1 Chronicles 23:24
Old Testament • 20 words with Strong's data
"These were the sons of Levi after the house of their fathers; even the chief of the fathers, as they were counted by number of names by their polls, that did the work for the service of the house of the LORD, from the age of twenty years and upward."
Word-by-Word Analysis
בֵּן
bên
a son (as a builder of the family name), in the widest sense (of literal and figurative relationship, including grandson, subject, nation, quality or ...
אַחַר
ʼachar
properly, the hind part; generally used as an adverb or conjunction, after (in various senses)
בַּיִת
bayith
a house (in the greatest variation of applications, especially family, etc.)
אָב
ʼâb
father, in a literal and immediate, or figurative and remote application
רֹאשׁ
rôʼsh
the head (as most easily shaken), whether literal or figurative (in many applications, of place, time, rank, itc.)
אָב
ʼâb
father, in a literal and immediate, or figurative and remote application
חָשַׁב
châshab
properly, to plait or interpenetrate, i.e. (literally) to weave or (generally) to fabricate; figuratively, to plot or contrive (usually in a malicious...
מִסְפָּר
miçpâr
a number, definite (arithmetical) or indefinite (large, innumerable; small, a few); also (abstractly) narration
שֵׁם
shêm
an appellation, as amark or memorial of individuality; by implication honor, authority, character
מַעֲשֶׂה
maʻăseh
an action (good or bad); generally, a transaction; abstractly, activity; by implication, a product (specifically, a poem) or (generally) property
בַּיִת
bayith
a house (in the greatest variation of applications, especially family, etc.)
יְהֹוָה
Yᵉhôvâh
Jehovah, Jewish national name of God
חֶלֶד
cheled
life (as a fleeting portion of time); hence, the world (as transient)
עֶשְׂרִים
ʻesrîym
twenty; also (ordinal) twentieth
שָׁנֶה
shâneh
a year (as a revolution of time)
מַעַל
maʻal
properly, the upper part, used only adverbially with prefix upward, above, overhead, from the top, etc.
Key Terms in This Verse
חָשַׁב châshab
properly, to plait or interpenetrate, i.e. (literally) to weave or (generally) to fabricate; figuratively, to plot or contrive (usually in a malicious sense); hence (from the mental effort) to think, ...
Study H2803 →חֶלֶד cheled
life (as a fleeting portion of time); hence, the world (as transient)
Study H2465 →מַעַל maʻal
properly, the upper part, used only adverbially with prefix upward, above, overhead, from the top, etc.
Study H4605 →שֵׁם shêm
an appellation, as amark or memorial of individuality; by implication honor, authority, character
Study H8034 →מִסְפָּר miçpâr
a number, definite (arithmetical) or indefinite (large, innumerable; small, a few); also (abstractly) narration
Study H4557 →רֹאשׁ rôʼsh
the head (as most easily shaken), whether literal or figurative (in many applications, of place, time, rank, itc.)
Study H7218 →Cross References
Now the Levites were numbered from the age of thirty years and upward: and their number by their polls, man by man, was thirty and eight thousand.
And the Kohathites set forward, bearing the sanctuary: and the other did set up the tabernacle against they came.
And the tabernacle was taken down; and the sons of Gershon and the sons of Merari set forward, bearing the tabernacle.
From thirty years old and upward even until fifty years old, all that enter into the host, to do the work in the tabernacle of the congregation.
This is it that belongeth unto the Levites: from twenty and five years old and upward they shall go in to wait upon the service of the tabernacle of the congregation:
Now in the second year of their coming unto the house of God at Jerusalem, in the second month, began Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and Jeshua the son of Jozadak, and the remnant of their brethren ...
For by the last words of David the Levites were numbered from twenty years old and above:
And they assembled all the congregation together on the first day of the second month, and they declared their pedigrees after their families, by the house of their fathers, according to the number of...
Thou shalt even take five shekels apiece by the poll, after the shekel of the sanctuary shalt thou take them: (the shekel is twenty gerahs:)
Of the children of Simeon, by their generations, after their families, by the house of their fathers, those that were numbered of them, according to the number of the names, by their polls, every male...
Number the children of Levi after the house of their fathers, by their families: every male from a month old and upward shalt thou number them.
These are those which were numbered of the children of Israel by the house of their fathers: all those that were numbered of the camps throughout their hosts were six hundred thousand and three thousa...
And the sons of Merari by their families; Mahli, and Mushi. These are the families of the Levites according to the house of their fathers.
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