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Numbers 3:37

Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex) Numbers 3:37 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 3:37 (World English Bible). Public Domain. Lemma interlinear Bible study tool, https://lemma.gebible.app/v/numbers/3/37.

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the pillars of the court around it, their sockets, their pins, and their cords.
World English Bible · Public Domain
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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
    the pillars of the court around it, their sockets, their pins, and their cords.
  • King James Version Public Domain
    And the pillars of the court round about, and their sockets, and their pins, and their cords.
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
    and the pillars of the courtyard all around and their bases and their pegs and their ropes.

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
    the pillars of the court around it, their sockets, their pins, and their cords.
  • Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
    as well as the posts of the surrounding courtyard with their bases, tent pegs, and ropes.
  • Majority Standard Bible Public Domain
    as well as the posts of the surrounding courtyard with their bases, tent pegs, and ropes.
  • King James Version Public Domain
    And the pillars of the court round about, and their sockets, and their pins, and their cords.
  • American Standard Version (1901) Public Domain
    and the pillars of the court round about, and their sockets, and their pins, and their cords.
  • Revised Version (1885) Public Domain
    and the pillars of the court round about, and their sockets, and their pins, and their cords.
  • Geneva Bible (1599) Public Domain
    With the pillars of the court round about, with their sockets, and their pins and their coardes.
  • Douay-Rheims (1899) Public Domain
    And the pillars of the court round about with their sockets, and the pins with their cords.
  • Young's Literal Translation Public Domain
    and the pillars of the court round about, and their sockets, and their pins, and their cords.
  • Literal Standard Version CC BY-SA 4.0
    and the pillars of the court all around, and their sockets, and their pins, and their cords.
  • Unlocked Literal Bible CC BY-SA 4.0
    the pillars and posts of the courtyard that surround the tabernacle, with their sockets, pegs, and ropes.
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
    and the pillars of the courtyard all around and their bases and their pegs and their ropes.
  • Darby Bible Public Domain
    and the pillars of the court round about, and their bases, and their pegs, and their cords.
  • World Messianic Bible Public Domain
    the pillars of the court around it, their sockets, their pins, and their cords.
  • Webster's Bible Public Domain
    And the pillars of the court round about, and their sockets, and their pins, and their cords.
  • Free Bible Version CC BY-SA 4.0
    as well as the posts of the surrounding courtyard with their stands, tent pegs, and ropes.
  • Bible in Basic English Public Domain
    And the pillars of the open space round it, with their bases and nails and cords.
  • JPS Tanakh (1917) Public Domain
    and the pillars of the court round about, and their sockets, and their pins, and their cords.

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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Notable vocabulary

The rarest word here is וּמֵֽיתְרֵיהֶֽם cord H4340 — appearing just 9 times in the whole Hebrew Bible.

Shared distinctive vocabulary

וּמֵֽיתְרֵיהֶֽם cord H4340 occurs in 9 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:

Grammatical profile

  • 6 nouns

Hebrew & Septuagint length

In English translation the verse runs 14 words from the Hebrew and 17 from the Septuagint (LXX English) — closely comparable.

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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.

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Hebrew and Greek witnesses Masoretic Hebrew ↔ Greek Septuagint

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Hebrew Numbers 3:37 Masoretic · Westminster Leningrad Codex

וְעַמֻּדֵ֧י הֶחָצֵ֛ר סָבִ֖יב וְאַדְנֵיהֶ֑ם וִיתֵדֹתָ֖ם וּמֵֽיתְרֵיהֶֽם

the pillars of the court around it, their sockets, their pins, and their cords.

World English Bible · Public Domain

Greek LXX Numbers 3:37 Septuagint · lemma form

καί ὁ στῦλος ὁ αὐλή κύκλος καί ὁ βάσις αὐτός καί ὁ πάσσαλος καί ὁ καλός αὐτός

and the pillars of the court round about, and their bases, and their pins, and their cords.

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)
    וְעַמוּדֵי דְדַרְתָּא סְחוֹר סְחוֹר וְסַמְכֵיהוֹן וְסִכֵּיהוֹן וְאַטוּנֵיהוֹן

    (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)
    וְעַמוּדֵי דְדַרְתָּא חֲזוֹר חֲזוֹר וְחוּמְרֵיהוֹן וְסִיכֵיהוֹן וּמַתְחֵיהוֹן

    The pillars of the court also round about, their sockets, pins, and cords.

    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 3:37 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 →

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers

(37) And the pillars of the court round about . . . —See Notes on Exo_27:9-19.

A Bible Commentary for English Readers, edited by Charles John Ellicott (1878–1897) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

John Gill's Exposition

And those that encamp before the tabernacle toward the east,.... At which was the entrance into the tabernacle:

even before the tabernacle of the congregation eastward; that is, before the court of the tabernacle, where the people assembled together:

shall be Moses, Aaron, and his sons; Moses the chief ruler, and Aaron the high priest, and his sons priests under him; these had the most honourable place of all, beings at the front of the tabernacle, between that and the camp of Judah. There is an extraordinary prick on the word Aaron, to show, as Jarchi says, that he was not in the number of Levites, though of the tribe of Levi, being high priest:

keeping the charge of the sanctuary, for the charge of the children of Israel; either in their room and stead, which otherwise they must have kept; or rather for their safety and security, keeping out all persons from entering into the sanctuary, who had no business there, that they died not, as it follows:

and the stranger that cometh nigh shall be put to death; that is, whoever came nigh to enter into the holy place, and did, who was no priest, though an Israelite, and even a Levite, or into the most holy place, excepting the high priest, it was death unto him, either by the civil magistrate, or by the hand of heaven; so the Targum of Jonathan.

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

Matthew Poole's English Annotations

Therefore these were for another use than those mentioned Num 3:26.

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible (1683–1685) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword/MySword module.

Lesson kit

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Numbers, in the Pentateuch, opens this verse with 6 words (6 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is mêythâr (“cord”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.

Discussion questions

  1. The word mêythâr carries the sense “cord.” How does it shape the verse?
  2. How does Exodus 35:18, which shares the word «cord», read alongside this verse?
  3. These translations render this verse differently. What is at stake in choosing one wording over another?
  4. Compare how Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers and John Gill's Exposition read this verse. Where do they agree or differ?

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