The Meaning of Numbers 33:16 Explained

Numbers 33:16

KJV: And they removed from the desert of Sinai, and pitched at Kibrothhattaavah.

YLT: and they journey from the wilderness of Sinai, and encamp in Kibroth-Hattaavah.

Darby: And they removed from the wilderness of Sinai, and encamped at Kibroth-hattaavah.

ASV: And they journeyed from the wilderness of Sinai, and encamped in Kibroth-hattaavah.

KJV Reverse Interlinear

And they removed  from the desert  of Sinai,  and pitched  at Kibrothhattaavah. 

What does Numbers 33:16 Mean?

Study Notes

Kibroth-hattaavah
i.e. the graves of lust.

Context Summary

Numbers 33:1-37 - The Itinerary Of The Wanderings
This record of ineffectual marches is full of pathetic interest and warning. If these halting-places had been in the straight line of march for the Land of Promise there had been little room for regret. But they were not. They recall journeys that need never to have been taken. The tribes crossed and re-crossed the desert, marking time while the bodies of the murmurers fell in the Wilderness and were wrapped about with the desert sands.
Such is the doom of unbelief. To effect nothing, to miss the rest of God, and to perish on the threshold of achievement-such is the experience of the soul described in James 1:6. God has given us in Christ the promise of rest, victory and satisfaction; let us enter upon our inheritance! [source]

Chapter Summary: Numbers 33

1  The forty-two journeys of the Israelites
50  The Canaanites are to be destroyed

What do the individual words in Numbers 33:16 mean?

And they moved from the Wilderness of Sinai and camped at Kibroth Hattaavah
וַיִּסְע֖וּ מִמִּדְבַּ֣ר סִינָ֑י וַֽיַּחֲנ֖וּ בְּקִבְרֹ֥ת הַֽתַּאֲוָֽה

וַיִּסְע֖וּ  And  they  moved 
Parse: Conjunctive waw, Verb, Qal, Consecutive imperfect, third person masculine plural
Root: נָסַע  
Sense: to pull out, pull up, set out, journey, remove, set forward, depart.
מִמִּדְבַּ֣ר  from  the  Wilderness 
Parse: Preposition-m, Noun, masculine singular construct
Root: מִדְבָּר 
Sense: wilderness.
סִינָ֑י  of  Sinai 
Parse: Proper Noun, feminine singular
Root: סִינַי  
Sense: the mountain where Moses received the Law from Jehovah; located at the southern end of the Sinai peninsula between the horns of the Red Sea; exact site unknown.
וַֽיַּחֲנ֖וּ  and  camped 
Parse: Conjunctive waw, Verb, Qal, Consecutive imperfect, third person masculine plural
Root: חָנָה  
Sense: to decline, incline, encamp, bend down, lay siege against.
בְּקִבְרֹ֥ת  at 
Parse: Preposition
הַֽתַּאֲוָֽה  Kibroth  Hattaavah 
Parse: Preposition, Proper Noun, feminine singular
Root: הַתַּאֲוָה 
Sense: a station of Israel in the wilderness 3 campsites away from Sinai near the gulf of Akabah.

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