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We will notלֹאreturnנָשׁוּבto our housesאֶל בָּתֵּינוּuntilעַדthe sonsבְּנֵיof Israelיִשְׂרָאֵלhave taken as inheritance,הִתְנַחֵלeachאִישׁhis inheritance.נַחֲלָתוֹ
Numbers 32:18
Study it in the app“We will not return to our houses until the sons of Israel have taken as inheritance, each his inheritance.”
With the Hebrew beneath
Numbers 32:18, word by word
- returnנָשׁוּבnashuv
return
To go back to a place.
Where else “nashuv” appears- to our housesבָּתֵּיbate
house
A building to live in, or an enclosed place to keep something or someone.
Where else “bate” appears- the sonsבְּנֵיbene
descendant
A descendant or member of a people: "sons of Israel".
Where else “bene” appears- of 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- have taken as inheritanceהִתְנַחֵלhitnachel
inherit
To receive as one's own what another gives or leaves, above all land.
Where else “hitnachel” appears- eachאִישׁish
each
Literally "a man": any person; with "not", not a single person.
Where else “ish” appears- his inheritanceנַחֲלָתnachalat
inheritance
Land or goods passed from parents to children.
Where else “nachalat” appears
The context
17But we will arm ourselves and go ready before the sons of Israel, until we have brought them to their place; and our little ones shall dwell in the fortified cities because of the inhabitants of the land.
18 · This verse (above)
19For we will not inherit with them on the other side of the Jordan and beyond, because our inheritance has come to us on this side of the Jordan, to the east.”