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Numbers 31

Nm. 31:32 KJV (With Strong’s)

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And the booty
malqowach (Hebrew #4455)
transitively (in dual) the jaws (as taking food); intransitively, spoil (and captives) (as taken)
KJV usage: booty, jaws, prey.
Pronounce: mal-ko'-akh
Origin: from 3947
, being the rest
yether (Hebrew #3499)
properly, an overhanging, i.e. (by implication) an excess, superiority, remainder; also a small rope (as hanging free)
KJV usage: + abundant, cord, exceeding, excellancy(-ent), what they leave, that hath left, plentifully, remnant, residue, rest, string, with.
Pronounce: yeh'-ther
Origin: from 3498
of the prey
baz (Hebrew #957)
plunder
KJV usage: booty, prey, spoil(-ed).
Pronounce: baz
Origin: from 962
which the men of
`am (Hebrew #5971)
a people (as a congregated unit); specifically, a tribe (as those of Israel); hence (collectively) troops or attendants; figuratively, a flock
KJV usage: folk, men, nation, people.
Pronounce: am
Origin: from 6004
war
tsaba' (Hebrew #6635)
from 6633; a mass of persons (or figuratively, things), especially reg. organized for war (an army); by implication, a campaign, literally or figuratively (specifically, hardship, worship)
KJV usage: appointed time, (+) army, (+) battle, company, host, service, soldiers, waiting upon, war(-fare).
Pronounce: tsaw-baw'
Origin: or (feminine) tsbadah {tseb-aw-aw'}
had caught
bazaz (Hebrew #962)
to plunder
KJV usage: catch, gather, (take) for a prey, rob(-ber), spoil, take (away, spoil), X utterly.
Pronounce: baw-zaz'
Origin: a primitive root
, was six
shesh (Hebrew #8337)
a primitive number; six (as an overplus (see 7797) beyond five or the fingers of the hand); as ord. sixth
KJV usage: six((-teen, -teenth)), sixth.
Pronounce: shaysh
Origin: masculine shishshah {shish-shaw'}
hundred
me'ah (Hebrew #3967)
properly, a primitive numeral; a hundred; also as a multiplicative and a fraction
KJV usage: hundred((-fold), -th), + sixscore.
Pronounce: may-aw'
Origin: or metyah {may-yaw'}
thousand
'eleph (Hebrew #505)
hence (the ox's head being the first letter of the alphabet, and this eventually used as a numeral) a thousand
KJV usage: thousand.
Pronounce: eh'-lef
Origin: prop, the same as 504
and seventy
shib`iym. (Hebrew #7657)
seventy
KJV usage: seventy, threescore and ten (+ -teen).
Pronounce: shib-eem'
Origin: multiple of 7651
thousand
'eleph (Hebrew #505)
hence (the ox's head being the first letter of the alphabet, and this eventually used as a numeral) a thousand
KJV usage: thousand.
Pronounce: eh'-lef
Origin: prop, the same as 504
and five
chamesh (Hebrew #2568)
a primitive numeral; five
KJV usage: fif(-teen), fifth, five (X apiece).
Pronounce: khaw-maysh'
Origin: masculine chamishshah {kham-ish-shaw}
thousand
'eleph (Hebrew #505)
hence (the ox's head being the first letter of the alphabet, and this eventually used as a numeral) a thousand
KJV usage: thousand.
Pronounce: eh'-lef
Origin: prop, the same as 504
sheep
tso'n (Hebrew #6629)
from an unused root meaning to migrate; a collective name for a flock (of sheep or goats); also figuratively (of men)
KJV usage: (small) cattle, flock (+ -s), lamb (+ -s), sheep((-cote, -fold, -shearer, -herds)).
Pronounce: tsone
Origin: or tsaown (Psalm 144:13) {tseh-one'}
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the booty.It appears from the enumeration here, that the Israelites, in this war with the Midianites, took 32,000 female prisoners, 61,000 asses, 72,000 beeves, and 675,000 sheep and small cattle; besides the immense number of males who fell in battle, and the women and children who were slain by the divine command.
(ver. 17.)
This booty was divided into equal parts, by which partition a far larger share was justly given to the warriors employed on the expedition, who were only 12,000, than to those, who being equally willing to go, were ordered to stay in the camp.
Each party was to give a certain proportion to Jehovah, as their sovereign, in grateful acknowledgement that to him they owed their success.
The soldiers to give to the Lord one out of every five hundred persons, beeves, asses, and sheep, (ver. 28,) and the people, who by staying at home risked nothing, and had no fatigue, were to give one out of fifty of each of the above to the Levites, who were far more numerous than the priests.
(ver. 30.)
The booty, its division among the soldiers and people, and the proportion given by each to the Lord and to the Levites, will be seen at one view by the following table:--Sheep . . . . 675,000 To soldiers . . . 337,500 To God. . . . . .
675 To people . . . . 337,500 To Levites. . . .
6,750Beeves. . . .
72,000 To soldiers . . .
36,000 To God. . . . . .
72 To people . . . .
36,000 To Levites. . . .
720Asses . . . .
61,000 To soldiers . . .
30,500 To God. . . . . .
61 To people . . . .
30,500 To Levites. . . .
610Persons . . .
32,000 To soldiers . . . 16,000 To God. . . . . .
32 To people . . . . 16,000 To Levites. . . .
320It does not appear that a single ox, sheep, or ass, was required by Moses as his portion; or that there was any given to him by the people; and though he had a family as well as others, yet no provision was made for them above the common lot of Levites!

J. N. Darby Translation

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And the prey, the rest of the spoil, which the men of war had taken, was six hundred and seventy-five thousand sheepb,

JND Translation Notes

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Strictly, "small cattle," sheep and goats.