Numbers 11:31

“And a wind set out from YHWH and brought across quails from the sea and let them fall beside the camp, about a day’s journey on this side and about a day’s journey on that side, around the camp, and about two cubits above the surface of the ground.”

Numbers 11:31 · direct translation from the Hebrew
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Numbers 11:31, word by word

And a windרוּחַruach

wind

Moving air; also the four quarters of the horizon.

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set outנָסַעnasa

set out

To break camp and set out for another place.

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YHWHיְהוָהyehva

YHWH

The personal name of the God of Israel, written in Hebrew with four letters, Y-H-W-H, without vowels. Out of reverence Jews stopped pronouncing it and read "Adonai" (Lord), so many Bibles put "the LORD" or "Jehovah". This translation keeps the four letters. The name is related to the verb "to be" (Exodus 3:14-15). He is not a god other than Elohim: "YHWH Elohim" is the same Creator God, called by his name.

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and brought acrossיָּגָזyagaz

bring across

To carry something from one place to another, as the wind does.

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quailsשַׂלְוִיםsalvim

quail

Quail: small birds that travel in large flocks.

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from the seaיָּםyam

sea

The sea, or a large lake.

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and let them fallיִּטֹּשׁyitosh

spread out

For an army to spread out over a place, occupying it.

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the campמַּחֲנֶהmachane

camp

A place where a group settles to live temporarily, with order and limits.

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about a day’s journeyדֶרֶךְderech

journey

The stretch one covers going from place to place, and how long it takes.

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about a day’s journeyיוֹםyom

day

The day, the hours of light, or a whole day.

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aroundסְבִיבוֹתsevivot

around

In a circle or on every side of something: the camp, the city, the altar.

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and about two cubitsאַמָּתַיִםamatayim

cubit

About 45 centimeters: from the bent arm to the fingertips.

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the surfaceפְּנֵיpene

surface

The surface: "the face of the earth".

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of the groundאָרֶץarets

ground

What is underfoot: bowing down to touch it.

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The context

30And Moses withdrew to the camp, he and the elders of Israel.

31 · This verse (above)

32And the people rose up all that day and all the night and all the next day, and gathered the quails; the one who gathered least gathered ten homers; and they spread them out for themselves around the camp.

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