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So Israelוַ יִשְׂרָאֵלsettledיֵּשֶׁבin the landבְּאֶרֶץof the Amorite.הָאֱמֹרִי
Numbers 21:31
Study it in the app“So Israel settled in the land of the Amorite.”
With the Hebrew beneath
Numbers 21:31, word by word
- So Israelיִשְׂרָאֵלyisrael
Israel
Israel, the new name Jacob received from God, explained as "you have striven with God" (Genesis 32:28); then the name of the people that came from him and, after the division, of the northern kingdom.
Where else “yisrael” appears- settledיֵּשֶׁבyeshev
dwell
To make one's home in a place.
Where else “yeshev” appears- in the landאֶרֶץerets
land
A region or nation, above all Israel's.
Where else “erets” appears- of the Amoriteאֱמֹרִיemori
Amorite
Amorite: one of the main peoples of Canaan before Israel.
Where else “emori” appears
The context
30But we shot them down; Heshbon has perished as far as Dibon, and we laid waste as far as Nophah, which reaches as far as Medeba.”
31 · This verse (above)
32And Moses sent to spy out Jazer, and they captured its villages and dispossessed the Amorite who were there.