Numbers 4:40

Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex) Numbers 4:40 appears in the Hebrew Old Testament. The text above is from the Westminster Leningrad Codex. Each word links to its Strong’s number, a concise gloss, and parsing drawn from the Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible morphology. Click any word for its full Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB) entry.
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Numbers 4:40 (World English Bible). Public Domain. Lemma interlinear Bible study tool, https://lemma.gebible.app/v/numbers/4/40.

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even those who were numbered of them, by their families, by their fathers' houses, were two thousand six hundred thirty.
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  • World English Bible Public Domain
    even those who were numbered of them, by their families, by their fathers' houses, were two thousand six hundred thirty.
  • King James Version Public Domain
    Even those that were numbered of them, throughout their families, by the house of their fathers, were two thousand and six hundred and thirty.
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
    and their counted ones according to their clans, according to the house of their fathers, were 2,630.

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  • World English Bible Public Domain
    even those who were numbered of them, by their families, by their fathers' houses, were two thousand six hundred thirty.
  • Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
    And those numbered by their clans and families totaled 2,630.
  • Majority Standard Bible Public Domain
    And those numbered by their clans and families totaled 2,630.
  • King James Version Public Domain
    Even those that were numbered of them, throughout their families, by the house of their fathers, were two thousand and six hundred and thirty.
  • American Standard Version (1901) Public Domain
    even those that were numbered of them, by their families, by their fathers' houses, were two thousand and six hundred and thirty.
  • Revised Version (1885) Public Domain
    even those that were numbered of them, by their families, by their fathers’ houses, were two thousand and six hundred and thirty.
  • Geneva Bible (1599) Public Domain
    So the nombers of them by their families, and by the houses of their fathers were two thousand sixe hundreth and thirtie.
  • Douay-Rheims (1899) Public Domain
    And they were found two thousand six hundred and thirty.
  • Young's Literal Translation Public Domain
    even their numbered ones, by their families, by the house of their fathers, are two thousand and six hundred and thirty.
  • Literal Standard Version CC BY-SA 4.0
    even their numbered ones, by their families, by the house of their fathers, are two thousand and six hundred and thirty.
  • Unlocked Literal Bible CC BY-SA 4.0
    All the men, counted by their clans and their ancestor's families, numbered 2,630.
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
    and their counted ones according to their clans, according to the house of their fathers, were 2,630.
  • Darby Bible Public Domain
    even those that were numbered of them, after their families, according to their fathers' houses, were two thousand six hundred and thirty.
  • World Messianic Bible Public Domain
    even those who were counted of them, by their families, by their fathers’ houses, were two thousand six hundred thirty.
  • Webster's Bible Public Domain
    Even those that were numbered of them, throughout their families, by the house of their fathers, were two thousand and six hundred and thirty.
  • Free Bible Version CC BY-SA 4.0
    The total by families and father's line was 2,630.
  • Bible in Basic English Public Domain
    Who were numbered by families in the order of their fathers' houses, were two thousand, six hundred and thirty.
  • JPS Tanakh (1917) Public Domain
    even those that were numbered of them, by their families, by their fathers' houses, were two thousand and six hundred and thirty.

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וּשְׁלֹשִֽׁים
shᵉlôwshîym
H7970
“and · thirty”
Conjunction + Adjective, Cardinal number, Both, Plural, Absolute
Part of Speech
Conjunction + Adjective
Type
Cardinal number
Gender
Both
Number
Plural
State
Absolute
Full BDB Definition

Origin: multiple of H7969

TWOT: 2403d

thirty, thirtieth
  1. וַיִּֽהְיוּ֙ hâyâh H1961 “and · to be” Conjunction + Verb, Qal, Sequential Imperfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Plural
  2. פְּקֻ֣דֵיהֶ֔ם pâqad H6485 “visited · them” Verb, Qal, Participle Passive, Masculine, Plural, Construct + Suffix, Personal, 3rd Person, Masculine, Plural
  3. לְמִשְׁפְּחֹתָ֖ם mishpâchâh H4940 “to/for · families · their” Preposition + Noun, Common, Feminine, Plural, Construct + Suffix, Personal, 3rd Person, Masculine, Plural
  4. לְבֵ֣ית bayith H1004 “to/for · house of” Preposition + Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct
  5. אֲבֹתָ֑ם ʼâb H1 “fathers · their” Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Construct + Suffix, Personal, 3rd Person, Masculine, Plural
  6. אַלְפַּ֕יִם ʼeleph H505 “thousand” Adjective, Cardinal number, Both, Plural, Absolute
  7. וְשֵׁ֥שׁ shêsh H8337 “and · six” Conjunction + Adjective, Cardinal number, Feminine, Singular, Absolute
  8. מֵא֖וֹת mêʼâh H3967 “hundred” Adjective, Cardinal number, Both, Plural, Absolute

About this verse

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9
words
9
distinct lemmas
Pentateuch
section

Grammatical profile

  • 2 verbs
  • 3 nouns
  • 4 adjectives

Verb forms

  • וַיִּֽהְיוּ֙ Qal · Sequential Imperfect
  • פְּקֻ֣דֵיהֶ֔ם Qal · Participle Passive

Hebrew & Septuagint length

In English translation the verse runs 20 words from the Hebrew and 23 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 15 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

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Topical passages linked to Numbers 4:40 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.

  • Numbers 3:32 Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest shall be prince of the princes of the Levites, with the oversight of those who keep the charge of the sanctuary.

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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.

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Hebrew Numbers 4:40 Masoretic · Westminster Leningrad Codex

וַיִּֽהְיוּ֙ פְּקֻ֣דֵיהֶ֔ם לְמִשְׁפְּחֹתָ֖ם לְבֵ֣ית אֲבֹתָ֑ם אַלְפַּ֕יִם וְשֵׁ֥שׁ מֵא֖וֹת וּשְׁלֹשִֽׁים

even those who were numbered of them, by their families, by their fathers' houses, were two thousand six hundred thirty.

World English Bible · Public Domain

Greek LXX Numbers 4:40 Septuagint · lemma form

καί γίγνομαι ὁ ἐπίσκεψις αὐτός κατά δῆμος αὐτός κατά οἶκος πατριά αὐτός δισχίλιοι ἑξακόσιοι τριάκοντα

And the numbering of them according to their families, according to the houses of their lineage, was two thousand six hundred and thirty.

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)

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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.

  1. Targum Onkelos Torah (Genesis–Deuteronomy)
    וַהֲווֹ מִנְיָנֵהוֹן לְזַרְעֲיַתְהוֹן לְבֵית אֲבָהַתְהוֹן תְּרֵין אַלְפִין וְשִׁית מְאָה וּתְלָתִין

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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.

  2. Targum Pseudo-Jonathan Torah (Genesis–Deuteronomy)
    וַהֲווֹ סְכוּמְהוֹן לִגְנִיסַתְהוֹן תְּרֵין אַלְפִין וְשִׁית מְאָה וּתְלָתִין

    the sums of them were two thousand six hundred and thirty.

    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.

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Numbers, in the Pentateuch, opens this verse with 9 words (9 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is shᵉlôwshîym (“thirty”). Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.

Discussion questions

  1. How does “thirty” (shᵉlôwshîym) shape what this verse is saying?
  2. Numbers 3:32 shares this passage’s theme. How do the two illuminate each other?
  3. These translations render this verse differently; the difference is in the English rendering, not the original. What questions does that raise?
  4. The verb «וַיִּֽהְיוּ֙» is Qal Sequential Imperfect. How does its form color the action?

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