📜 INTERLINEAR BIBLE STUDY

Numbers 21:18
🇮🇱 BIBLICAL HEBREW

📖 King James Version

The princes digged the well, the nobles of the people digged it, by the direction of the lawgiver, with their staves. And from the wilderness they went to Mattanah:

🔤 Interlinear Analysis — Hebrew (BDB)

# Hebrew Transliteration Strong's Morphology Translation Definition
1 בְּאֵ֞ר בְּאֵר H875 HNcfsa בְּאֵר from בָּאַר; a pit; especially a well: pit, well.
2 חֲפָר֣וּ/הָ חָפַר H2658 HVqp3cp/Sp3fs חָפַר a primitive root; properly, to pry into; by implication, to delve, to explore: dig, paw, search out, seek.
3 שָׂרִ֗ים שָׂר H8269 HNcmpa שָׂר from שָׂרַר; a head person (of any rank or class): captain (that had rule), chief (captain), general, governor, keeper, lord, ((-task-))master, prince(-ipal), ruler, steward.
4 כָּר֨וּ/הָ֙ כָּרָה H3738 HVqp3cp/Sp3fs כָּרָה a primitive root; properly, to dig; figuratively, to plot; generally, to bore or open: dig, X make (a banquet), open.
5 נְדִיבֵ֣י נָדִיב H5081 HAampc נָדִיב from נָדַב; properly, voluntary, i.e. generous; hence, magnanimous; as noun, a grandee (sometimes a tyrant): free, liberal (things), noble, prince, willing ((hearted)).
6 הָ/עָ֔ם עָם H5971 HTd/Ncmsa עָם from עָמַם; a people (as a congregated unit); specifically, a tribe (as those of Israel); hence (collectively) troops or attendants; figuratively, a flock: folk, men, nation, people.
7 בִּ/מְחֹקֵ֖ק חָקַק H2710 HR/Vmrmsa חָקַק a primitive root; properly, to hack, i.e. engrave (Judges 5:14, to be a scribe simply); by implication, to enact (laws being cut in stone or metal tablets in primitive times) or (gen.) prescribe: appoint, decree, governor, grave, lawgiver, note, pourtray, print, set.
8 בְּ/מִשְׁעֲנֹתָ֑/ם מַשְׁעֵנָה H4938 HR/Ncfpc/Sp3mp מַשְׁעֵנָה or mishteneth; feminine of מַשְׁעֵן; support (abstractly), i.e. (figuratively) sustenance or (concretely) a walking-stick: staff.
9 וּ/מִ/מִּדְבָּ֖ר מִדְבָּר H4057 HC/R/Ncmsa מִדְבָּר from דָּבַר in the sense of driving; a pasture (i.e. open field, whither cattle are driven); by implication, a desert; also speech (including its organs): desert, south, speech, wilderness.
10 מַתָּנָֽה מַתָּנָה H4980 HNp מַתָּנָה the same as מַתָּנָה; Mattanah, a place in the Desert: Mattanah.