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Numbers 26:5 KJV
Numbers · chapter 26 · verse 5
Reuben, the eldest son of Israel: the children of Reuben; Hanoch, of whom cometh the family of the Hanochites: of Pallu, the family of the Palluites:Numbers 26:5 · King James Version
Numbers 26:5 in context
3And Moses and Eleazar the priest spake with them in the plains of Moab by Jordan near Jericho, saying,
4Take the sum of the people, from twenty years old and upward; as the LORD commanded Moses and the children of Israel, which went forth out of the land of Egypt.
5Reuben, the eldest son of Israel: the children of Reuben; Hanoch, of whom cometh the family of the Hanochites: of Pallu, the family of the Palluites:
6Of Hezron, the family of the Hezronites: of Carmi, the family of the Carmites.
7These are the families of the Reubenites: and they that were numbered of them were forty and three thousand and seven hundred and thirty.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- HanochitesChănôkîya Chanokite or descendants of ChanokH2599 →
- childrenbêna son , in the widest sense , etc.)H1121 →
- ReubenRᵉʼûwbênReuben, a son of JacobH7205 →
- eldestbᵉkôwrfirstbornH1060 →
- IsraelYisrâʼêlJisrael, a symbolical name of JacobH3478 →
- HanochChănôwkChanok, an antediluvian patriachH2585 →
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This is the register of the tribes as they were now enrolled, in the same order that they were numbered in ch. 1. Observe, I. The account that is here kept of the families of each tribe, which must not be understood of such as we call families, those that live in a house together, but such as were the descendants of…
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 5-51