzsch

C. F. Keil & F. Delitzsch

Sons of Aaron: cf. Num 3:2 and Num 3:4; Exo 6:23; Lev 10:1, Lev 10:2.

Keil & Delitzsch — Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament (1861–1891) — public domain (CC PDM 1.0). Text via the HelloAO Bible API. (Old Testament only.)

unfoldingWord translationNotes

Door43 World Missions Community

Nadab ... Abihu ... Ithamar

See how you translated these men's names in Numbers 3:2.

they offered before Yahweh unacceptable fire

Here the word "fire" is used to refer to "burning incense." See how you translated a similar phrase in Numbers 3:4. AT: "they burned an incense offering to Yahweh in a way that he did not approve of" (See: Metonymy)

who were counted

This can be stated in active form. AT: "whom the leaders counted" (See: Active or Passive)

twenty-three thousand

"23,000" (See: Numbers)

one month old and up

"one month old and older"

they were not counted

This can be stated in active form. AT: "but the leaders did not count them" (See: Active or Passive)

because no inheritance was given to them

This can be stated in active form. Here "inheritance" refers to land inherited. The full meaning of this statement can be made clear. AT: "because Yahweh said they would not receive any land as an inheritance" (See: Active or Passive and Assumed Knowledge and Implicit Information)

translationWords

die

sacrifice

Yahweh

fire

month

Israel

descend

inherit

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 10 words (7 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is ʼĂbîyhûwʼ (“Abihu”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.

Discussion questions

How does “Abihu” (ʼĂbîyhûwʼ) shape what this verse is saying?
Exodus 6:23 shares the word «Abihu» with this verse. How do the two illuminate each other?
The verb «וַיִּוָּלֵ֣ד» is Niphal Sequential Imperfect. How does its form color the action?
Reading how Keil & Delitzsch and unfoldingWord translationNotes read this verse, where do the two commentators agree and where do they part?

Things to notice

This verse counts 10 Hebrew ↔ 13 Greek words.
7 distinct Hebrew lemmas span 10 words in this verse.