Study it in the app“So I took the heads of your tribes, wise and known men, and set them as heads over you, chiefs of thousands, chiefs of hundreds, chiefs of fifties, and chiefs of tens, and supervisors for your tribes.”
So I tookוָאֶקַּחthe headsאֶת רָאשֵׁיof your tribes,שִׁבְטֵיכֶםwiseחֲכָמִיםand knownוִידֻעִיםmen,אֲנָשִׁיםand setוָאֶתֵּןthemאֹתָםas headsרָאשִׁיםover you,עֲלֵיכֶםchiefsשָׂרֵיof thousands,אֲלָפִיםchiefsוְשָׂרֵיof hundreds,מֵאוֹתchiefsוְשָׂרֵיof fifties,חֲמִשִּׁיםand chiefsוְשָׂרֵיof tens,עֲשָׂרֹתand supervisorsוְשֹׁטְרִיםfor your tribes.לְשִׁבְטֵיכֶם
take
To grasp something in the hand to carry or use it.
Where else “ekach” appearschief
Literally "the head": the one who leads, or the best of something.
Where else “rashe” appearstribe
Literally "the rod": one of the twelve great clans of Israel.
Where else “shivte” appearswise
Someone who knows how to live well, revering YHWH.
Where else “chachamim” appearsknow
To know something, realize.
Where else “yduim” appearsman
An adult male person; also each man of a people, a trade or a place.
Where else “anashim” appearsmake
To make someone something: "I have made you a father".
Where else “eten” appearschief
Someone set over others, in the army or in the state.
Where else “sare” appearsdivision
A large unit of the army or a tribe, led by a chief.
Where else “alafim” appearscaptain of hundred
Leaders of groups of 100 soldiers.
Where else “meot” appearsfifty
Fifty.
Where else “chamishim” appearsten
Ten.
Where else “asarot” appearssupervisor
Supervisor: an official who keeps order and oversees others; in Egypt, the Israelite in charge of his own people's work who answered to the taskmasters (Exodus 5:14); in Israel, officials beside the judges and the elders (Deuteronomy 16:18).
Where else “shotrim” appears14You answered me and said, “The thing that you have spoken is good to do.”
15 · This verse (above)
16I commanded your judges at that time, saying, “Hear cases between your brothers, and judge righteously between a man and his brother or his resident alien.
