Numbers 32:26

Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex)

English Translation

Our little ones, our wives, our flocks, and all our cattle, shall be there in the cities of Gilead;

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טַפֵּ֣נוּ

ṭaph

H2945

“little children · our”

Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct + Suffix, Personal, 1st Person, Common, Plural

Appears 42× in the Hebrew Bible
First appears at Genesis 34:29

Full BDB Definition

Origin: from H2952 (perhaps referring to the tripping gait of children)

TWOT: 821a

children, little children, little ones

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

Shared distinctive vocabulary

טַפֵּ֣נוּ little children H2945 occurs in 42 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:

Grammatical profile

1 verb
7 nouns
1 adverb

Verb forms

יִֽהְיוּ Qal · Imperfect

Hebrew & Septuagint length

In English translation the verse runs 19 words from the Hebrew and 16 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 9 Hebrew tokens and 17 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 32:26 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.

Joshua 1:14 Your wives, your little ones, and your cattle, shall abide in the land which Moses gave you beyond the Jordan; but you shall pass over before your brothers armed, all the mighty men of valor, and shall help them;

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 32:26 Masoretic · Westminster Leningrad Codex

טַפֵּ֣נוּ נָשֵׁ֔ינוּ מִקְנֵ֖נוּ וְכָל בְּהֶמְתֵּ֑נוּ יִֽהְיוּ שָׁ֖ם בְּעָרֵ֥י הַגִּלְעָֽד

Our little ones, our wives, our flocks, and all our cattle, shall be there in the cities of Gilead;

World English Bible · Public Domain

Greek LXX Numbers 32:26 Septuagint · lemma form

ὁ ἀποσκευή ἐγώ καί ὁ γυνή ἐγώ καί πᾶς ὁ κτῆνος ἐγώ εἰμί ἐν ὁ πόλις γαλαάδ

Our store, and our wives, and all our cattle shall be in the cities of Galaad.

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)

טַפְלָנָא נְשָׁנָא גֵיתָנָא וְכָל בְּעִירָנָא יְהוֹן תַּמָן בְּקִרְוֵי גִלְעָד

(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)

טַפְלָנָא נְשָׁנָא גֵיתָנָא וְכָל בְּעִירָנָא יְהוֹן תַּמָן בְּקוּרְוֵי גִלְעָד

our children, wives, flocks, and all our cattle shall be here in the cities of Gilead;

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 32:26 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.

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John Gill's Exposition

Our little ones, our wives, our flocks, and all our cattle,.... Their families, and their substance:

shall be there in the cities of Gilead; such as are before mentioned, Num 32:3 and which they proposed to repair and fortify, to preserve their families and possessions from the Amorites about them.

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

Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

Galaad. Only a small part of the territory properly went by that name, ver. 39. (Calmet)

George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), Haydock's Catholic Family Bible and Commentary, 1859 edition — public domain. Excludes Psalms (Douay-Rheims chapter numbering differs from Protestant) and Deuterocanonical books (Catholic canon only).

Matthew Poole's English Annotations

Largely so called, as that word is oft used, for that whole country beyond Jordan, as in other places it is taken more strictly for a part of it, as here below, Num 32:39,40, and elsewhere.

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

The Pulpit Commentary

In the cities of Gilead. The name is used here in a vague sense for all the central and southern trans-Jordanic districts.

The Pulpit Commentary (1880–1919), ed. H.D.M. Spence-Jones & Joseph S. Exell — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

unfoldingWord translationNotes

Door43 World Missions Community

will cross over

You can make it clear that they will cross over the Jordan. AT: "will cross over the Jordan River" (See: Assumed Knowledge and Implicit Information)

every man who is armed for war

"every man prepared for war"

translationWords

flocks

livestock

Gilead

servant

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 9 words (9 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is ṭaph (“little children”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.

Discussion questions

The word ṭaph carries the sense “little children.” How does it shape the verse?
How does Genesis 34:29, which shares the word «little children», read alongside this verse?
These translations render this verse differently. What is at stake in choosing one wording over another?
«יִֽהְיוּ» is a Qal Imperfect verb. How does that grammatical form shape the action described?
Compare how John Gill's Exposition and Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary read this verse. Where do they agree or differ?

Things to notice

This verse counts 9 Hebrew ↔ 17 Greek words.
These translations choose different wording for 9 words in this verse.
9 distinct Hebrew lemmas span 9 words in this verse.