Numbers 9:22

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

Whether it were two days, or a month, or a year, that the cloud tarried upon the tabernacle, abiding thereon, the children of Israel remained encamped, and journeyed not; but when it was taken up, they journeyed.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

אֽוֹ־יֹמַ֜יִם אוֹ־חֹ֣דֶשׁ אוֹ־יָמִ֗ים בְּהַאֲרִ֨יךְ הֶעָנָ֤ן עַל־הַמִּשְׁכָּן֙ לִשְׁכֹּ֣ן עָלָ֔יו יַחֲנ֥וּ בְנֵֽי־יִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל וְלֹ֣א יִסָּ֑עוּ וּבְהֵעָלֹת֖וֹ יִסָּֽעוּ׃

Transliteration

Or yōmayim or ḥōḏeš or yāmîm in haʾărîḵ the ʿānān upon the miškān to lišəkōn upon it, yaḥănû bənê-Yiśrāʾēl and not yissāʿû and in hēʿālōṯô yissāʿû.

Grammar Details

*yōmayim*: common noun, masculine dual - two days
*ḥōḏeš*: common noun, masculine singular - month
*yāmîm*: common noun, masculine plural - days
*haʾărîḵ*: Hiphil infinitive construct - prolonging/lingering
*ʿānān*: common noun, masculine singular with definite article - the cloud
*miškān*: common noun, masculine singular with definite article - the tabernacle
*lišəkōn*: preposition + Qal infinitive construct - to remain/dwell
*yaḥănû*: Qal imperfect, 3rd masculine plural - they remained camped
*bənê-Yiśrāʾēl*: construct phrase - children of Israel
*yissāʿû*: Qal imperfect, 3rd masculine plural - they would set out
*hēʿālōṯô*: Niphal infinitive construct with 3rd masculine singular suffix - its being taken up

Word Meanings

*haʾărîḵ*: prolonging/remaining long/lingering/continuing
*lišəkōn*: to remain/to dwell/to stay/to abide
*hēʿālōṯô*: its being lifted up/its rising/its being taken up

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Referenced Verses

Exod 40:36-37 : 36 And when the cloud was taken up from over the tabernacle, the children of Israel went onward, throughout all their journeys: 37 but if the cloud was not taken up, then they journeyed not till the day that it was taken up.
Ps 32:8 : 8 I will instruct thee and teach thee in the way which thou shalt go: I will counsel thee with mine eye upon thee.
Ps 48:14 : 14 For this God is our God for ever and ever: He will be our guide [even] unto death.
Ps 73:24 : 24 Thou wilt guide me with thy counsel, And afterward receive me to glory.
Ps 77:20 : 20 Thou leddest thy people like a flock, By the hand of Moses and Aaron.
Ps 107:7 : 7 He led them also by a straight way, That they might go to a city of habitation.
Ps 143:10 : 10 Teach me to do thy will; For thou art my God: Thy Spirit is good; Lead me in the land of uprightness.
Prov 3:5-6 : 5 Trust in Jehovah with all thy heart, And lean not upon thine own understanding: 6 In all thy ways acknowledge him, And he will direct thy paths.
Acts 1:4 : 4 and, being assembled together with them, he charged them not to depart from Jerusalem, but to wait for the promise of the Father, which, [said he,] ye heard from me:
Num 1:54 : 54 Thus did the children of Israel; according to all that Jehovah commanded Moses, so did they.
Num 8:20 : 20 Thus did Moses, and Aaron, and all the congregation of the children of Israel, unto the Levites: according unto all that Jehovah commanded Moses touching the Levites, so did the children of Israel unto them.
Num 9:17 : 17 And whenever the cloud was taken up from over the Tent, then after that the children of Israel journeyed: and in the place where the cloud abode, there the children of Israel encamped.
Num 23:21-22 : 21 He hath not beheld iniquity in Jacob; Neither hath he seen perverseness in Israel: Jehovah his God is with him, And the shout of a king is among them. 22 God bringeth them forth out of Egypt; He hath as it were the strength of the wild-ox.
Deut 1:6-7 : 6 Jehovah our God spake unto us in Horeb, saying, Ye have dwelt long enough in this mountain: 7 turn you, and take your journey, and go to the hill-country of the Amorites, and unto all [the places] nigh thereunto, in the Arabah, in the hill-country, and in the lowland, and in the South, and by the sea-shore, the land of the Canaanites, and Lebanon, as far as the great river, the river Euphrates.
Deut 2:3-4 : 3 Ye have compassed this mountain long enough: turn you northward. 4 And command thou the people, saying, Ye are to pass through the border of your brethren the children of Esau, that dwell in Seir; and they will be afraid of you: take ye good heed unto yourselves therefore;
Exod 39:42 : 42 According to all that Jehovah commanded Moses, so the children of Israel did all the work.
Exod 40:16 : 16 Thus did Moses: according to all that Jehovah commanded him, so did he.

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