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by James Strong (S.T.D.) (LL.D.) 1890.
Bible Verse Dictionary
Numbers 31:38 - Twelve
Numbers 31:38 - And the beeves were thirty and six thousand; of which the LORD'S tribute was threescore and twelve.
Verse | Strongs No. | Hebrew | |
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And the beeves | H1241 | בָּקָר |
[Noun Masculine] a beeve or animal of the ox kind of either gender (as used for ploughing); collectively a herd |
were thirty | H7970 | שְׁלוֹשִׁים |
[Noun Masculine] thirty; or (ordinal) thirtieth |
and six | H8337 | שֵׁשׁ |
[Noun] a primitive number; six (as an overplus (see H7797) beyond five or the fingers of the hand); as ordinal sixth |
thousand | H505 | אֶלֶף |
[Noun Masculine] hence (an ox´ s head being the first letter of the {alphabet} and this eventually used as a numeral) a thousand |
of which the LORD'S tribute | H4371 | מֶכֶס |
[Noun Masculine] an assessment (as based upon a census) |
was threescore and twelve | H8147 | שְׁנַיִם |
[Noun] the second form being feminine); two; also (as ordinal) twofold |
Definitions are taken from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance
by James Strong (S.T.D.) (LL.D.) 1890.