The Meaning of Numbers 35:7 Explained

Numbers 35:7

KJV: So all the cities which ye shall give to the Levites shall be forty and eight cities: them shall ye give with their suburbs.

YLT: all the cities which ye give to the Levites are forty and eight cities, them and their suburbs.

Darby: all the cities that ye shall give to the Levites shall be forty-eight cities, they and their suburbs.

ASV: All the cities which ye shall give to the Levites shall be forty and eight cities; them'shall ye give with their suburbs.

KJV Reverse Interlinear

[So] all the cities  which ye shall give  to the Levites  [shall be] forty  and eight  cities:  them [shall ye give] with their suburbs. 

What does Numbers 35:7 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 35:7 mean?

So all the cities [shall be] that you will give to the Levites forty and eight cities [you shall give] these and with their common-land
כָּל־ הֶעָרִ֗ים אֲשֶׁ֤ר תִּתְּנוּ֙ לַלְוִיִּ֔ם אַרְבָּעִ֥ים וּשְׁמֹנֶ֖ה עִ֑יר אֶתְהֶ֖ן וְאֶת־ מִגְרְשֵׁיהֶֽן

כָּל־  So  all 
Parse: Noun, masculine singular construct
Root: כֹּל  
Sense: all, the whole.
הֶעָרִ֗ים  the  cities  [shall  be] 
Parse: Article, Noun, feminine plural
Root: עִיר 
Sense: excitement, anguish.
אֲשֶׁ֤ר  that 
Parse: Pronoun, relative
Root: אֲשֶׁר 
Sense: (relative part.).
תִּתְּנוּ֙  you  will  give 
Parse: Verb, Qal, Imperfect, second person masculine plural
Root: יָתַן 
Sense: to give, put, set.
לַלְוִיִּ֔ם  to  the  Levites 
Parse: Preposition-l, Proper Noun, masculine plural
Root: לֵוִי  
Sense: the descendants of Levi, the 3rd son of Jacob by Leah.
אַרְבָּעִ֥ים  forty 
Parse: Number, common plural
Root: אַרְבָּעִים  
Sense: forty.
וּשְׁמֹנֶ֖ה  and  eight 
Parse: Conjunctive waw, Number, feminine singular
Root: שְׁמֹנֶה  
Sense: eight, eighth.
עִ֑יר  cities 
Parse: Noun, feminine singular
Root: עִיר 
Sense: excitement, anguish.
אֶתְהֶ֖ן  [you  shall  give]  these 
Parse: Direct object marker, third person feminine plural
Root: אֹות 
Sense: sign of the definite direct object, not translated in English but generally preceding and indicating the accusative.
מִגְרְשֵׁיהֶֽן  with  their  common-land 
Parse: Noun, masculine plural construct, third person feminine plural
Root: מִגְרָשׁ 
Sense: common, common land, open land, suburb.

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