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So Balaamוַ בִּלְעָםroseיָּקָםin the morningבַּבֹּקֶרand saddledוַיַּחֲבֹשׁhis donkeyאֶת אֲתֹנוֹand wentוַיֵּלֶךְwithעִםthe princesשָׂרֵיof Moab.מוֹאָב
Numbers 22:21
Study it in the app“So Balaam rose in the morning and saddled his donkey and went with the princes of Moab.”
With the Hebrew beneath
Numbers 22:21, word by word
- So Balaamבִּלְעָםbilam
Balaam
Balaam, a diviner from Mesopotamia whom the king of Moab called to curse Israel. The name perhaps means "not of the people," that is, a foreigner.
Where else “bilam” appears- roseיָּקָםyakam
rise
To go from sitting or lying to standing, or to set out.
Where else “yakam” appears- in the morningבֹּקֶרboker
morning
Morning, dawn.
Where else “boker” appears- and saddledיַּחֲבֹשׁyachavosh
saddle
To fasten something firmly, or saddle an animal to ride it.
Where else “yachavosh” appears- his donkeyאֲתֹנaton
female donkey
Female donkey.
Where else “aton” appears- and wentיֵּלֶךְyelech
go
To head for a place, to leave where one is in order to reach another.
Where else “yelech” appears- the princesשָׂרֵיsare
nobleman
Someone of high rank by family or office: a noble, a great lord.
Where else “sare” appears- of Moabמוֹאָבmoav
Moab
See it on the mapWhere else “moav” appears
Places in this verse
Moab
Today: western Jordan, east of the Dead Sea
The land east of the Dead Sea, in present-day Jordan.
The Moabites came from a son of Lot (Gen 19:37). Ruth came from Moab (Ruth 1:1-4), and Moses died in its territory (Deut 34:5).
The context
20And Elohim came to Balaam at night and said to him, “If the men have come to call you, rise, go with them; but only the word that I speak to you, that you shall do.”
21 · This verse (above)
22But the anger of Elohim burned because he was going, and the angel of YHWH took his stand in the road as an opponent to him. Now he was riding on his donkey, and his two young men were with him.