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So he returnedוַיָּשָׁבto him,אֵלָיוandוְlook,הִנֵּהheהוּאwas standingנִצָּבbesideעַלhis burnt offering,עֹלָתוֹandוְallכָלthe princesשָׂרֵיof Moab.מוֹאָב
Numbers 23:6
Study it in the app“So he returned to him, and look, he was standing beside his burnt offering, and all the princes of Moab.”
With the Hebrew beneath
Numbers 23:6, word by word
- So he returnedיָּשָׁבyashav
return
To go back to a place.
Where else “yashav” appears- was standingנִצָּבnitsav
stand
To remain upright in a place without moving.
Where else “nitsav” appears- his burnt offeringעֹלָתolat
burnt offering
A sacrifice burned whole on the altar.
Where else “olat” 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
5And YHWH put a word in the mouth of Balaam and said, “Return to Balak, and thus you shall speak.”
6 · This verse (above)
7And he took up his poem and said, “From Aram Balak, the king of Moab, has brought me, from the mountains of the east: ‘Come, curse Jacob for me, and come, denounce Israel!’