The Meaning of Numbers 4:44 Explained

Numbers 4:44

KJV: Even those that were numbered of them after their families, were three thousand and two hundred.

YLT: even their numbered ones, by their families, are three thousand and two hundred.

Darby: even those that were numbered of them according to their families, were three thousand two hundred.

ASV: even those that were numbered of them by their families, were three thousand and two hundred.

KJV Reverse Interlinear

Even those that were numbered  of them after their families,  were three  thousand  and two hundred. 

What does Numbers 4:44 Mean?

Chapter Summary: Numbers 4

1  The age at which the Levites were to serve, and the duration of the service
4  The duty of the Kohathites
16  The charge of Eleazar
17  The office of the priests
21  The duty of the Gershonites
29  Of the Merarites
34  The number of the Kohathites
38  Of the Gershonites
42  And of the Merarites

What do the individual words in Numbers 4:44 mean?

and were those who were numbered by their families three thousand and two hundred
וַיִּהְי֥וּ פְקֻדֵיהֶ֖ם לְמִשְׁפְּחֹתָ֑ם שְׁלֹ֥שֶׁת אֲלָפִ֖ים וּמָאתָֽיִם

וַיִּהְי֥וּ  and  were 
Parse: Conjunctive waw, Verb, Qal, Consecutive imperfect, third person masculine plural
Root: אֶהְיֶה 
Sense: to be, become, come to pass, exist, happen, fall out.
פְקֻדֵיהֶ֖ם  those  who  were  numbered 
Parse: 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.
לְמִשְׁפְּחֹתָ֑ם  by  their  families 
Parse: Preposition-l, Noun, feminine plural construct, third person masculine plural
Root: מִשְׁפָּחָה  
Sense: clan, family.
שְׁלֹ֥שֶׁת  three 
Parse: Number, masculine singular construct
Root: מִשְׁלֹשׁ 
Sense: three, triad.
אֲלָפִ֖ים  thousand 
Parse: Number, masculine plural
Root: אֶלֶף 
Sense: a thousand.
וּמָאתָֽיִם  and  two  hundred 
Parse: Conjunctive waw, Number, fd
Root: מֵאָה 
Sense: hundred.