Numbers 7:24

Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex) Numbers 7:24 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.
Download image
Cite this verse

Numbers 7:24 (World English Bible). Public Domain. Lemma interlinear Bible study tool, https://lemma.gebible.app/v/numbers/7/24.

Show BibTeX & RIS
BibTeX
RIS
English Translation
On the third day Eliab the son of Helon, prince of the children of Zebulun
World English Bible · Public Domain
Download a study sheet

One document with this verse’s original text, its word-by-word gloss line, the meaning frame, cross-references with their text, attributed commentary, and full source and license credits — printable, and it pastes into notes with its structure intact.

This verse Autodidact and up

Study sheet (.html) Plain text (.txt)

A passage Seminary Student

Up to 50 verses in one chapter. A passage sheet keeps up to 6 commentary sources and 12 cross-references per verse, in the order this page ranks them, and says so on the sheet whenever that leaves anything out. Ask for a single verse and you get the Autodidact verse sheet above.

Everything on this page stays free to read, with no account — the sheet is a download of what is already on screen, not access to it.

Want to remove ads? Support Godless Engineer
Compare translations 3

The same verse in 3 English versions, stacked beneath the original-language interlinear above. Click any original word for its lexicon entry.

Each is an independent rendering of the whole verse — the interlinear is not word-aligned to these translations.

Highlighted words mark where these versions differ — a whole-verse word diff, not a word-by-word alignment.

  • World English Bible Public Domain
    On the third day Eliab the son of Helon, prince of the children of Zebulun
  • King James Version Public Domain
    On the third day Eliab the son of Helon, prince of the children of Zebulun, did offer:
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
    On the third day, the leader for the sons of Zebulun, Eliab, the son of Helon:

unfoldingWord Literal Text — © unfoldingWord, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Word-aligned USFM3 via Door43 (git.door43.org/unfoldingWord/en_ult).

Versions to compare (up to 4)

3 of 4 selected

Show all 18 translations

Every available English version of this verse, each an independent rendering of the whole verse.

  • World English Bible Public Domain
    On the third day Eliab the son of Helon, prince of the children of Zebulun
  • Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
    On the third day Eliab son of Helon, the leader of the Zebulunites, drew near.
  • Majority Standard Bible Public Domain
    On the third day Eliab son of Helon, the leader of the Zebulunites, drew near.
  • King James Version Public Domain
    On the third day Eliab the son of Helon, prince of the children of Zebulun, did offer:
  • American Standard Version (1901) Public Domain
    On the third day Eliab the son of Helon, prince of the children of Zebulun.:
  • Revised Version (1885) Public Domain
    On the third day Eliab the son of Helon, prince of the children of Zebulun:
  • Geneva Bible (1599) Public Domain
    The third day Eliab the sonne of Helon prince of the children of Zebulun offred.
  • Douay-Rheims (1899) Public Domain
    An ox of the herd, and a ram, and a lamb of a year old for a holocaust:
  • Young's Literal Translation Public Domain
    On the third day, the prince of the sons of Zebulun, Eliab son of Helon; --
  • Literal Standard Version CC BY-SA 4.0
    On the third day, Eliab son of Helon, prince of the sons of Zebulun—
  • Unlocked Literal Bible CC BY-SA 4.0
    On the third day, Eliab son of Helon, leader of the descendants of Zebulun, offered his sacrifice.
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
    On the third day, the leader for the sons of Zebulun, Eliab, the son of Helon:
  • Darby Bible Public Domain
    On the third day, the prince of the children of Zebulun, Eliab the son of Helon:
  • World Messianic Bible Public Domain
    On the third day Eliab the son of Helon, prince of the children of Zebulun,
  • Webster's Bible Public Domain
    On the third day Eliab the son of Helon, prince of the children of Zebulun, offered:
  • Free Bible Version CC BY-SA 4.0
    The third day Eliab, son of Helon, the leader of the tribe of Zebulun, came forward.
  • Bible in Basic English Public Domain
    On the third day Eliab, the son of Helon, chief of the children of Zebulun:
  • JPS Tanakh (1917) Public Domain
    On the third day Eliab the son of Helon, prince of the children of Zebulun:

Literal Standard Version (2020), Covenant Press — licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Text via the HelloAO Bible API (eBible.org). Unlocked Literal Bible (unfoldingWord) — licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Text via the HelloAO Bible API (eBible.org). unfoldingWord Literal Text — © unfoldingWord, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Word-aligned USFM3 via Door43 (git.door43.org/unfoldingWord/en_ult). Free Bible Version, Dr. Jonathan Gallagher — licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Text via the HelloAO Bible API (eBible.org).

Word by word

More ways to search: Search by grammar → Find every occurrence → Compare this word →

Practice this passage: Drill this verse → Learn its vocabulary →

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 חֵלֹֽן Helon H2497 — appearing just 5 times in the whole Hebrew Bible.

Shared distinctive vocabulary

חֵלֹֽן Helon H2497 occurs in 5 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:

Grammatical profile

  • 7 nouns
  • 1 adjective

Repetition

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

  • לִבְנֵ֣י 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 8 Hebrew tokens and 11 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

2

Topical passages linked to Numbers 7:24 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.

  • Numbers 1:9 Of Zebulun: Eliab the son of Helon.
  • Numbers 2:7 The tribe of Zebulun: and the prince of the children of Zebulun shall be Eliab the son of Helon.

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

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 7:24 Masoretic · Westminster Leningrad Codex

בַּיּוֹם֙ הַשְּׁלִישִׁ֔י נָשִׂ֖יא לִבְנֵ֣י זְבוּלֻ֑ן אֱלִיאָ֖ב בֶּן חֵלֹֽן

On the third day Eliab the son of Helon, prince of the children of Zebulun

World English Bible · Public Domain

Greek LXX Numbers 7:24 Septuagint · lemma form

ὁ ἡμέρα ὁ τρίτος ἄρχων ὁ υἱός ζαβουλων ελιαβ υἱός χαιλων

On the third day the prince of the sons of Zabulon, Eliab the son of Chaelon.

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)

2

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)
    בְּיוֹמָא תְּלִיתָאָה רַבָּא לִבְנֵי זְבוּלֻן אֱלִיאָב בַּר חֵלֹן

    (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.

  2. Targum Pseudo-Jonathan Torah (Genesis–Deuteronomy)
    בְּיוֹמָא תְּלִיתָאָה קְרֵיב רַב בֵּית אַבָּא לִבְנֵי זְבוּלֻן אֱלִיאָב בַּר חֵלוֹן

    On the third day, Eliab bar Helon, prince of the Beni Zebulon, offered.

    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 7:24 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 →

John Gill's Exposition

One golden spoon of ten shekels, full of incense. See Gill on Num 7:14.

.

Numbers 7:33

num 7:33

num 7:33

num 7:33One young bullock, one ram, one lamb of the first year, for a burnt offering. See Gill on Num 7:15.

John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible (1746–1763) — public domain (CC PDM 1.0). Text via the HelloAO Bible API.

unfoldingWord translationNotes

Door43 World Missions Community

the third day

"day 3" or "day number 3" (See: Ordinal Numbers)

Eliab son of Helon

See how you translated this man's name in Numbers 1:9.

one silver platter weighing 130 shekels

If necessary, these weights can be written in modern measurements. See how you translated these same weights in Numbers 7:13. AT: "one silver platter weighing nearly one and a half kilograms" or "one silver platter weighing one kilogram and 430 grams" (See: Biblical Weight and Numbers)

one silver bowl weighing seventy shekels

"one silver bowl weighing 70 shekels." If necessary, these weights can be written in modern measurements. See how you translated these same weights in Numbers 7:13. AT: "one silver bowl weighing nearly eight tenths of a kilogram" or "one silver bowl weighting 770 grams" (See: Biblical Weight and Numbers)

by the standard weight of the sanctuary shekel

There were shekels of different weights. This is the one that people had to use in the sanctuary of the sacred tent. See how you translated this phrase in Numbers 7:13. AT: "measured by the standard weights used in the sanctuary" (See: Biblical Weight)

fine flour mixed with oil

This can be stated in active form. AT: "fine flour that he had mixed with oil" (See: Active or Passive)

one gold dish weighing ten shekels

If necessary, this can be written in modern measurements. See how you translated these same weights in Numbers 7:14. AT: "one gold dish weighing one tenth of a kilogram" or "one gold dish weighting 110 grams" (See: Biblical Weight)

translationWords

day

descend

Zebulun

silver

sanctuary

oil

grain offering

gold

incense

unfoldingWord translationNotes — © Distant Shores Media and the Door43 World Missions Community, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Source: git.door43.org/Door43/en_tn.

Rashi

Rabbi Shlomo Yitzchaki (Rashi)

ביום השלישי וגו׳ means, ON THE THIRD DAY, THE PRINCE who offered WAS OF THE SONS OF ZEBULUN, and similar is the meaning of the parallel statement in the case of all of them (all the other tribes). In the case of Nethaneel, however, of whom it is stated, (v. 18) הקריב “[on the second day] did Nethaneel the son of Zuar offer”, it is appropriate to use after it the phrase: “the prince of Issachar”, since it has already mentioned his name and the fact that he offered, whilst in the case of the others of whom it is not stated “he offered”, this phrase is the appropriate one, viz., the prince belonging to the sons of that-and-that tribe, when the meaning of the entire sentence is: on that day the prince who offered was of the sons of so-and-so.

Rashi on the Tanakh — English translations: “The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg” (CC BY 4.0); “Pentateuch with Rashi's commentary by M. Rosenbaum and A.M. Silbermann, 1929-1934” (public domain); “The Metsudah Tanach series, Lakewood, N.J” (CC BY 4.0); and “The Book of Joshua, Metsudah Publications, 1997” (CC BY 4.0). Text via Sefaria.

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 Chêlôn (“Helon”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.

Discussion questions

  1. The word Chêlôn carries the sense “Helon.” How does it shape the verse?
  2. How does Numbers 1:9, which shares the word «Helon», read alongside this verse?
  3. What does the repetition of “son” (2× in this one verse) do in this verse?
  4. 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?
  5. Compare how John Gill's Exposition and unfoldingWord translationNotes read this verse. Where do they agree or differ?

Things to notice

Reading settings

Reading text

Shown beneath each verse's original-language words.

Old Testament
Old Testament edition

Read the OT as the Masoretic Hebrew (MT) or the Greek Septuagint (LXX).

English shown for the Greek Septuagint (in the Hebrew ↔ Greek comparison).

Comparing translations? Open the Compare panel on any verse page to stack up to four side by side.