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So Mosesוַ מֹשֶׁהand Aaronוְאַהֲרֹןtookיִּקַּחtheseאֵת הָאֵלֶּהmenהָאֲנָשִׁיםwhoאֲשֶׁרhad been designatedנִקְּבוּby names,בְּשֵׁמוֹת
Numbers 1:17
Study it in the app“So Moses and Aaron took these men who had been designated by names,”
With the Hebrew beneath
Numbers 1:17, word by word
- So Mosesמֹשֶׁהmoshe
Moses
Moses, the man God called to bring Israel out of Egypt and through whom he gave the Law. His name sounds like "draw out" (Exodus 2:10).
Where else “moshe” appears- and Aaronאַהֲרֹןaharon
Aaron
Aaron, the older brother of Moses, his spokesman before Pharaoh and the first high priest of Israel.
Where else “aharon” appears- tookיִּקַּחyikach
fetch
To take someone along, or go and fetch something.
Where else “yikach” appears- menאֲנָשִׁיםanashim
man
An adult male person; also each man of a people, a trade or a place.
Where else “anashim” appears- had been designatedנִקְּבוּnikvu
name
To single someone or something out by name, or to fix an amount.
Where else “nikvu” appears- by namesשֵׁמוֹתshemot
name
The word by which a person, place or thing is called and recognized.
Where else “shemot” appears
The context
16These were the ones called from the community, the chiefs of the tribes of their fathers; they were the heads of the thousands of Israel.
17 · This verse (above)
18and they assembled the whole community on the first day of the second month, and they declared their descent by their families, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and upward, head by head,