The Meaning of Numbers 16:45 Explained

Numbers 16:45

KJV: Get you up from among this congregation, that I may consume them as in a moment. And they fell upon their faces.

YLT: 'Get you up from the midst of this company, and I consume them in a moment;' and they fall on their faces,

Darby: Get you up from the midst of this assembly, and I will consume them in a moment. And they fell on their faces.

ASV: Get you up from among this congregation, that I may consume them in a moment. And they fell upon their faces.

KJV Reverse Interlinear

Get you up  from among  this congregation,  that I may consume  them as in a moment.  And they fell  upon their faces. 

What does Numbers 16:45 Mean?

Context Summary

Numbers 16:36-50 - "between The Dead And The Living"
The censers served as plates for the altar. Even evil men and evil things will be made to subserve the divine purposes. See Acts 2:23. What a wonderful anticipation of our Lord's eternal priesthood and intercession is furnished by this picture of Aaron waving his censer between the living and the dead, and arresting the plague! On which side do you stand? Are you among the living, or among the dead? Is Christ to you a savor of life unto life or of death unto death? Awake thou that sleepest and arise from the dead, and Christ shall enlighten thee.
The priesthood and the incense-offering had been usurped by Korah to his destruction; but as exercised by God's appointed priest, they brought life. It is an awful thing for mortal man to intrude into the sacred prerogatives of Christ. See 1 Timothy 2:5. [source]

Chapter Summary: Numbers 16

1  The rebellion of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram
23  Moses separates the people from the rebels' tents
31  The earth swallows up Korah, and a fire consumes others
36  The censers are reserved to holy use
41  14,700 are slain by a plague, for murmuring against Moses and Aaron
46  Aaron by incense stays the plague

What do the individual words in Numbers 16:45 mean?

Get away from among congregation this that I may consume them in a moment And they fell on their faces
הֵרֹ֗מּוּ מִתּוֹךְ֙ הָעֵדָ֣ה הַזֹּ֔את וַאֲכַלֶּ֥ה אֹתָ֖ם כְּרָ֑גַע וַֽיִּפְּל֖וּ עַל־ פְּנֵיהֶֽם

הֵרֹ֗מּוּ  Get  away 
Parse: Verb, Nifal, Imperative, masculine plural
Root: רָמַם  
Sense: to be exalted, be lifted up.
מִתּוֹךְ֙  from  among 
Parse: Preposition-m, Noun, masculine singular construct
Root: תָּוֶךְ  
Sense: midst, middle.
הָעֵדָ֣ה  congregation 
Parse: Article, Noun, feminine singular
Root: עֵדָה  
Sense: congregation, gathering.
הַזֹּ֔את  this 
Parse: Article, Pronoun, feminine singular
Root: זׄאת  
Sense: this, this one, here, which, this … that, the one … the other, such.
וַאֲכַלֶּ֥ה  that  I  may  consume 
Parse: Conjunctive waw, Verb, Piel, Conjunctive imperfect Cohortative if contextual, first person common singular
Root: כָּלָה  
Sense: to accomplish, cease, consume, determine, end, fail, finish, be complete, be accomplished, be ended, be at an end, be finished, be spent.
כְּרָ֑גַע  in  a  moment 
Parse: Preposition-k, Noun, masculine singular
Root: רֶגַע  
Sense: a moment adv.
וַֽיִּפְּל֖וּ  And  they  fell 
Parse: Conjunctive waw, Verb, Qal, Consecutive imperfect, third person masculine plural
Root: נָפַל  
Sense: to fall, lie, be cast down, fail.
פְּנֵיהֶֽם  their  faces 
Parse: Noun, masculine plural construct, third person masculine plural
Root: לִפְנֵי 
Sense: face.