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Num. 23:7 KJV (With Strong’s)

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And he took up
nasa' (Hebrew #5375)
a primitive root; to lift, in a great variety of applications, literal and figurative, absol. and rel. (as follows)
KJV usage: accept, advance, arise, (able to, (armor), suffer to) bear(-er, up), bring (forth), burn, carry (away), cast, contain, desire, ease, exact, exalt (self), extol, fetch, forgive, furnish, further, give, go on, help, high, hold up, honorable (+ man), lade, lay, lift (self) up, lofty, marry, magnify, X needs, obtain, pardon, raise (up), receive, regard, respect, set (up), spare, stir up, + swear, take (away, up), X utterly, wear, yield.
Pronounce: naw-saw'
Origin: or nacah (Psalm 4 : 6 (7)) {naw-saw'}
his parable
mashal (Hebrew #4912)
properly, a pithy maxim, usually of metaphorical nature; hence, a simile (as an adage, poem, discourse)
KJV usage: byword, like, parable, proverb.
Pronounce: maw-shawl'
Origin: apparently from 4910 in some original sense of superiority in mental action
b, and said
'amar (Hebrew #559)
to say (used with great latitude)
KJV usage: answer, appoint, avouch, bid, boast self, call, certify, challenge, charge, + (at the, give) command(-ment), commune, consider, declare, demand, X desire, determine, X expressly, X indeed, X intend, name, X plainly, promise, publish, report, require, say, speak (against, of), X still, X suppose, talk, tell, term, X that is, X think, use (speech), utter, X verily, X yet.
Pronounce: aw-mar'
Origin: a primitive root
, Balak
Balaq (Hebrew #1111)
waster; Balak, a Moabitish king
KJV usage: Balak.
Pronounce: baw-lawk'
Origin: from 1110
the king
melek (Hebrew #4428)
a king
KJV usage: king, royal.
Pronounce: meh'-lek
Origin: from 4427
of Moab
Mow'ab (Hebrew #4124)
from (her (the mother's)) father; Moab, an incestuous son of Lot; also his territory and descendants
KJV usage: Moab.
Pronounce: mo-awb
Origin: from a prolonged form of the prepositional prefix m- and 1
hath brought
nachah (Hebrew #5148)
to guide; by implication, to transport (into exile, or as colonists)
KJV usage: bestow, bring, govern, guide, lead (forth), put, straiten.
Pronounce: naw-khaw'
Origin: a primitive root
me from Aram
'Aram (Hebrew #758)
the highland; Aram or Syria, and its inhabitants; also the name of the son of Shem, a grandson of Nahor, and of an Israelite
KJV usage: Aram, Mesopotamia, Syria, Syrians.
Pronounce: arawm'
Origin: from the same as 759
, out of the mountains
harar (Hebrew #2042)
a mountain
KJV usage: hill, mount(-ain).
Pronounce: haw-rawr'
Origin: from an unused root meaning to loom up
of the east
qedem (Hebrew #6924)
from 6923; the front, of place (absolutely, the fore part, relatively the East) or time (antiquity); often used adverbially (before, anciently, eastward)
KJV usage: aforetime, ancient (time), before, east (end, part, side, -ward), eternal, X ever(-lasting), forward, old, past. Compare 6926.
Pronounce: keh'-dem
Origin: or qedmah {kayd'-maw}
, saying, Come
yalak (Hebrew #3212)
to walk (literally or figuratively); causatively, to carry (in various senses)
KJV usage: X again, away, bear, bring, carry (away), come (away), depart, flow, + follow(-ing), get (away, hence, him), (cause to, made) go (away, -ing, -ne, one's way, out), grow, lead (forth), let down, march, prosper, + pursue, cause to run, spread, take away ((-journey)), vanish, (cause to) walk(-ing), wax, X be weak.
Pronounce: yaw-lak'
Origin: a primitive root (compare 1980)
, curse
'arar (Hebrew #779)
to execrate
KJV usage: X bitterly curse.
Pronounce: aw-rar'
Origin: a primitive root
d me Jacob
Ya`aqob (Hebrew #3290)
heel-catcher (i.e. supplanter); Jaakob, the Israelitish patriarch
KJV usage: Jacob.
Pronounce: yah-ak-obe'
Origin: from 6117
, and come
yalak (Hebrew #3212)
to walk (literally or figuratively); causatively, to carry (in various senses)
KJV usage: X again, away, bear, bring, carry (away), come (away), depart, flow, + follow(-ing), get (away, hence, him), (cause to, made) go (away, -ing, -ne, one's way, out), grow, lead (forth), let down, march, prosper, + pursue, cause to run, spread, take away ((-journey)), vanish, (cause to) walk(-ing), wax, X be weak.
Pronounce: yaw-lak'
Origin: a primitive root (compare 1980)
, defy
za`am (Hebrew #2194)
properly, to foam at the mouth, i.e. to be enraged
KJV usage: abhor, abominable, (be) angry, defy, (have) indignation.
Pronounce: zaw-am'
Origin: a primitive root
e Israel
Yisra'el (Hebrew #3478)
from 8280 and 410; he will rule as God; Jisrael, a symbolical name of Jacob; also (typically) of his posterity: --Israel.
Pronounce: yis-raw-ale'
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Num. 23:18• 18Then he took up his parable and said, Rise up, Balak, and hear! hearken unto me, son of Zippor! (Num. 23:18)
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Num. 24:3,15,23• 3And he took up his parable, and said, Balaam the son of Beor saith, and the man of opened eye saith,
 15And he took up his parable, and said, Balaam the son of Beor saith, and the man of opened eye saith,
 23And he took up his parable, and said, Alas! Who shall live when *God doeth this? (Num. 24:3,15,23)
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Job 27:1• 1And Job continued his parable and said, (Job 27:1)
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Job 29:1• 1And Job continued his parable and said, (Job 29:1)
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Psa. 78:2• 2I will open my mouth in a parable; I will utter riddles from of old, (Psa. 78:2)
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Ezek. 17:2• 2Son of man, put forth a riddle, and speak a parable unto the house of Israel, (Ezek. 17:2)
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Mic. 2:4• 4In that day shall they take up a proverb concerning you, and lament with a doleful lamentation, and say, We are utterly spoiled: he hath changed the portion of my people: how hath he removed it from me! He hath distributed our fields to the rebellious. (Mic. 2:4)
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Hab. 2:6• 6Shall not all these take up a proverb about him, and a taunting riddle against him, and say, Woe to him that increaseth that which is not his! how long?--and to him that loadeth himself with pledges! (Hab. 2:6)
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Matt. 13:33,35• 33He spoke another parable to them: The kingdom of the heavens is like leaven, which a woman took and hid in three measures of meal until it had been all leavened.
 35so that that should be fulfilled which was spoken through the prophet, saying, I will open my mouth in parables; I will utter things hidden from the world's foundation. (Matt. 13:33,35)
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Prov. 26:2• 2As the sparrow for flitting about, as the swallow for flying, so a curse undeserved shall not come. (Prov. 26:2)
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1 Sam. 17:10• 10And the Philistine said, I have defied the ranks of Israel this day; give me a man, that we may fight together. (1 Sam. 17:10)

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Aram,
Balak; Balac,
East,
Israel,
Jacob,
King,
Moab; Moabites,
Mountain Mount

Cross References

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he took.
Num. 23:18• 18Then he took up his parable and said, Rise up, Balak, and hear! hearken unto me, son of Zippor! (Num. 23:18)
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Num. 24:3,15,23• 3And he took up his parable, and said, Balaam the son of Beor saith, and the man of opened eye saith,
 15And he took up his parable, and said, Balaam the son of Beor saith, and the man of opened eye saith,
 23And he took up his parable, and said, Alas! Who shall live when *God doeth this? (Num. 24:3,15,23)
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Job 27:1• 1And Job continued his parable and said, (Job 27:1)
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Job 29:1• 1And Job continued his parable and said, (Job 29:1)
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Psa. 78:2• 2I will open my mouth in a parable; I will utter riddles from of old, (Psa. 78:2)
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Ezek. 17:2• 2Son of man, put forth a riddle, and speak a parable unto the house of Israel, (Ezek. 17:2)
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Ezek. 20:49• 49And I said, Ah, Lord Jehovah! they say of me, Doth he not speak parables? (Ezek. 20:49)
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Mic. 2:4• 4In that day shall they take up a proverb concerning you, and lament with a doleful lamentation, and say, We are utterly spoiled: he hath changed the portion of my people: how hath he removed it from me! He hath distributed our fields to the rebellious. (Mic. 2:4)
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Hab. 2:6• 6Shall not all these take up a proverb about him, and a taunting riddle against him, and say, Woe to him that increaseth that which is not his! how long?--and to him that loadeth himself with pledges! (Hab. 2:6)
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Matt. 13:33,35• 33He spoke another parable to them: The kingdom of the heavens is like leaven, which a woman took and hid in three measures of meal until it had been all leavened.
 35so that that should be fulfilled which was spoken through the prophet, saying, I will open my mouth in parables; I will utter things hidden from the world's foundation. (Matt. 13:33,35)
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Mark 12:12• 12And they sought to lay hold of him, and they feared the crowd; for they knew that he had spoken the parable of them. And they left him and went away. (Mark 12:12)
parable.The word {mashal,} which as a verb is to rule, have authority, and also to compare, as a noun signifies whatever is expressed in parabolic or figurative language.
All these oracular speeches of Balaam are in hemistich metre in the original. They are highly dignified and sublime; and may be considered as immediate poetic productions of the Spirit of God. (ch. 24:2.)Aram.
Num. 22:5• 5And he sent messengers to Balaam the son of Beor, to Pethor, which is on the river in the land of the children of his people, to call him, saying, Behold, a people is come out from Egypt; behold, they cover the face of the land, and they abide over against me. (Num. 22:5)
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Gen. 10:22• 22The sons of Shem: Elam, and Asshur, and Arphaxad, and Lud, and Aram. (Gen. 10:22)
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Gen. 28:2,7• 2Arise, go to Padan-Aram, to the house of Bethuel thy mother's father, and take a wife thence of the daughters of Laban thy mother's brother.
 7and that Jacob had obeyed his father and his mother, and was gone to Padan-Aram. (Gen. 28:2,7)
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Deut. 23:4• 4because they met you not with bread and with water on the way, when ye came forth out of Egypt, and because they hired against thee Balaam the son of Beor, of Pethor of Mesopotamia, to curse thee. (Deut. 23:4)
Come.
Num. 22:6,11,17• 6And now come, I pray thee, curse me this people; for they are mightier than I: perhaps I may be able to smite them, and drive them out of the land; for I know that he whom thou blessest is blessed, and he whom thou cursest is cursed.
 11Behold, a people is come out of Egypt, and it covers the face of the land. Now come, curse me them: perhaps I may be able to fight against them, and drive them out.
 17for very highly will I honour thee, and whatever thou shalt say to me will I do; come therefore, I pray thee, curse me this people. (Num. 22:6,11,17)
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Prov. 26:2• 2As the sparrow for flitting about, as the swallow for flying, so a curse undeserved shall not come. (Prov. 26:2)
defy Israel.
1 Sam. 17:10,25‑26,36,45• 10And the Philistine said, I have defied the ranks of Israel this day; give me a man, that we may fight together.
 25And the men of Israel said, Have ye seen this man that comes up? for to defy Israel is he come up: and it shall be, that the man who smites him, him will the king enrich with great riches, and will give him his daughter, and make his father's house free in Israel.
 26And David spoke to the men that stood by him, saying, What shall be done to the man that smites this Philistine, and takes away the reproach from Israel? for who is this uncircumcised Philistine, that he should defy the armies of the living God?
 36Thy servant smote both the lion and the bear; and this uncircumcised Philistine shall be as one of them, because he has defied the armies of the living God.
 45And David said to the Philistine, Thou comest to me with sword, and with spear, and with javelin; but I come to thee in the name of Jehovah of hosts, the God of the armies of Israel, whom thou hast defied. (1 Sam. 17:10,25‑26,36,45)
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2 Sam. 21:21• 21And he defied Israel; but Jonathan the son of Shimea David's brother smote him. (2 Sam. 21:21)
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2 Sam. 23:9• 9And after him, Eleazar the son of Dodo the son of an Ahohite: he was one of the three mighty men with David, when they had defied the Philistines that were there gathered together to battle, and the men of Israel were gone up. (2 Sam. 23:9)

J. N. Darby Translation

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And he took up his parablea, and said, Balak the king of Moab hath brought me from Aramb, from the mountains of the east: Come, curse me Jacob, and come, denounce Israel!

JND Translation Notes

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a
The same word is used for proverb.
b
Syria.