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Num. 1:21 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Those that were numbered
paqad (Hebrew #6485)
to visit (with friendly or hostile intent); by analogy, to oversee, muster, charge, care for, miss, deposit, etc.
KJV usage: appoint, X at all, avenge, bestow, (appoint to have the, give a) charge, commit, count, deliver to keep, be empty, enjoin, go see, hurt, do judgment, lack, lay up, look, make, X by any means, miss, number, officer, (make) overseer, have (the) oversight, punish, reckon, (call to) remember(-brance), set (over), sum, X surely, visit, want.
Pronounce: paw-kad'
Origin: a primitive root
of them, even of the tribe
matteh (Hebrew #4294)
from 5186; a branch (as extending); figuratively, a tribe; also a rod, whether for chastising (figuratively, correction), ruling (a sceptre), throwing (a lance), or walking (a staff; figuratively, a support of life, e.g. bread)
KJV usage: rod, staff, tribe.
Pronounce: mat-teh'
Origin: or (feminine) mattah {mat-taw'}
of Reuben
R'uwben (Hebrew #7205)
see ye a son; Reuben, a son of Jacob
KJV usage: Reuben.
Pronounce: reh-oo-bane'
Origin: from the imperative of 7200 and 1121
, were forty
'arba`iym (Hebrew #705)
forty
KJV usage: -forty.
Pronounce: ar-baw-eem'
Origin: multiple of 702
and six
shesh (Hebrew #8337)
a primitive number; six (as an overplus (see 7797) beyond five or the fingers of the hand); as ord. sixth
KJV usage: six((-teen, -teenth)), sixth.
Pronounce: shaysh
Origin: masculine shishshah {shish-shaw'}
thousand
'eleph (Hebrew #505)
hence (the ox's head being the first letter of the alphabet, and this eventually used as a numeral) a thousand
KJV usage: thousand.
Pronounce: eh'-lef
Origin: prop, the same as 504
and five
chamesh (Hebrew #2568)
a primitive numeral; five
KJV usage: fif(-teen), fifth, five (X apiece).
Pronounce: khaw-maysh'
Origin: masculine chamishshah {kham-ish-shaw}
hundred
me'ah (Hebrew #3967)
properly, a primitive numeral; a hundred; also as a multiplicative and a fraction
KJV usage: hundred((-fold), -th), + sixscore.
Pronounce: may-aw'
Origin: or metyah {may-yaw'}
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Reuben,
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Cross References

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That a comparative view may be easily taken of the state of the tribes, we will here produce them, compared with that of the second census, (ch. 26,) in their decreasing proportion, beginning with the greatest and proceeding to the least.1st Census
2nd Census1.
Judah,
74,600
76,500 2.
Dan,
62,700
64,400 3.
Simeon,
59,300
22,200 4.
Zebulun,
57,400
60,500 5.
Issachar,
54,400
64,300 6.
Naphtali,
53,400
45,400 7.
Reuben,
46,500
43,730 8.
Gad,
45,650
40,500 9.
Asher,
41,500
53,400 10.
Ephraim,
40,500
32,500 11.
Benjamin,
35,400
45,600 12.
Manasseh,
32,200
52,700 _______
_______ Totals:
603,550
601,730 -------
-------Thus we find Judah the most populous tribe, and Manasseh the least so; the difference between them being as great as 42,000.
Jacob had given Judah the pre-eminence in his prophetic blessing; and that tribe was to have the precedency in the encampments of Israel:
accordingly God had increased them more than any of their brethren.
Ephraim and Manasseh, according to the same prophecy, were numbered as distinct tribes, Ephraim having the superiority, as it was foretold; and Joseph indeed appears "a fruitful bough."
Num. 2:10‑11• 10On the south side shall be the standard of the camp of Reuben according to their armies: and the captain of the children of Reuben shall be Elizur the son of Shedeur.
 11And his host, and those that were numbered thereof, were forty and six thousand and five hundred. (Num. 2:10‑11)
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Num. 26:7• 7These are the families of the Reubenites: and they that were numbered of them were forty and three thousand and seven hundred and thirty. (Num. 26:7)

J. N. Darby Translation

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those that were numbered of them, of the tribe of Reuben, were forty-six thousand five hundred.