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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 this man, because he continueth ever, hath an unchangeable priesthood.
 25Wherefore he is able also to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by him, seeing he ever liveth to make intercession for them. (Heb. 7:24‑25)
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1 Chron. 21:26‑27• 26And David built there an altar unto the Lord, and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings, and called upon the Lord; and he answered him from heaven by fire upon the altar of burnt offering.
 27And the Lord commanded the angel; and he put up his sword again into the sheath thereof. (1 Chron. 21:26‑27)
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Psa. 106:30• 30Then stood up Phinehas, and executed judgment: and so 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 every man his censer, and put fire in them, and laid incense thereon, and stood in the door of the tabernacle of the congregation with Moses and Aaron.
 35And there came out a fire from the Lord, and consumed the two hundred and fifty men that offered incense. (Num. 16:18,35)
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Num. 25:8‑11• 8And he went after the man of Israel into the tent, and thrust both of them through, the man of Israel, and the woman through her belly. So the plague was stayed from the children of Israel.
 9And those that died in the plague were twenty and four thousand.
 10And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,
 11Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, hath turned my wrath away from the children of Israel, while he was zealous for my sake among them, 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 when the angel stretched out his hand upon Jerusalem to destroy it, the Lord repented him of the evil, and said to the angel that destroyed the people, It is enough: stay now thine hand. And the angel of the Lord was by the threshingplace of Araunah the Jebusite.
 17And David spake unto the Lord when he saw the angel that smote the people, and said, Lo, I have sinned, and I have done wickedly: but these sheep, what have they done? let thine hand, I pray thee, be against me, and against my father's house.
 25And David built there an altar unto the Lord, and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings. So the Lord was entreated for 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 unto the Lord, and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings, and called upon the Lord; and he answered him from heaven by fire upon the altar of burnt offering.
 27And the Lord commanded the angel; and he put up his sword again into the sheath thereof. (1 Chron. 21:26‑27)
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1 Thess. 1:10• 10And to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead, even Jesus, which delivered us from the wrath to come. (1 Thess. 1:10)
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1 Tim. 2:5‑6• 5For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus;
 6Who gave himself a ransom for all, to be testified in due time. (1 Tim. 2:5‑6)
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Heb. 7:24‑25• 24But this man, because he continueth ever, hath an unchangeable priesthood.
 25Wherefore he is able also to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by him, seeing he ever liveth to make intercession for them. (Heb. 7:24‑25)
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James 5:16• 16Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much. (James 5:16)
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John 5:14• 14Afterward Jesus findeth him in the temple, and said unto him, Behold, thou art made whole: sin no more, lest a worse thing come unto 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.