Numbers 1 · Verse 37

Numbers 1:37

Those that were numbered of them, even of the tribe of Benjamin, were thirty and five thousand and four hundred.
Numbers 1:37, King James Version

Numbers 1:37 in other translations

BSBthose registered to the tribe of Benjamin numbered 35,400.
WEBthose who were counted of them, of the tribe of Benjamin, were thirty-five thousand four hundred.
ASVthose that were numbered of them, of the tribe of Benjamin, were thirty and five thousand and four hundred.
YLTtheir numbered ones, for the tribe of Benjamin, are five and thirty thousand and four hundred.
DARBYthose that were numbered of them, of the tribe of Benjamin, were thirty-five thousand four hundred.
BBEThirty-five thousand, four hundred of the tribe of Benjamin were numbered.
WebsterThose that were numbered of them, even of the tribe of Benjamin, were thirty and five thousand and four hundred.

What does Numbers 1:37 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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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 1:37 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
בִנְיָמִ֑ןvin.ya.MinBenjaminH1144
חֲמִשָּׁ֧הcha.mi.Shah[were] fiveH2568
וּשְׁלֹשִׁ֛יםu.she.lo.Shimand thirtyH7970
אֶ֖לֶף'E.lefthousandH505
וְאַרְבַּ֥עve.'ar.Ba'and fourH702
מֵאֽוֹת\׃\ \פme.'othundred<s>H3967

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Cross references for Numbers 1:37

  • Numbers 26:41

    These are the sons of Benjamin after their families: and they that were numbered of them were forty and five thousand and six hundred.

  • Numbers 2:23

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

  • Judges 20:44-46

    And there fell of Benjamin eighteen thousand men; all these were men of valour. And they turned and fled toward the wilderness unto the rock of Rimmon: and they gleaned of them in the highways five thousand men; and pursued hard after them unto Gidom, and slew two thousand men of them. So that all which fell that day of Benjamin were twenty and five thousand men that drew the sword; all these were men of valour.

  • 2 Chronicles 17:17

    And of Benjamin; Eliada a mighty man of valour, and with him armed men with bow and shield two hundred thousand.

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2:23; 26:41; Jud 20:44-46; 2Ch 17:17

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Context

  • Numbers 1:36

    Of the children of Benjamin, 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 1:37

    Those that were numbered of them, even of the tribe of Benjamin, were thirty and five thousand and four hundred.

  • Numbers 1:38

    Of the children of Dan, 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 1:37 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909
Los contados de ellos, de la tribu de Benjamín, treinta y cinco mil y cuatrocientos.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885
ceux qui furent dénombrés de la tribu de Benjamin furent 35 400.
German
Elberfelder 1871
ihre Gemusterten vom Stamme Benjamin, 35400.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate
triginta quinque millia quadringenti.