וְעִשָּׂרׄוֹן֙ עִשָּׂר֔וֹן לַכֶּ֖בֶשׂ הָאֶחָ֑ד לְאַרְבָּעָ֥ה עָשָׂ֖ר כְּבָשִֽׂים
and a tenth part for every lamb of the fourteen lambs;
World English Bible · Public Domain
Numbers 29:15
Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex) Numbers 29:15 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
and a tenth part for every lamb of the fourteen lambs;
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The same verse in 3 English versions, stacked beneath the original-language interlinear above. Click any original word for its lexicon entry.
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World English Bible Public Domain
and a tenth part for every lamb of the fourteen lambs;
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King James Version Public Domain
And a several tenth deal to each lamb of the fourteen lambs:
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
and a tenth, a tenth for one male lamb for the 14 male lambs.
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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Every available English version of this verse, each an independent rendering of the whole verse.
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World English Bible Public Domain
and a tenth part for every lamb of the fourteen lambs;
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Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
and a tenth of an ephah with each of the fourteen lambs.
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Majority Standard Bible Public Domain
and a tenth of an ephah with each of the fourteen lambs.
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King James Version Public Domain
And a several tenth deal to each lamb of the fourteen lambs:
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American Standard Version (1901) Public Domain
and a tenth part for every lamb of the fourteen lambs;
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Revised Version (1885) Public Domain
and a several tenth part for every lamb of the fourteen lambs:
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Geneva Bible (1599) Public Domain
And one tenth deale vnto eche of ye fourteene lambes,
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Douay-Rheims (1899) Public Domain
And the tenth of a tenth to every lamb, being in all fourteen lambs:
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Young's Literal Translation Public Domain
and a several tenth deal to the one lamb, for the fourteen lambs,
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Literal Standard Version CC BY-SA 4.0
and a tenth—a tenth part for one lamb, for the fourteen lambs;
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Unlocked Literal Bible CC BY-SA 4.0
and a tenth of an ephah for each of the fourteen lambs.
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
and a tenth, a tenth for one male lamb for the 14 male lambs.
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Darby Bible Public Domain
and one tenth part for each lamb of the fourteen lambs;
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World Messianic Bible Public Domain
and one tenth for every lamb of the fourteen lambs;
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Webster's Bible Public Domain
And a several tenth-part to each lamb of the fourteen lambs:
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Free Bible Version CC BY-SA 4.0
and one tenth of an ephah for each of the fourteen lambs.
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Bible in Basic English Public Domain
And a separate tenth part for every one of the fourteen lambs;
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JPS Tanakh (1917) Public Domain
and a several tenth part for every lamb of the fourteen lambs;
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).
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וְעִשָּׂרׄוֹן֙
ʻissârôwn
H6241
“and · tithe”
Conjunction + Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute
- Appears 33× in the Hebrew Bible
- First appears at Exodus 29:40
- Part of Speech
- Conjunction + Noun
- Type
- Common
- Gender
- Masculine
- Number
- Singular
- State
- Absolute
Full BDB Definition
tenth part, tithe
- וְעִשָּׂרׄוֹן֙ ʻissârôwn H6241 “and · tithe” Conjunction + Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute
- עִשָּׂר֔וֹן ʻissârôwn H6241 “tithe” Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute
- לַכֶּ֖בֶשׂ kebes H3532 “to/for the · lamb” Preposition, Determined + Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute
- הָאֶחָ֑ד ʼechâd H259 “the · one” Particle, Definite Article + Adjective, Cardinal number, Masculine, Singular, Absolute
- לְאַרְבָּעָ֥ה ʼarbaʻ H702 “to/for · four” Preposition + Adjective, Cardinal number, Masculine, Singular, Absolute
- עָשָׂ֖ר ʻâsâr H6240 “teen” Adjective, Cardinal number, Masculine, Singular, Absolute
- כְּבָשִֽׂים kebes H3532 “lambs” Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, 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 →
- 7
- words
- 5
- distinct lemmas
- Pentateuch
- section
Shared distinctive vocabulary
וְעִשָּׂרׄוֹן֙ tithe H6241 occurs in 22 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:
Grammatical profile
- 4 nouns
- 3 adjectives
Repetition
Words recur within this verse — often emphatic in Hebrew:
Hebrew & Septuagint length
In English translation the verse runs 11 words from the Hebrew and 10 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 7 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.
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.
δέκατος δέκατος ὁ ἀμνός ὁ εἷς ἐπί ὁ τέσσαρες καί δέκα ἀμνός
A tenth deal for every lamb, for the fourteen lambs.
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.
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Targum Onkelos Torah (Genesis–Deuteronomy)
וְעִשְׂרוֹנָא עִשְׂרוֹנָא לְאִימְרָא חָד לְאַרְבְּעָא עֲשַׂר אִימְרִין
(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.
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Targum Pseudo-Jonathan Torah (Genesis–Deuteronomy)
וְעִשְרוֹנָא עִשְרוֹנָא לְאִימַר חַד לְאַרְבֵּיסַר אִימְרִין
a single tenth for each of the fourteen lambs,
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 7 words (5 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is ʻissârôwn (“tithe”). Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.
Discussion questions
- The word ʻissârôwn carries the sense “tithe.” How does it shape the verse?
- How does Exodus 29:40, which shares the word «tithe», read alongside this verse?
- What does the repetition of “tithe” (2× in this one verse) do in this verse?
- These translations render this verse differently. What is at stake in choosing one wording over another?
Things to notice
- This verse counts 7 Hebrew ↔ 12 Greek words.
- These translations choose different wording for 9 words in this verse.
- “tithe” occurs 2× in this single verse.
- 5 distinct Hebrew lemmas span 7 words in this verse.