Numbers 33:36

Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex)

English Translation

They traveled from Ezion Geber, and encamped in the wilderness of Zin (the same is Kadesh).

World English Bible · Public Domain

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צִ֖ן

Tsin

H6790

“Zin”

Noun, Proper

Appears 10× in the Hebrew Bible
First appears at Numbers 13:21

Full BDB Definition

Origin: from an unused root meaning to prick

TWOT: None

Zin = "flat" - name given to a portion of the desert tract between the Dead Sea and Arabah on the east in which Kadesh-barnea was located

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 →

8: words
7: distinct lemmas
Pentateuch: section

Notable vocabulary

The rarest word here is צִ֖ן Zin H6790 — appearing just 10 times in the whole Hebrew Bible.

Shared distinctive vocabulary

צִ֖ן Zin H6790 occurs in 9 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:

Grammatical profile

2 verbs
5 nouns
1 pronoun

Verb forms

וַיִּסְע֖וּ Qal · Sequential Imperfect
וַיַּחֲנ֥וּ Qal · Sequential Imperfect

Repetition

A word recurs within this verse — often emphatic in Hebrew:

מֵעֶצְי֣וֹן Ezion-geber H6100 ×2

Hebrew & Septuagint length

In English translation the verse runs 16 words from the Hebrew and 31 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.

Cross-references

Topical passages linked to Numbers 33:36 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.

Numbers 20:1 The children of Israel, even the whole congregation, came into the wilderness of Zin in the first month: and the people abode in Kadesh; and Miriam died there, and was buried there.
Numbers 27:14 because you rebelled against my word in the wilderness of Zin, in the strife of the congregation, to sanctify me at the waters before their eyes. (These are the waters of Meribah of Kadesh in the wilderness of Zin.)
Numbers 13:21 So they went up, and spied out the land from the wilderness of Zin to Rehob, to the entrance of Hamath.
Deuteronomy 32:51 because you trespassed against me in the midst of the children of Israel at the waters of Meribah of Kadesh, in the wilderness of Zin; because you didn't sanctify me in the midst of the children of Israel.

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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) 31 words vs World English Bible 16. 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.

Hebrew Numbers 33:36 Masoretic · Westminster Leningrad Codex

וַיִּסְע֖וּ מֵעֶצְי֣וֹן גָּ֑בֶר וַיַּחֲנ֥וּ בְמִדְבַּר צִ֖ן הִ֥וא קָדֵֽשׁ

They traveled from Ezion Geber, and encamped in the wilderness of Zin (the same is Kadesh).

World English Bible · Public Domain

Greek LXX Numbers 33:36 Septuagint · lemma form

καί ἀποαἴρω ἐκ γεσιωνγαβερ καί παρα ἐνβάλλω ἐν ὁ ἔρημος σιν καί ἀποαἴρω ἐκ ὁ ἔρημος σιν καί παρα ἐνβάλλω εἰς ὁ ἔρημος φαραν οὗτος εἰμί καδης

And they departed from Gesion Gaber, and encamped in the wilderness of Sin; and they departed from the wilderness of Sin, and encamped in the wilderness of Pharan; this is Cades.

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 מֵעֶצְיוֹן גָבֶר וּשְׁרוֹ בְּמַדְבְּרָא דְצִן הִיא רְקָם

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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 מִכְרַךְ תַּרְנְגוֹלָא וּשְׁרוֹ בְּמַדְבְּרָא צִינֵי טַוָור פַּרְזְלָא הִיא רְקָם

thence to the wilderness of Zin; at the Iron Mount, which is Rekem;

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 33:36 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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Tyndale Open Study Notes

Tyndale Open Resources

33:36 Israel was residing in Kadesh (13:26; 27:14; “Kadesh-barnea,” 32:8) when the spies reported on their trip through Canaan.

Adam Clarke's Commentary

STAT. XXXII.

Verse 36. ZIN, which is KADESH.] A place remarkable for the death of Miriam the prophetess, and bringing water out of the rock. As this place was on the borders of Edom, the Israelites, being denied permission to pass through their land, which lay on the direct road to the promised land, were obliged to turn to the right to Mount Hor, now called Accaba by the Arabs.

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

Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

Sin, or Tsin. Cades is another name of the same desert. Near the city of Cades-barne, the Hebrews encamped a long while, and had plenty of water; but here they murmured for want of it, and Mary departed this life, chap. xx. (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).

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible

Daniel D. Whedon

36. Wilderness of Zin — Num_13:21, note. Kadesh is said to have been situated also in the wilderness of Paran. Num_13:26. To explain this difficulty there are three hypotheses: (1.) That there were two Kadeshes or “holy places.” (2.) That the name applied to a city and to an extensive region, as does New York. (3.) That Kadesh was on the border of both Paran and Zin. It is the theory of Fries, Hengstenberg, Keil, Kurtz, Raumer, Robinson, and others that the Israelites were at Kadesh once in the second, and again in the fortieth year of their wanderings. Num_20:16; Jos_10:41, notes.

Daniel D. Whedon (gen. ed.), Commentary on the Old and New Testaments (1874–1909) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

The Pulpit Commentary

The wilderness of Zin, which is Kadesh. See on Num_20:1.

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

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 8 words (7 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is Tsin (“Zin”). The Greek Septuagint runs longer here. A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.

Discussion questions

What does “Zin” (Tsin) contribute to the verse as a whole?
How does Numbers 13:21, which shares the word «Zin», read alongside this verse?
What does the repetition of “Ezion-geber” (2× in this one verse) do in this verse?
The Septuagint runs longer here than the Hebrew. What might account for the difference?
These translations render this verse differently; the difference is in the English rendering, not the original. What questions does that raise?
«וַיִּסְע֖וּ» is a Qal Sequential Imperfect verb. How does that grammatical form shape the action described?
Compare how Tyndale Open Study Notes and Adam Clarke's Commentary read this verse. Where do they agree or differ?

Things to notice

These translations choose different wording for 12 words in this verse.
“Ezion-geber” occurs 2× in this single verse.
7 distinct Hebrew lemmas span 8 words in this verse.