Numbers 7:78

Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex)

English Translation

On the twelfth day Ahira the son of Enan, prince of the children of Naphtali

World English Bible · Public Domain

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אֲחִירַ֖ע

ʼĂchîyraʻ

H299

“Ahira”

Noun, Proper

Appears 5× in the Hebrew Bible
First appears at Numbers 1:15

Full BDB Definition

Origin: from H251 and H7451

TWOT: None

Ahira = "my brother is evil" - a chief of Naphtali

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 →

10: words
8: distinct lemmas
Pentateuch: section

Notable vocabulary

The rarest word here is אֲחִירַ֖ע Ahira H299 — appearing just 5 times in the whole Hebrew Bible.

Shared distinctive vocabulary

אֲחִירַ֖ע Ahira H299 occurs in 5 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:

Grammatical profile

8 nouns
2 adjectives

Repetition

Words recur within this verse — often emphatic in Hebrew:

בְּיוֹם֙ day H3117 ×2
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 10 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

Topical passages linked to Numbers 7:78 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.

Numbers 1:15 Of Naphtali: Ahira the son of Enan."
Numbers 2:29 "The tribe of Naphtali: and the prince of the children of Naphtali shall be Ahira the son of Enan.

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 7:78 Masoretic · Westminster Leningrad Codex

בְּיוֹם֙ שְׁנֵ֣ים עָשָׂ֣ר י֔וֹם נָשִׂ֖יא לִבְנֵ֣י נַפְתָּלִ֑י אֲחִירַ֖ע בֶּן עֵינָֽן

On the twelfth day Ahira the son of Enan, prince of the children of Naphtali

World English Bible · Public Domain

Greek LXX Numbers 7:78 Septuagint · lemma form

ὁ ἡμέρα ὁ δωδέκατος ἄρχων ὁ υἱός νεφθαλι αχιρε υἱός αιναν

On the twelfth day the prince of the sons of Nephthali, Achire the son of Aenan.

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)

בְּיוֹמָא תְּרֵי עֲשַׂר יוֹמָא רַבָּא לִבְנֵי נַפְתָּלִי אֲחִירַע בַּר עֵינָן

(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)

בְּיוֹם תְּרֵיסַר יוֹמָא קְרֵיב רַב בֵּית אַבָּא לִבְנֵי נַפְתָּלִי אֲחִירַע בַּר עֵינָן

and on the twelfth day, Achira bar Enan, prince of the Beni Naphtali, 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 7:78 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

the twelfth day

"day 12" or "day number 12) (See: Ordinal Numbers)

Ahira son of Enan

See how you translated this man's name in Numbers 1:15.

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

Naphtali

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 10 words (8 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is ʼĂchîyraʻ (“Ahira”). Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.

Discussion questions

How does “Ahira” (ʼĂchîyraʻ) shape what this verse is saying?
Numbers 1:15 shares the word «Ahira» with this verse. How do the two illuminate each other?
“day” occurs 2× in this one verse. What is the effect of the repetition?
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?

Things to notice

This verse counts 10 Hebrew ↔ 11 Greek words.
These translations choose different wording for 5 words in this verse.
“day” occurs 2× in this single verse.
8 distinct Hebrew lemmas span 10 words in this verse.