Numbers 25:9
Old Testament • 5 words with Strong's data
"And those that died in the plague were twenty and four thousand."
Word-by-Word Analysis
מוּת
mûwth
to die (literally or figuratively); causatively, to kill
נֶגַע
negaʻ
a blow (figuratively, infliction); also (by implication) a spot (concretely, a leprous person or dress)
עֶשְׂרִים
ʻesrîym
twenty; also (ordinal) twentieth
אֶלֶף
ʼeleph
hence (the ox's head being the first letter of the alphabet, and this eventually used as a numeral) a thousand
Key Terms in This Verse
נֶגַע negaʻ
a blow (figuratively, infliction); also (by implication) a spot (concretely, a leprous person or dress)
Study H5061 →אֶלֶף ʼeleph
hence (the ox's head being the first letter of the alphabet, and this eventually used as a numeral) a thousand
Study H505 →Cross References
Neither let us commit fornication, as some of them committed, and fell in one day three and twenty thousand.
Behold, these caused the children of Israel, through the counsel of Balaam, to commit trespass against the LORD in the matter of Peor, and there was a plague among the congregation of the LORD.
Even those men that did bring up the evil report upon the land, died by the plague before the LORD.
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