Numbers 33 · Verse 14

Numbers 33:14

And they removed from Alush, and encamped at Rephidim, where was no water for the people to drink.
Numbers 33:14, King James Version

Numbers 33:14 in other translations

BSBThey set out from Alush and camped at Rephidim, where there was no water for the people to drink.
WEBThey traveled from Alush, and encamped in Rephidim, where there was no water for the people to drink.
ASVAnd they journeyed from Alush, and encamped in Rephidim, where was no water for the people to drink.
YLTand they journey from Alush, and encamp in Rephidim; and there was there no water for the people to drink.
DARBYAnd they removed from Alush, and encamped at Rephidim, where there was no water for the people to drink.
BBEAnd they went on from Alush, and put up their tents in Rephidim, where there was no drinking-water for the people.
WebsterAnd they removed from Alush, and encamped at Rephidim, where was no water for the people to drink.

What does Numbers 33:14 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Numbers 33:12-14

12-14. Dophkah ... Alush ... Rephidim--These three stations, in the great valleys of El Sheikh and Feiran, would be equivalent to four days' journey for such a host. Rephidim (Ex 17:6) was in Horeb, the burnt region--a generic name for a hot, mountainous country. [See on Ex 17:1.]

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Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 14 Rephidim - Remarkable for the rebellion of the Israelites against Moses, because of the want of water, Exodus 17. Stat. 11.

Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Numbers 33:1-49

This is a brief review of the travels of the children of Israel through the wilderness. It is a memorable history. In their travels towards Canaan they were continually on the remove. Such is our state in this world; we have here no continuing city, and all our removes in this world are but from one part a desert to another. They were led to and fro, forward and backward, yet were all the while under the direction…

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Numbers 33:14 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.

וַיִּסְע֖וּvai.yis.'Uand they set outH5265
מֵאָל֑וּשׁme.'a.Lushfrom AlushH442
וַֽיַּחֲנוּ֙vai.ya.cha.Nuand they encampedH2583
בִּרְפִידִ֔םbir.fi.Dimat RephidimH7508
וְלֹא\־ve.lo'-and notH3808
הָ֨יָהHa.yahit belongedH1961
שָׁ֥םshamthereH8033
מַ֛יִםMa.yimwaterH4325
לָעָ֖םla.'Amto the peopleH5971
לִשְׁתּֽוֹת\׃lish.Totto drinkH8354

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

Cross references for Numbers 33:14

  • Exodus 19:2

    For they were departed from Rephidim, and were come to the desert of Sinai, and had pitched in the wilderness; and there Israel camped before the mount.

  • Exodus 17:1-8

    And all the congregation of the children of Israel journeyed from the wilderness of Sin, after their journeys, according to the commandment of the Lord, and pitched in Rephidim: and there was no water for the people to drink. Wherefore the people did chide with Moses, and said, Give us water that we may drink. And Moses said unto them, Why chide ye with me? wherefore do ye tempt the Lord? And the people thirsted there for water; and the people murmured against Moses, and said, Wherefore is this that thou hast brought us up out of Egypt, to kill us and our children and our cattle with thirst? And Moses cried unto the Lord, saying, What shall I do unto this people? they be almost ready to stone me. …

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Rephidim.
Ex 17:1-8; 19:2

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (Samuel Bagster, c. 1836) · public domain

Context

  • Numbers 33:13

    And they departed from Dophkah, and encamped in Alush.

  • Numbers 33:14

    And they removed from Alush, and encamped at Rephidim, where was no water for the people to drink.

  • Numbers 33:15

    And they departed from Rephidim, and pitched in the wilderness of Sinai.

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Numbers 33:14 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909
Y partidos de Alús, asentaron en Rephidim, donde el pueblo no tuvo aguas para beber.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885
Et ils partirent d’Alush, et campèrent à Rephidim, où il n’y avait pas d’eau à boire pour le peuple.
German
Elberfelder 1871
Und sie brachen auf von Alusch und lagerten sich in Rephidim; und das Volk hatte daselbst kein Wasser zu trinken.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate
Egressique de Alus, in Raphidim fixere tentoria, ubi populo defuit aqua ad bibendum.