Numbers 34:27

Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex)

English Translation

Of the tribe of the children of Asher a prince, Ahihud the son of Shelomi.

World English Bible · Public Domain

Highlights

2 hapax legomena — only here in the Hebrew Bible
2 first appearances in the Hebrew Bible

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אֲחִיה֖וּד

ʼĂchîyhûwd

H282

“Ahihud”

Noun, Proper

Appears 1× in the Hebrew Bible
First appears here

Full BDB Definition

Origin: from H251 and H1935

TWOT: None

Ahihud = "brother of majesty" - a prince of Asher

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 →

7: words
6: distinct lemmas
Pentateuch: section

Notable vocabulary

2 hapax legomena — words that appear only here in the entire Hebrew Bible:

אֲחִיה֖וּד Ahihud H282
שְׁלֹמִֽי Shelomi H8015

First appearance in Scripture

These words make their first canonical appearance in the Hebrew Bible here:

אֲחִיה֖וּד Ahihud H282
שְׁלֹמִֽי Shelomi H8015

Shared distinctive vocabulary

אָשֵׁ֖ר Asher H836 occurs in 41 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:

Grammatical profile

7 nouns

Repetition

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

בְנֵי son H1121 ×2

Hebrew & Septuagint length

In English translation the verse runs 15 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 7 Hebrew tokens and 8 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.

Hebrew Numbers 34:27 Masoretic · Westminster Leningrad Codex

וּלְמַטֵּ֥ה בְנֵי אָשֵׁ֖ר נָשִׂ֑יא אֲחִיה֖וּד בֶּן שְׁלֹמִֽי

Of the tribe of the children of Asher a prince, Ahihud the son of Shelomi.

World English Bible · Public Domain

Greek LXX Numbers 34:27 Septuagint · lemma form

ὁ φυλή υἱός ασηρ ἄρχων αχιωρ υἱός σελεμι

Of the tribe of the children of Aser, the prince was Achior the son of Selemi.

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)

וּלְשִׁבְטָּא דִבְנֵי אָשֵׁר רַבָּא אֲחִיהּוּד בַּר שְׁלֹמִי

(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)

לְשִׁבְטָא דְאָשֵׁר אַמַרְכּוֹל אֲחִיהוּד בַּר שְׁלוֹמִי

Asher, Abihud bar Shelomi;

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 34:27 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 →

unfoldingWord translationNotes

Door43 World Missions Community

General Information:

This concludes the list of men who will help divide the land among the tribes. (See: How to Translate Names)

translationWords

tribe

Asher

Naphtali

Yahweh

command

Canaan

Israel

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

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 7 words (6 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is ʼĂchîyhûwd (“Ahihud”). Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.

Discussion questions

How does “Ahihud” (ʼĂchîyhûwd) shape what this verse is saying?
This verse holds 2 words here found nowhere else in the Hebrew Bible. What might the rare words draw attention to?
2 words here appear for the first time in Scripture. What is being introduced at this debut?
Genesis 30:13 shares the word «Asher» with this verse. How do the two illuminate each other?
“son” occurs 2× in this one verse. What is the effect of the repetition?
These translations render this verse differently; the difference is in the English rendering, not the original. What questions does that raise?

Things to notice

2 words in this verse appear nowhere else in the Hebrew Bible.
2 words make their first canonical appearance in Scripture here.
This verse counts 7 Hebrew ↔ 8 Greek words.
These translations choose different wording for 4 words in this verse.
“son” occurs 2× in this single verse.