וְנֶ֣פֶשׁ אָדָ֔ם שִׁשָּׁ֥ה עָשָׂ֖ר אָֽלֶף
and sixteen thousand persons),
World English Bible · Public Domain
Numbers 31:46
Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex) Numbers 31:46 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 sixteen thousand persons),
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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 sixteen thousand persons),
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King James Version Public Domain
And sixteen thousand persons;)
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
and 16, 000 human lives.
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 sixteen thousand persons),
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Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
and 16,000 people.
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Majority Standard Bible Public Domain
and 16,000 people.
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King James Version Public Domain
And sixteen thousand persons;)
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American Standard Version (1901) Public Domain
and sixteen thousand persons),
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Revised Version (1885) Public Domain
and sixteen thousand persons;)
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Geneva Bible (1599) Public Domain
And sixteene thousande persons)
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Douay-Rheims (1899) Public Domain
And out of the sixteen thousand persons,
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Young's Literal Translation Public Domain
and of human beings sixteen thousand --
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Literal Standard Version CC BY-SA 4.0
and sixteen thousand of mankind—
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Unlocked Literal Bible CC BY-SA 4.0
and sixteen thousand women.
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
and 16, 000 human lives.
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Darby Bible Public Domain
and sixteen thousand human persons,)
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World Messianic Bible Public Domain
and sixteen thousand persons),
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Webster's Bible Public Domain
And sixteen thousand persons;)
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Free Bible Version CC BY-SA 4.0
and 16,000 people.
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Bible in Basic English Public Domain
And sixteen thousand persons;)
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JPS Tanakh (1917) Public Domain
and sixteen thousand persons —
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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שִׁשָּׁ֥ה
shêsh
H8337
“six”
Adjective, Cardinal number, Masculine, Singular, Absolute
- Appears 216× in the Hebrew Bible
- First appears at Genesis 7:6
- Part of Speech
- Adjective
- Type
- Cardinal number
- Gender
- Masculine
- Number
- Singular
- State
- Absolute
Full BDB Definition
six
- six (cardinal number)
- sixth (ordinal number)
- in combination with other numbers
- וְנֶ֣פֶשׁ nephesh H5315 “and · soul of” Conjunction + Noun, Common, Both, Singular, Construct
- אָדָ֔ם ʼâdâm H120 “man” Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute
- שִׁשָּׁ֥ה shêsh H8337 “six” Adjective, Cardinal number, Masculine, Singular, Absolute
- עָשָׂ֖ר ʻâsâr H6240 “teen” Adjective, Cardinal number, Masculine, Singular, Absolute
- אָֽלֶף ʼeleph H505 “thousand” Adjective, Cardinal number, Both, Singular, 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 →
- 5
- words
- 5
- distinct lemmas
- Pentateuch
- section
Grammatical profile
- 2 nouns
- 3 adjectives
Hebrew & Septuagint length
In English translation the verse runs 4 words from the Hebrew and 4 from the Septuagint (LXX English) — the same length.
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 5 Hebrew tokens and 7 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.
καί ψυχή ἄνθρωπος ἕξ καί δέκα χιλιάς
and persons, sixteen thousand.
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)
וְנַפְשָׁא דְאֱנָשָׁא שִׁתָּא עֲשַׂר אַלְפִין
(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)
וּבְנַת נְשָׁא שִׁיתְּסַר אַלְפִין
and sixteen thousand women.
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.