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Numbers 33

Num. 33:49 KJV (With Strong’s)

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And they pitched
chanah (Hebrew #2583)
properly, to incline; by implication, to decline (of the slanting rays of evening); specifically, to pitch a tent; gen. to encamp (for abode or siege)
KJV usage: abide (in tents), camp, dwell, encamp, grow to an end, lie, pitch (tent), rest in tent.
Pronounce: khaw-naw'
Origin: a primitive root (compare 2603)
by Jordan
Yarden (Hebrew #3383)
a descender; Jarden, the principal river of Palestine
KJV usage: Jordan.
Pronounce: yar-dane'
Origin: from 3381
, from Beth-jesimoth
Beyth (Hebrew #1020)
house of the deserts; Beth-ha- Jeshimoth, a town East of the Jordan
KJV usage: Beth-jeshimoth.
Pronounce: ha-Yshiy-mowth
Origin: from 1004 and the plural of 3451 with the article interposed
even unto δAbel-shittim
'Abel (Hebrew #63)
meadow of the acacias; Abel hash- Shittim, a place in Palestine
KJV usage: Abel-shittim.
Pronounce: hash-Shittiym Abel-shittim
Origin: from 58 and the plural of 7848, with the article inserted
inx the plains
`arabah (Hebrew #6160)
a desert; especially (with the article prefix) the (generally) sterile valley of the Jordan and its continuation to the Red Sea
KJV usage: Arabah, champaign, desert, evening, heaven, plain, wilderness. See also 1026.
Pronounce: ar-aw-baw'
Origin: from 6150 (in the sense of sterility)
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
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or, the plaine of Shittim.
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Num. 25:1• 1And Israel abode in Shittim; and the people began to commit fornication with the daughters of Moab. (Num. 25:1)
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Josh. 2:1• 1And Joshua the son of Nun sent from Shittim two spies secretly, saying, Go, see the land, even Jericho. And they went, and came into a harlot's house, named Rahab, and they lay down there. (Josh. 2:1)

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Abel-shittim,
Jordan,
Moab; Moabites,
Plain,
River

Cross References

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Beth-jesimoth.Probably the place called Bethsimath by Eusebius, east of Jordan, and about ten miles south of Jericho.
Josh. 13:20• 20and Beth-Peor, and the slopes of Pisgah, and Beth-jeshimoth; (Josh. 13:20)
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Ezek. 25:9• 9therefore behold, I will open the side of Moab from the cities, from his cities even to the last of them, the glory of the country, Beth-jeshimoth, Baal-meon, and Kirjathaim, (Ezek. 25:9)
Abel-shittim.
or, the plains of Shittim.This place, according to Josephus, (Ant. 1. iv. c. 7, § 1. Bell.
1. v. c. 3,) who calls it Abela, was 60 furlongs east of Jordan.
Num. 25:1‑9• 1And Israel abode in Shittim; and the people began to commit fornication with the daughters of Moab.
 2And they invited the people to the sacrifices of their gods; and the people ate, and bowed down to their gods.
 3And Israel joined himself to Baal-Peor; and the anger of Jehovah was kindled against Israel.
 4And Jehovah said to Moses, Take all the heads of the people, and hang them up to Jehovah before the sun, that the fierce anger of Jehovah may be turned away from Israel.
 5And Moses said to the judges of Israel, Slay every one his men that have joined themselves to Baal-Peor.
 6And behold, a man of the children of Israel came and brought a Midianitish woman to his brethren, in the sight of Moses, and in the sight of the whole assembly of the children of Israel, who were weeping before the entrance of the tent of meeting.
 7And Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, saw it, and rose up from among the assembly, and took a javelin in his hand,
 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. (Num. 25:1‑9)
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Ex. 25:5,10,23• 5and rams' skins dyed red, and badgers' skins; and acacia-wood;
 10And they shall make an ark of acacia-wood; two cubits and a half the length thereof, and a cubit and a half the breadth thereof, and a cubit and a half the height thereof.
 23And thou shalt make a table of acacia-wood, two cubits the length thereof, and a cubit the breadth thereof, and a cubit and a half the height thereof. (Ex. 25:5,10,23)
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Josh. 2:1• 1And Joshua the son of Nun sent from Shittim two spies secretly, saying, Go, see the land, even Jericho. And they went, and came into a harlot's house, named Rahab, and they lay down there. (Josh. 2:1)

J. N. Darby Translation

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And they encamped by the Jordan, from Beth-jeshimoth unto Abel-Shittimd, in the plains of Moab.

JND Translation Notes

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Or "plain of acacias."