Numbers 25:9

Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

But those who died in the plague numbered twenty-four thousand.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וַיִּהְי֕וּ הַמֵּתִ֖ים בַּמַּגֵּפָ֑ה אַרְבָּעָ֥ה וְעֶשְׂרִ֖ים אָֽלֶף׃

Transliteration

wə-yihyû the-mēṯîm in-the-maggēp̄āh ʾarbāʿāh wə-ʿeśrîm ʾālep̄

Grammar Details

• *wə-yihyû*: conjunction + Qal imperfect 3rd masculine plural - and were
• *mēṯîm*: Qal participle masculine plural with definite article - the dead ones
• *maggēp̄āh*: common noun, feminine singular with definite article and preposition - in the plague
• *ʾarbāʿāh*: numeral, feminine - four
• *wə-ʿeśrîm*: conjunction + numeral - and twenty
• *ʾālep̄*: common noun, masculine singular - thousand

Word Meanings

• *mēṯîm*: dead ones/those who died
• *maggēp̄āh*: plague/pestilence/slaughter
• *ʾarbāʿāh wə-ʿeśrîm ʾālep̄*: twenty-four thousand

Other Translations

• King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

  And those that died in the plague were twenty and four thousand.

• KJV1611 – Modern English

  And those who died in the plague were twenty-four thousand.

• King James Version 1611 (Original)

  And those that died in the plague were twenty and four thousand.

• American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

  And those that died by the plague were twenty and four thousand.

• King James Version with Strong's Numbers

  And those that died in the plague were twenty and four thousand.

• Tyndale Bible (1526/1534)

  And there dyed in the plage. xxiiij. thousande.

• Coverdale Bible (1535)

  and there were slayne in the plage foure and twentye thousande.

• Geneva Bible (1560)

  And there died in that plague, foure and twentie thousand.

• Bishops' Bible (1568)

  And there dyed in the plague twentie and foure thousande.

• Authorized King James Version (1611)

  And those that died in the plague were twenty and four thousand.

• Webster's Bible (1833)

  Those who died by the plague were twenty-four thousand.

• Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

  and the dead by the plague are four and twenty thousand.

• American Standard Version (1901)

  And those that died by the plague were twenty and four thousand.

• American Standard Version (1901)

  And those that died by the plague were twenty and four thousand.

• Bible in Basic English (1941)

  But twenty-four thousand of them had come to their death by the disease.

• World English Bible (2000)

  Those who died by the plague were twenty-four thousand.

• NET Bible® (New English Translation)

  Those that died in the plague were 24,000.

Referenced Verses

• 1 Cor 10:8 : 8 We must not commit sexual immorality, as some of them did, and in one day twenty-three thousand of them fell.
• Num 14:37 : 37 those men who spread the bad report about the land were struck down by a plague before the LORD.
• Num 25:4-5 : 4 The LORD said to Moses, 'Take all the leaders of the people and execute them in broad daylight before the LORD, so that the LORD's fierce anger may turn away from Israel.' 5 So Moses said to the judges of Israel, 'Each of you must kill those of your men who have joined themselves to Baal of Peor.'
• Num 31:16 : 16 Behold, these women caused the people of Israel to act unfaithfully against the LORD through the advice of Balaam in the matter of Peor, which led to the plague among the congregation of the LORD.
• Deut 4:3-4 : 3 Your eyes have seen what the LORD did at Baal Peor; for every man who followed Baal Peor, the LORD your God destroyed him from among you. 4 But all of you who held fast to the LORD your God are alive today.