The Meaning of Numbers 32:30 Explained

Numbers 32:30

KJV: But if they will not pass over with you armed, they shall have possessions among you in the land of Canaan.

YLT: and if they do not pass over armed with you, then they have possessions in your midst in the land of Canaan.'

Darby: but if they do not pass over with you armed, they shall have possessions among you in the land of Canaan.

ASV: but if they will not pass over with you armed, they shall have possessions among you in the land of Canaan.

KJV Reverse Interlinear

But if they will not pass over  with you armed,  they shall have possessions  among  you in the land  of Canaan. 

What does Numbers 32:30 Mean?

Context Summary

Numbers 32:20-42 - Warning Against Forsaking Their Brethren
These two and a half tribes never entered the national life, as did those on the other side of Jordan. They were far from the center of religious life, first at Shiloh and then at Jerusalem. On them first the tide of invasion broke, sweeping them and their cattle into captivity.
In Deborah's great song Reuben is rebuked for sitting "among the sheepfolds to hear the pipings for the flocks," instead of coming to the help of the Lord against the mighty. The Brahmins say that the holy man dies to every other sin earlier and easier than to the love of money. Their cattle kept these tribes on the wrong side of the river of separation! Let us beware of the cares of this world, if we are poor, and of the deceitfulness of riches, if we are rich. Better lose all than the soul. See Matthew 16:26. [source]

Chapter Summary: Numbers 32

1  The Reubenites and Gadites ask for inheritance on the east side of Jordan
6  Moses reproves them
16  They offer him conditions with which he is content
33  Moses assigns them the land
39  They conquer it

What do the individual words in Numbers 32:30 mean?

but if not they do cross over armed with you and they shall have possessions among you in the land of Canaan
וְאִם־ לֹ֧א יַֽעַבְר֛וּ חֲלוּצִ֖ים אִתְּכֶ֑ם וְנֹֽאחֲז֥וּ בְתֹכְכֶ֖ם‪‬ בְּאֶ֥רֶץ כְּנָֽעַן

וְאִם־  but  if 
Parse: Conjunctive waw, Conjunction
Root: אִם  
Sense: if.
יַֽעַבְר֛וּ  they  do  cross  over 
Parse: Verb, Qal, Imperfect, third person masculine plural
Root: עָבַר 
Sense: to pass over or by or through, alienate, bring, carry, do away, take, take away, transgress.
חֲלוּצִ֖ים  armed 
Parse: Verb, Qal, QalPassParticiple, masculine plural
Root: חָלַץ 
Sense: to remove, draw out, draw off, take off, withdraw, equip (for war), arm for war, rescue, be rescued.
אִתְּכֶ֑ם  with  you 
Parse: Preposition, second person masculine plural
Root: אֵת 
Sense: with, near, together with.
וְנֹֽאחֲז֥וּ  and  they  shall  have  possessions 
Parse: Conjunctive waw, Verb, Nifal, Conjunctive perfect, third person common plural
Root: אָחוּז 
Sense: grasp, take hold, seize, take possession.
בְתֹכְכֶ֖ם‪‬  among  you 
Parse: Preposition-b, Noun, masculine singular construct, second person masculine plural
Root: תָּוֶךְ  
Sense: midst, middle.
בְּאֶ֥רֶץ  in  the  land 
Parse: Preposition-b, Noun, feminine singular construct
Root: אֶרֶץ  
Sense: land, earth.
כְּנָֽעַן  of  Canaan 
Parse: Proper Noun, masculine singular
Root: כְּנַעַן 
Sense: the 4th son of Ham and the progenitor of the Phoenicians and of the various nations who peopled the seacoast of Palestine.

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