But Mosesוַ מֹשֶׁהsaid,יֹּאמֶר“Six hundred thousandשֵׁשׁ מֵאוֹת אֶלֶףon footרַגְלִיare the peopleהָעָםamong whomאֲשֶׁר בְּקִרְבּוֹI am,אָנֹכִיand youוְאַתָּהhave said,אָמַרְתָּ‘I will giveאֶתֵּןthemלָהֶםmeat,בָּשָׂרthat they may eatוְאָכְלוּa wholeיָמִיםmonth.’חֹדֶשׁ
Numbers 11:21
Study it in the app“But Moses said, “Six hundred thousand on foot are the people among whom I am, and you have said, ‘I will give them meat, that they may eat a whole month.’”
With the Hebrew beneath
Numbers 11:21, word by word
- But 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- saidיֹּאמֶרyomer
say
To say with the mouth to someone what one thinks or wants, or to answer him.
Where else “yomer” appears- “Six hundred thousandשֵׁשׁshesh
six
Six; also "sixth".
Where else “shesh” appears- “Six hundred thousandמֵאוֹתmeot
hundred
The amount of one hundred; with other numbers it forms two hundred, three hundred and the rest.
Where else “meot” appears- “Six hundred thousandאֶלֶףelef
thousand
One thousand: a large, round number.
Where else “elef” appears- on footרַגְלִיragli
on foot
On foot: a grown man who marches on foot.
Where else “ragli” appears- are the peopleעָםam
crowd
The people gathered in a place: the crowd, or the troops that go out to war.
Where else “am” appears- among whomקִרְבּkirb
midst
In the midst of: "among the people".
Where else “kirb” appears- ‘I will giveאֶתֵּןeten
give
To hand something over to someone: a gift, a payment, a charge or a land.
Where else “eten” appears- meatבָּשָׂרbasar
meat
Meat to eat.
Where else “basar” appears- that they may eatאָכְלוּachlu
eat
To bring food to the mouth and swallow it, above all at a shared table.
Where else “achlu” appears- a wholeיָמִיםyamim
day
The day, the hours of light, or a whole day.
Where else “yamim” appears- month.’חֹדֶשׁchodesh
month
A period of about thirty days, from one new moon to the next.
Where else “chodesh” appears
The context
20but a whole month, until it comes out of your nostrils and becomes loathsome to you, because you have despised YHWH who is among you and have wept before him, saying, “Why did we ever come out of Egypt?”’”
21 · This verse (above)
22Shall flocks and herds be slaughtered for them, to be enough for them? Or shall all the fish of the sea be gathered for them, to be enough for them?”