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Numbers 16

Num. 16:48 KJV (With Strong’s)

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And he stood
`amad (Hebrew #5975)
to stand, in various relations (literal and figurative, intransitive and transitive)
KJV usage: abide (behind), appoint, arise, cease, confirm, continue, dwell, be employed, endure, establish, leave, make, ordain, be (over), place, (be) present (self), raise up, remain, repair, + serve, set (forth, over, -tle, up), (make to, make to be at a, with-)stand (by, fast, firm, still, up), (be at a) stay (up), tarry.
Pronounce: aw-mad'
Origin: a primitive root
betweenb the dead
muwth (Hebrew #4191)
causatively, to kill
KJV usage: X at all, X crying, (be) dead (body, man, one), (put to, worthy of) death, destroy(-er), (cause to, be like to, must) die, kill, necro(-mancer), X must needs, slay, X surely, X very suddenly, X in (no) wise.
Pronounce: mooth
Origin: a primitive root: to die (literally or figuratively)
and the living
chay (Hebrew #2416)
alive; hence, raw (flesh); fresh (plant, water, year), strong; also (as noun, especially in the feminine singular and masculine plural) life (or living thing), whether literally or figuratively
KJV usage: + age, alive, appetite, (wild) beast, company, congregation, life(-time), live(-ly), living (creature, thing), maintenance, + merry, multitude, + (be) old, quick, raw, running, springing, troop.
Pronounce: khah'-ee
Origin: from 2421
; and the plague
maggephah (Hebrew #4046)
a pestilence; by analogy, defeat
KJV usage: (X be) plague(-d), slaughter, stroke.
Pronounce: mag-gay-faw'
Origin: from 5062
wasc stayed
`atsar (Hebrew #6113)
to inclose; by analogy, to hold back; also to maintain, rule, assemble
KJV usage: X be able, close up, detain, fast, keep (self close, still), prevail, recover, refrain, X reign, restrain, retain, shut (up), slack, stay, stop, withhold (self).
Pronounce: aw-tsar'
Origin: a primitive root
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Heb. 7:24‑25• 24but he, because of his continuing for ever, has the priesthood unchangeable.
 25Whence also he is able to save completely those who approach by him to God, always living to intercede for them. (Heb. 7:24‑25)
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1 Chron. 21:26‑27• 26And David built there an altar to Jehovah, and offered up burnt-offerings and peace-offerings, and called upon Jehovah; and he answered him from the heavens by fire upon the altar of burnt-offering.
 27And Jehovah spoke to the angel; and he put up his sword again into its sheath. (1 Chron. 21:26‑27)
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Psa. 106:30• 30Then stood up Phinehas and executed judgment, and the plague was stayed; (Psa. 106:30)

Cross References

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What the plague was we know not; but it seems from this to have begun at one part of the camp, and to have proceeded regularly onward.
Num. 16:18,35• 18And they took each his censer, and put fire on them, and laid incense thereon, and stood before the entrance to the tent of meeting, as well as Moses and Aaron.
 35And there came out a fire from Jehovah, and consumed the two hundred and fifty men that had presented incense. (Num. 16:18,35)
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Num. 25:8‑11• 8and he went after the man of Israel into the tent-chamber, and thrust both of them through, the man of Israel and the woman through her belly. And the plague was stayed from the children of Israel.
 9And those that died in the plague were twenty-four thousand.
 10And Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying,
 11Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, hath turned my wrath away from the children of Israel, in that he was jealous with my jealousy among them, so that I consumed not the children of Israel in my jealousy. (Num. 25:8‑11)
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2 Sam. 24:16‑17,25• 16And the angel stretched out his hand upon Jerusalem to destroy it; but Jehovah repented him of the evil, and said to the angel that destroyed among the people, It is enough: withdraw now thine hand. And the angel of Jehovah was by the threshing-floor of Araunah the Jebusite.
 17And David spoke to Jehovah when he saw the angel that smote among the people, and said, Behold, it is I that have sinned, and it is I that have committed iniquity; but these sheep, what have they done? let thy hand, I pray thee, be on me, and on my father's house!
 25And David built there an altar to Jehovah, and offered up burnt-offerings and peace-offerings. And Jehovah was propitious to the land, and the plague was stayed from Israel. (2 Sam. 24:16‑17,25)
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1 Chron. 21:26‑27• 26And David built there an altar to Jehovah, and offered up burnt-offerings and peace-offerings, and called upon Jehovah; and he answered him from the heavens by fire upon the altar of burnt-offering.
 27And Jehovah spoke to the angel; and he put up his sword again into its sheath. (1 Chron. 21:26‑27)
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1 Thess. 1:10• 10and to await his Son from the heavens, whom he raised from among the dead, Jesus, our deliverer from the coming wrath. (1 Thess. 1:10)
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1 Tim. 2:5‑6• 5For God is one, and the mediator of God and men one, the man Christ Jesus,
 6who gave himself a ransom for all, the testimony to be rendered in its own times; (1 Tim. 2:5‑6)
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Heb. 7:24‑25• 24but he, because of his continuing for ever, has the priesthood unchangeable.
 25Whence also he is able to save completely those who approach by him to God, always living to intercede for them. (Heb. 7:24‑25)
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James 5:16• 16Confess therefore your offences to one another, and pray for one another, that ye may be healed. The fervent supplication of the righteous man has much power. (James 5:16)
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John 5:14• 14After these things Jesus finds him in the temple, and said to him, Behold, thou art become well: sin no more, that something worse do not happen to thee. (John 5:14)

J. N. Darby Translation

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And he stood between the dead and the living; and the plague was stayed.