Numbers 33:28

Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex)

English Translation

They traveled from Terah, and encamped in Mithkah.

World English Bible · Public Domain

Highlights

1 first appearance in the Hebrew Bible

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בְּמִתְקָֽה

Mithqâh

H4989

“in/at · Mithcah”

Preposition + Noun, Proper

Appears 2× in the Hebrew Bible
First appears here

Full BDB Definition

Origin: from H4987

TWOT: None

Mithcah = "sweetness" - a station of Israel in the wilderness; site unknown

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 →

4: words
4: distinct lemmas
Pentateuch: section

Notable vocabulary

The rarest word here is בְּמִתְקָֽה Mithcah H4989 — appearing just 2 times in the whole Hebrew Bible.

First appearance in Scripture

This word makes its first canonical appearance in the Hebrew Bible here:

בְּמִתְקָֽה Mithcah H4989

Shared distinctive vocabulary

בְּמִתְקָֽה Mithcah H4989 occurs in 2 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:

Numbers 33:29

Grammatical profile

2 verbs
2 nouns

Verb forms

וַיִּסְע֖וּ Qal · Sequential Imperfect
וַֽיַּחֲנ֖וּ Qal · Sequential Imperfect

Hebrew & Septuagint length

In English translation the verse runs 8 words from the Hebrew and 9 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.

Hebrew and Greek witnesses Masoretic Hebrew ↔ Greek Septuagint

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These are two independent witnesses, not word-aligned to each other, and the Septuagint is shown in lemma (dictionary) form.

Hebrew Numbers 33:28 Masoretic · Westminster Leningrad Codex

וַיִּסְע֖וּ מִתָּ֑רַח וַֽיַּחֲנ֖וּ בְּמִתְקָֽה

They traveled from Terah, and encamped in Mithkah.

World English Bible · Public Domain

Greek LXX Numbers 33:28 Septuagint · lemma form

καί ἀποαἴρω ἐκ ταραθ καί παρα ἐνβάλλω εἰς ματεκκα

And they departed from Tarath, and encamped in Mathecca.

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)

וּנְטָלוּ מִתָּרַח וּשׁרוֹ בְּמִתְקָה

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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)

וּנְטָלוּ מִתָּרַח וּשְׁרוֹ בְּמִתְקָה אֲתַר דְבַסִימִין מוֹהִי

and Muka, whose waters were sweet;

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 33:28 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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Adam Clarke's Commentary

STAT. XXIV.

Verse 28. MITHCAH.] Calmet conjectures that this may be Mocha, a city in Arabia Petraea.

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible (1810–1826) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword/MySword module.

Lesson kit

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Numbers, in the Pentateuch, opens this verse with 4 words (4 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is Mithqâh (“Mithcah”). Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.

Discussion questions

The word Mithqâh carries the sense “Mithcah.” How does it shape the verse?
The word “Mithcah” first appears here in Scripture. What is being introduced at this debut?
Numbers 33:29 shares the word «Mithcah» with this verse. How do the two illuminate each other?
These translations render this verse differently; the difference is in the English rendering, not the original. What questions does that raise?
The verb «וַיִּסְע֖וּ» is Qal Sequential Imperfect. How does its form color the action?

Things to notice

1 word makes its first canonical appearance in Scripture here.
These translations choose different wording for 11 words in this verse.
4 distinct Hebrew lemmas span 4 words in this verse.