Numbers 33:37

Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex)

English Translation

They traveled from Kadesh, and encamped in Mount Hor, in the edge of the land of Edom.

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בְּהֹ֣ר

Hôr

H2023

“in/at · Hor”

Preposition + Noun, Proper

Appears 12× in the Hebrew Bible
First appears at Numbers 20:22

Full BDB Definition

Origin: another form of H2022

TWOT: None

Hor = "mountain" - the mountain on which Aaron died; situated on the eastern side of the valley of Arabah, the highest of the whole range of sandstone mountains in Edom; on the eastern side is the ancient city of Petra - the mountain named as one of the marks of the northern boundary of the land which the children of Israel were about to conquer; located in Lebanon

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
8: distinct lemmas
Pentateuch: section

Notable vocabulary

The rarest word here is בְּהֹ֣ר Hor H2023 — appearing just 12 times in the whole Hebrew Bible.

Shared distinctive vocabulary

בְּהֹ֣ר Hor H2023 occurs in 12 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:

Grammatical profile

2 verbs
6 nouns

Verb forms

וַיִּסְע֖וּ Qal · Sequential Imperfect
וַֽיַּחֲנוּ֙ Qal · Sequential Imperfect

Hebrew & Septuagint length

In English translation the verse runs 17 words from the Hebrew and 15 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 8 Hebrew tokens and 14 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 33:37 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.

Numbers 21:4 They traveled from Mount Hor by the way to the Red Sea, to compass the land of Edom: and the soul of the people was much discouraged because of the way.
Numbers 20:22–23 They traveled from Kadesh: and the children of Israel, even the whole congregation, came to Mount Hor.
Numbers 20:16 and when we cried to Yahweh, he heard our voice, and sent an angel, and brought us forth out of Egypt: and, behold, we are in Kadesh, a city in the uttermost of your border.

Cross-references courtesy of OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0).

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 33:37 Masoretic · Westminster Leningrad Codex

וַיִּסְע֖וּ מִקָּדֵ֑שׁ וַֽיַּחֲנוּ֙ בְּהֹ֣ר הָהָ֔ר בִּקְצֵ֖ה אֶ֥רֶץ אֱדֽוֹם

They traveled from Kadesh, and encamped in Mount Hor, in the edge of the land of Edom.

World English Bible · Public Domain

Greek LXX Numbers 33:37 Septuagint · lemma form

καί ἀποαἴρω ἐκ καδης καί παρα ἐνβάλλω εἰς ωρ ὁ ὄρος πλησίον γῆ εδωμ

And they departed from Cades, and encamped in mount Or near the land of Edom.

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 מֵרְקָם וּשְׁרוֹ בְּהוֹר טוּרָא בִּסְיָפֵי אַרְעָא דֶאֱדוֹם

(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)

וּנְטָלוּ מֵרְקָם וּשְׁרוֹ בְּטַוְורוֹס אוּמָנוֹס בִּסְיָיפֵי אַרְעָא דֶאֱדוֹם

thence to Mount Umano, on the borders of the Land of Edom.

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 33:37 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 →

Tyndale Open Study Notes

Tyndale Open Resources

33:37-49 Israel traveled from Kadesh to the plains of Moab.

Adam Clarke's Commentary

STAT. XXXIII.

Verse 37. HOR.] Famous for the death of Aaron. See on Nu 20:25-28. Perhaps Moseroth or Mosera, Nu 33:30, was a village near this mountain. See Clarke on Nu 33:30.

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

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers

(37, 38) And they removed from Kadesh . . . —See Num_20:22-29, and Notes.

A Bible Commentary for English Readers, edited by Charles John Ellicott (1878–1897) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

Hor, at a place called Mosera, Deuteronomy x. 6. This was the road from Arabia to Chanaan, and the Hebrews attempted to enter by it, but were repulsed by the king of Arad, though they afterwards defeated him at Horma, chap. xxi. 3.

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

37. Pitched in mount Hor — On the slopes at its base. Num_20:22, note and cut. The place is called Mosera, Num_33:30, note.

The edge of… Edom — Num_20:14-21, 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

Mount Hor. See on Num_20:22.

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

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Numbers, in the Pentateuch, opens this verse with 8 words (8 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is Hôr (“Hor”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.

Discussion questions

How does “Hor” (Hôr) shape what this verse is saying?
Numbers 20:22 shares the word «Hor» with this verse. How do the two illuminate each other?
The translations on this page render this verse differently — a whole-verse word diff, not a word-by-word alignment. What might account for the different wordings?
The verb «וַיִּסְע֖וּ» is Qal Sequential Imperfect. How does its form color the action?
Reading how Tyndale Open Study Notes and Adam Clarke's Commentary read this verse, where do the two commentators agree and where do they part?

Things to notice

This verse counts 8 Hebrew ↔ 14 Greek words.
These translations choose different wording for 7 words in this verse.
8 distinct Hebrew lemmas span 8 words in this verse.