The Meaning of Numbers 33:31 Explained

Numbers 33:31

KJV: And they departed from Moseroth, and pitched in Benejaakan.

YLT: And they journey from Moseroth, and encamp in Bene-Jaakan;

Darby: And they removed from Moseroth, and encamped in Bene-Jaakan.

ASV: And they journeyed from Moseroth, and encamped in Bene-jaakan.

KJV Reverse Interlinear

And they departed  from Moseroth,  and pitched  in Benejaakan. 

What does Numbers 33:31 Mean?

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 33:31 mean?

And they departed from Moserah and camped at Bene-jaakan
וַיִּסְע֖וּ מִמֹּסֵר֑וֹת וַֽיַּחֲנ֖וּ בִּבְנֵ֥י יַעֲקָֽן

וַיִּסְע֖וּ  And  they  departed 
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.
מִמֹּסֵר֑וֹת  from  Moserah 
Parse: Preposition-m, Proper Noun, feminine singular
Root: מֹוסֵרָה 
Sense: a place near Mount Hor where Aaron died.
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.
בִּבְנֵ֥י  at 
Parse: Preposition
יַעֲקָֽן  Bene-jaakan 
Parse: Preposition, Proper Noun, feminine singular
Root: בְּנֵי יַעֲקָן  
Sense: an Israelite place of encampment in the wilderness (same as 0885).

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