וַיְהִ֛י הַמֶּ֥כֶס לַֽיהוָ֖ה מִן הַצֹּ֑אן שֵׁ֥שׁ מֵא֖וֹת חָמֵ֥שׁ וְשִׁבְעִֽים
and Yahweh's tribute of the sheep was six hundred seventy-five.
World English Bible · Public Domain
Numbers 31:37
Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex) Numbers 31:37 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.
English Translation
and Yahweh's tribute of the sheep was six hundred seventy-five.
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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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Highlighted words mark where these versions differ — a whole-verse word diff, not a word-by-word alignment.
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World English Bible Public Domain
and Yahweh's tribute of the sheep was six hundred seventy-five.
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King James Version Public Domain
And the LORD's tribute of the sheep was six hundred and threescore and fifteen.
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
And the tax for Yahweh from the flock was 675.
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 Yahweh's tribute of the sheep was six hundred seventy-five.
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Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
including a tribute to the LORD of 675,
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Majority Standard Bible Public Domain
including a tribute to the LORD of 675,
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King James Version Public Domain
And the LORD's tribute of the sheep was six hundred and threescore and fifteen.
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American Standard Version (1901) Public Domain
and Jehovah's tribute of the sheep was six hundred and threescore and fifteen.
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Revised Version (1885) Public Domain
and the LORD’S tribute of the sheep was six hundred and threescore and fifteen.
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Geneva Bible (1599) Public Domain
And the Lordes tribute of the sheepe was sixe hundreth and seuentie and fiue:
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Douay-Rheims (1899) Public Domain
Out of which, for the portion of the Lord, were reckoned six hundred seventy-five sheep.
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Young's Literal Translation Public Domain
And the tribute to Jehovah of the sheep is six hundred five and seventy;
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Literal Standard Version CC BY-SA 4.0
And the tribute to YHWH of the sheep is six hundred seventy-five;
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Unlocked Literal Bible CC BY-SA 4.0
Yahweh's part of the sheep was 675.
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
And the tax for Yahweh from the flock was 675.
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Darby Bible Public Domain
and the tribute for Jehovah of the sheep was six hundred and seventy-five;
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World Messianic Bible Public Domain
and the LORD’s tribute of the sheep was six hundred seventy-five.
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Webster's Bible Public Domain
And the LORD'S tribute of the sheep was six hundred and seventy five.
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Free Bible Version CC BY-SA 4.0
with a contribution for the Lord of 675,
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Bible in Basic English Public Domain
Of which the Lord's part was six hundred and seventy-five.
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JPS Tanakh (1917) Public Domain
And the LORD'S tribute of the sheep was six hundred and threescore and fifteen.
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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הַמֶּ֥כֶס
mekeç
H4371
“the · tax”
Particle, Definite Article + Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute
- Appears 6× in the Hebrew Bible
- First appears at Numbers 31:28
- Part of Speech
- Particle + Noun
- Type
- Common
- Gender
- Masculine
- Number
- Singular
- State
- Absolute
Full BDB Definition
computation, proportion to be paid, tribute, tax
- וַיְהִ֛י hâyâh H1961 “and · to be” Conjunction + Verb, Qal, Sequential Imperfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular
- הַמֶּ֥כֶס mekeç H4371 “the · tax” Particle, Definite Article + Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute
- לַֽיהוָ֖ה Yᵉhôvâh H3068 “to/for · LORD” Preposition + Noun, Proper
- מִן min H4480 “from” Preposition
- הַצֹּ֑אן tsôʼn H6629 “the · flock” Particle, Definite Article + Noun, Common, Both, Singular, Absolute
- שֵׁ֥שׁ shêsh H8337 “six” Adjective, Cardinal number, Feminine, Singular, Absolute
- מֵא֖וֹת mêʼâh H3967 “hundred” Adjective, Cardinal number, Both, Plural, Absolute
- חָמֵ֥שׁ châmêsh H2568 “five” Adjective, Cardinal number, Feminine, Singular, Absolute
- וְשִׁבְעִֽים shibʻîym H7657 “and · seventy” Conjunction + Adjective, Cardinal number, Both, 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 →
- 9
- words
- 9
- distinct lemmas
- Pentateuch
- section
Notable vocabulary
The rarest word here is הַמֶּ֥כֶס tax H4371 — appearing just 6 times in the whole Hebrew Bible.
Shared distinctive vocabulary
הַמֶּ֥כֶס tax H4371 occurs in 6 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:
Grammatical profile
- 1 verb
- 3 nouns
- 4 adjectives
- 1 preposition
Verb forms
- וַיְהִ֛י Qal · Sequential Imperfect
Hebrew & Septuagint length
In English translation the verse runs 10 words from the Hebrew and 14 from the Septuagint (LXX English) — the Septuagint runs noticeably longer 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 9 Hebrew tokens and 11 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.
Here the Septuagint runs noticeably longer than the Hebrew — LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) 14 words vs World English Bible 10. 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.
καί γίγνομαι ὁ τέλος κύριος ἀπό ὁ πρόβατον ἑξακόσιοι ἑβδομήκοντα πέντε
And the tribute to the Lord from the sheep was six hundred and seventy-five.
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)
וַהֲוָה נְסִיבָא קֳדָם יְיָ מִן עָנָא שִׁית מְאָה שַׁבְעִין וַחֲמֵשׁ
(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)
וַהֲוַת סְכוּם נְסִיבָא לִשְׁמָא דַיְיָ מִן עָנָא שִׁית מְאָה שׁוּבְעִין וַחֲמֵשׁ
and the amount of that brought up for the Name of the Lord was of sheep six hundred and seventy-five;
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 9 words (9 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is mekeç (“tax”). The Greek Septuagint runs longer here. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.
Discussion questions
- What does “tax” (mekeç) contribute to the verse as a whole?
- Numbers 31:28 shares the word «tax» with this verse. How do the two illuminate each other?
- Compared with the Hebrew, the Septuagint runs longer here. What questions does that raise?
- These translations render this verse differently. What is at stake in choosing one wording over another?
- The verb «וַיְהִ֛י» is Qal Sequential Imperfect. How does its form color the action?
Things to notice
- This verse counts 9 Hebrew ↔ 11 Greek words.
- These translations choose different wording for 13 words in this verse.
- 9 distinct Hebrew lemmas span 9 words in this verse.
Commentary
Notes on Numbers 31:37 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 →
Geneva Bible (1599)
Geneva Bible translators
Geneva Bible (1599) marginal notes — public domain. Text via Bolls.life.