The Meaning of Numbers 35:11 Explained

Numbers 35:11

KJV: Then ye shall appoint you cities to be cities of refuge for you; that the slayer may flee thither, which killeth any person at unawares.

YLT: and have prepared to yourselves cities -- cities of refuge they are to you -- then fled thither hath a man-slayer, smiting a person unawares,

Darby: then ye shall appoint for yourselves cities: cities of refuge shall they be for you; that a manslayer may flee thither, who without intent smiteth a person mortally.

ASV: then ye shall appoint you cities to be cities of refuge for you, that the manslayer that killeth any person unwittingly may flee thither.

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CONTEXT: What is the Context of Numbers 35:11?

MEANING: What does Numbers 35:11 Mean?

WORDS: What do the individual words in Numbers 35:11 mean?

RELATIONS: What do the major concepts mean in Numbers 35:11?

KJV Reverse Interlinear

Then ye shall appoint  you cities  to be cities  of refuge  for you; that the slayer  may flee  thither, which killeth  any person  at unawares. 

What does Numbers 35:11 Mean?

Context Summary

Numbers 35:1-15 - The Cities Of Refuge For The Manslayer
This chapter is full of provision for the Levites, the chosen ministers of God's house. They who serve there may be at rest about their maintenance. He is not unrighteous to forget their labor of love.
These forty-eight cities must have been centers of religious influence throughout the land. As cities set on a hill that could not be hid, as salt staying corruption, as lights along a rock-bound coast-so must they have stood in the Holy Land. So should our homes be in our land.
Six of the Levite cities were set apart for those who were guilty of manslaughter-i.e., those who had killed some one unwittingly. They were within easy access from all parts of the land, and offered sanctuary until a judicial inquiry could be held. In Jesus we find refuge, Hebrews 6:18. No avenger following the track of past sin can hurt the soul that shelters in Him. Only we must never venture beyond the precincts of His salvation. [source]

Chapter Summary: Numbers 35

1  Forty-eight cities for the Levites, with their suburbs, and measure thereof
6  Six of them are to be cities of refuge
9  The laws of murder and manslaughter
31  No satisfaction for murder

What do the individual words in Numbers 35:11 mean?

then shall appoint you cities cities of refuge to be for you that may flee there the manslayer who kills any person accidentally
וְהִקְרִיתֶ֤ם לָכֶם֙ עָרִ֔ים עָרֵ֥י מִקְלָ֖ט תִּהְיֶ֣ינָה לָכֶ֑ם וְנָ֥ס שָׁ֙מָּה֙ רֹצֵ֔חַ מַכֵּה־ נֶ֖פֶשׁ בִּשְׁגָגָֽה

וְהִקְרִיתֶ֤ם  then  shall  appoint 
Parse: Conjunctive waw, Verb, Hifil, Conjunctive perfect, second person masculine plural
Root: קָרָה 
Sense: to encounter, meet, befall, happen, come to meet.
עָרִ֔ים  cities 
Parse: Noun, feminine plural
Root: עִיר 
Sense: excitement, anguish.
עָרֵ֥י  cities 
Parse: Noun, feminine plural construct
Root: עִיר 
Sense: excitement, anguish.
מִקְלָ֖ט  of  refuge 
Parse: Noun, masculine singular
Root: מִקְלָט  
Sense: refuge, asylum.
תִּהְיֶ֣ינָה  to  be 
Parse: Verb, Qal, Imperfect, third person feminine plural
Root: אֶהְיֶה 
Sense: to be, become, come to pass, exist, happen, fall out.
לָכֶ֑ם  for  you 
Parse: Preposition, second person masculine plural
וְנָ֥ס  that  may  flee 
Parse: Conjunctive waw, Verb, Qal, Conjunctive perfect, third person masculine singular
Root: נוּס  
Sense: to flee, escape.
רֹצֵ֔חַ  the  manslayer 
Parse: Verb, Qal, Participle, masculine singular
Root: רָצַח  
Sense: to murder, slay, kill.
מַכֵּה־  who  kills 
Parse: Verb, Hifil, Participle, masculine singular construct
Root: נָכָה  
Sense: to strike, smite, hit, beat, slay, kill.
נֶ֖פֶשׁ  any  person 
Parse: Noun, feminine singular
Root: נֶפֶשׁ  
Sense: soul, self, life, creature, person, appetite, mind, living being, desire, emotion, passion.
בִּשְׁגָגָֽה  accidentally 
Parse: Preposition-b, Noun, feminine singular
Root: שְׁגָגָה  
Sense: sin, sin of error or inadvertence, inadvertent sin.

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