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Num. 24:5 KJV (With Strong’s)

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How goodly
towb (Hebrew #2895)
a primitive root, to be (transitively, do or make) good (or well) in the widest sense
KJV usage: be (do) better, cheer, be (do, seem) good, (make) goodly, X please, (be, do, go, play) well.
Pronounce: tobe
are thy tents
'ohel (Hebrew #168)
a tent (as clearly conspicuous from a distance)
KJV usage: covering, (dwelling)(place), home, tabernacle, tent.
Pronounce: o'-hel
Origin: from 166
, O 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 thy tabernacles
mishkan (Hebrew #4908)
a residence (including a shepherd's hut, the lair of animals, figuratively, the grave; also the Temple); specifically, the Tabernacle (properly, its wooden walls)
KJV usage: dwelleth, dwelling (place), habitation, tabernacle, tent.
Pronounce: mish-kawn'
Origin: from 7931
, O 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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Cross References

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Ministry on This Verse

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Num. 24:5• 5How goodly are thy tents, O Jacob, and thy tabernacles, O Israel! (Num. 24:5)
• Israel abiding in their tents. There the Spirit sees them, and declares the beauty and the order of the people in the eyes of God. (“Numbers 22-25” by J.N. Darby)
• {v.5-8} God had brought them out of Egypt, they were the work of God, and the power of God was to go with them against their enemies. We get here, thirdly, then, {v.6} beauty, {v.7} a freshness the sources of which do not dry up, {v.8} and power (what the Spirit does for the assembly). (“Numbers 22-25” by J.N. Darby)

J. N. Darby Translation

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How goodly are thy tents, Jacob, and thy tabernacles, Israel!