The Meaning of Numbers 3:43 Explained

Numbers 3:43

KJV: And all the firstborn males by the number of names, from a month old and upward, of those that were numbered of them, were twenty and two thousand two hundred and threescore and thirteen.

YLT: And all the first-born -- male -- by the number of names, from a son of a month and upward, of their numbered ones, are two and twenty thousand two hundred and seventy and three.

Darby: And all the firstborn males, by the number of the names, from a month old and upward, according to their numbering, were twenty-two thousand two hundred and seventy-three.

ASV: And all the first-born males according to the number of names, from a month old and upward, of those that were numbered of them, were twenty and two thousand two hundred and threescore and thirteen.

KJV Reverse Interlinear

And all the firstborn  males  by the number  of names,  from a month  old  and upward,  of those that were numbered  of them, were twenty  and two  thousand  two hundred  and threescore and thirteen. 

What does Numbers 3:43 Mean?

Chapter Summary: Numbers 3

1  The sons of Aaron
5  The Levites are given to the priests instead of the firstborn
14  Are numbered by their families
21  The families, number, and charge of the Gershonites
27  Of the Kohathites
33  Of the Merarites
38  The place and charge of Moses and Aaron
40  The firstborn are freed by the Levites
44  The balances are refunded

What do the individual words in Numbers 3:43 mean?

And were all the firstborn males according to the number of names from old a month and above of those who were numbered of them two and twenty thousand three and seventy and two hundred -
וַיְהִי֩ כָל־ בְּכ֨וֹר זָכָ֜ר בְּמִסְפַּ֥ר שֵׁמ֛וֹת מִבֶּן־ חֹ֥דֶשׁ וָמַ֖עְלָה לִפְקֻדֵיהֶ֑ם שְׁנַ֤יִם וְעֶשְׂרִים֙ אֶ֔לֶף שְׁלֹשָׁ֥ה וְשִׁבְעִ֖ים וּמָאתָֽיִם פ

וַיְהִי֩  And  were 
Parse: Conjunctive waw, Verb, Qal, Consecutive imperfect, third person masculine singular
Root: אֶהְיֶה 
Sense: to be, become, come to pass, exist, happen, fall out.
בְּכ֨וֹר  the  firstborn 
Parse: Noun, masculine singular
Root: בְּכֹר  
Sense: firstborn, firstling.
זָכָ֜ר  males 
Parse: Noun, masculine singular
Root: זָכָר  
Sense: male (of humans and animals) adj.
בְּמִסְפַּ֥ר  according  to  the  number 
Parse: Preposition-b, Noun, masculine singular construct
Root: מִסְפָּר  
Sense: number, tale.
שֵׁמ֛וֹת  of  names 
Parse: Noun, masculine plural
Root: שֵׁם  
Sense: name.
מִבֶּן־  from  old 
Parse: Preposition-m, Noun, masculine singular construct
Root: בֵּן 
Sense: son, grandson, child, member of a group.
חֹ֥דֶשׁ  a  month 
Parse: Noun, masculine singular
Root: חֹדֶשׁ  
Sense: the new moon, month, monthly.
וָמַ֖עְלָה  and  above 
Parse: Conjunctive waw, Adverb, third person feminine singular
Root: מַעַל 
Sense: higher part, upper part adv.
לִפְקֻדֵיהֶ֑ם  of  those  who  were  numbered  of  them 
Parse: Preposition-l, Verb, Qal, QalPassParticiple, masculine plural construct, third person masculine plural
Root: פָּקַד 
Sense: to attend to, muster, number, reckon, visit, punish, appoint, look after, care for.
שְׁנַ֤יִם  two 
Parse: Number, md
Root: שְׁנַיִם  
Sense: two.
וְעֶשְׂרִים֙  and  twenty 
Parse: Conjunctive waw, Number, common plural
Root: עֶשְׂרִים  
Sense: twenty, twentieth.
אֶ֔לֶף  thousand 
Parse: Number, masculine singular
Root: אֶלֶף 
Sense: a thousand.
שְׁלֹשָׁ֥ה  three 
Parse: Number, masculine singular
Root: מִשְׁלֹשׁ 
Sense: three, triad.
וְשִׁבְעִ֖ים  and  seventy 
Parse: Conjunctive waw, Number, common plural
Root: שִׁבְעִים  
Sense: seventy.
וּמָאתָֽיִם  and  two  hundred 
Parse: Conjunctive waw, Number, fd
Root: מֵאָה 
Sense: hundred.
פ  - 
Parse: Punctuation

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