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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 whoredom with the daughters of Moab. (Num. 25:1)
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Josh. 2:1• 1And Joshua the son of Nun sent out of Shittim two men to spy secretly, saying, Go view the land, even Jericho. And they went, and came into an harlot's house, named Rahab, and lodged 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 Ashdoth-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 which are on his frontiers, the glory of the country, Beth-jeshimoth, Baal-meon, and Kiriathaim, (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 whoredom with the daughters of Moab.
 2And they called the people unto the sacrifices of their gods: and the people did eat, and bowed down to their gods.
 3And Israel joined himself unto Baal-peor: and the anger of the Lord was kindled against Israel.
 4And the Lord said unto Moses, Take all the heads of the people, and hang them up before the Lord against the sun, that the fierce anger of the Lord may be turned away from Israel.
 5And Moses said unto the judges of Israel, Slay ye every one his men that were joined unto Baal-peor.
 6And, behold, one of the children of Israel came and brought unto his brethren a Midianitish woman in the sight of Moses, and in the sight of all the congregation of the children of Israel, who were weeping before the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.
 7And when Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, saw it, he rose up from among the congregation, and took a javelin in his hand;
 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. (Num. 25:1‑9)
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Ex. 25:5,10,23• 5And rams' skins dyed red, and badgers' skins, and shittim wood,
 10And they shall make an ark of shittim wood: two cubits and a half shall be the length thereof, and a cubit and a half the breadth thereof, and a cubit and a half the height thereof.
 23Thou shalt also make a table of shittim wood: two cubits shall be 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 out of Shittim two men to spy secretly, saying, Go view the land, even Jericho. And they went, and came into an harlot's house, named Rahab, and lodged 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."