Numbers 1 · Verse 33

Numbers 1:33

Those that were numbered of them, even of the tribe of Ephraim, were forty thousand and five hundred.
Numbers 1:33, King James Version

Numbers 1:33 in other translations

BSBFrom the sons of Ephraim, according to the records of their clans and families, counting the names of all those twenty years of age or older who could serve in the army, those registered to the tribe of Ephraim numbered 40,500.
WEBthose who were counted of them, of the tribe of Ephraim, were forty thousand five hundred.
ASVthose that were numbered of them, of the tribe of Ephraim, were forty thousand and five hundred.
YLTtheir numbered ones, for the tribe of Ephraim, are forty thousand and five hundred.
DARBYthose that were numbered of them, of the tribe of Ephraim, were forty thousand five hundred.
BBEForty thousand, five hundred of the tribe of Ephraim were numbered.
WebsterThose that were numbered of them, even of the tribe of Ephraim, were forty thousand and five hundred.

What does Numbers 1:33 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Numbers 1:20-44

20-44. These are those that were numbered--In this registration the tribe of Judah appears the most numerous; and accordingly, as the pre-eminence had been assigned to it by Jacob [Ge 49:8-12], it got the precedence in all the encampments of Israel. Of the two half-tribes of Joseph, who is seen to be "a fruitful bough" [Ge 49:22], that of Ephraim was the larger, as had been predicted. The relative increase of all…

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Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 33 The tribe of Ephraim - forty thousand and five hundred - Ephraim, as he was blessed beyond his eldest brother Manasseh, Gen 48:20, so here he is increased by thousands more than Manasseh, and more than the whole tribe of Benjamin, and his blessing continued above his brother, Deu 33:17. And thus the prophecy, Gen 48:19, was fulfilled: His younger brother (Ephraim) shall be greater than he, (Manasseh). No word of God can possibly fall to the ground: he alone sees the end from the beginning; his infinite wisdom embraces all occurrences, and it is his province alone to determine what is right, and to predict what himself has purposed to accomplish.

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Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Numbers 1:1-43

The people were numbered to show God's faithfulness in thus increasing the seed of Jacob, that they might be the better trained for the wars and conquest of Canaan, and to ascertain their families in order to the division of the land. It is said of each tribe, that those were numbered who were able to go forth to war; they had wars before them, though now they met with no opposition. Let the believer be prepared to…

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Numbers 1:33 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

פְּקֻדֵיהֶ֖םpe.ku.dei.Hemenrolled [men] theirH6485
לְמַטֵּ֣הle.ma.Tehof [the] tribe ofH4294
אֶפְרָ֑יִם'ef.Ra.yimEphraimH669
אַרְבָּעִ֥ים'ar.ba.'Im[were] fortyH705
אֶ֖לֶף'E.lefthousandH505
וַחֲמֵ֥שׁva.cha.Meshand fiveH2568
מֵאֽוֹת\׃\ \פme.'othundred<s>H3967

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Cross references for Numbers 1:33

  • Numbers 26:37

    These are the families of the sons of Ephraim according to those that were numbered of them, thirty and two thousand and five hundred. These are the sons of Joseph after their families.

  • Numbers 2:19

    And his host, and those that were numbered of them, were forty thousand and five hundred.

  • Genesis 48:5

    And now thy two sons, Ephraim and Manasseh, which were born unto thee in the land of Egypt before I came unto thee into Egypt, are mine; as Reuben and Simeon, they shall be mine.

  • Deuteronomy 33:17

    His glory is like the firstling of his bullock, and his horns are like the horns of unicorns: with them he shall push the people together to the ends of the earth: and they are the ten thousands of Ephraim, and they are the thousands of Manasseh.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
the tribe.
Ge 48:5; De 33:17
were forty.
2:19; 26:37

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Context

  • Numbers 1:32

    Of the children of Joseph, namely, of the children of Ephraim, by their generations, after their families, by the house of their fathers, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war;

  • Numbers 1:33

    Those that were numbered of them, even of the tribe of Ephraim, were forty thousand and five hundred.

  • Numbers 1:34

    Of the children of Manasseh, by their generations, after their families, by the house of their fathers, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war;

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Numbers 1:33 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909
Los contados de ellos, de la tribu de Ephraim, cuarenta mil y quinientos.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885
ceux qui furent dénombrés de la tribu d’Éphraïm furent 40 500.
German
Elberfelder 1871
ihre Gemusterten vom Stamme Ephraim, 40500.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate
quadraginta millia quingenti.