What Does Numbers 1:35 Mean in the King James?
Those that were numbered of them, even of the tribe of Manasseh, were thirty and two thousand and two hundred.
The analysis reads the King James wording.
King James Version The King James Version, first published in 1611. Selah Verse shows the standard text.
THE KEY
The Hebrew for “numbered” grows from a root of attending, mustering, and appointing, so 32,200 marks a gathered people with a place in the whole.
THE MEANING
Manasseh is named within Israel as a tribe with a specific count: 32,200. As you read, the community appears as a whole with identifiable parts, and the name Manasseh carries Joseph’s story of forgetting.
THE ROOT
פְּקֻדֵיהֶם
pequdehem
GROWS FROM
פקד
paqad
Attend to, muster, appoint, or count.
“numbered” in this verse is pequdehem. The counted total grows from a verb that can also describe attending to people, mustering them, and assigning them. The census presents a number as an organized body with a place in the community.
ALSO GROWS
paqad: Attend to; muster; appoint; number.
פָּקַד
These linked senses show that the count gathers people into a recognized body.
pequddah: Oversight, charge, or appointed responsibility.
פְּקֻדָּה
The same root can mark a person or group as part of an ordered responsibility.
paqīd: An appointed official or overseer.
פָּקִיד
This branch carries the root from counting a group to placing someone within an order.
מְנַשֶּׁה
Menashsheh
GROWS FROM
נשה
nashah
Forget, or cause to forget.
Manasseh carries Joseph’s phrase, “God hath made me forget” (Genesis 41:51). Here that name remains legible within a counted tribe: the census keeps a name marked by forgetting in the record of a people.
ALSO GROWS
nashani: He made me forget.
נַשַּׁנִי
Joseph uses this form when he explains the name Manasseh in Genesis 41:51.
neshiyyah: Forgetfulness.
נְשִׁיָּה
This noun appears in “the land of forgetfulness” (Psalm 88:12), letting the name’s root echo the contrast between forgetting and being held in a visible record.
THE PATTERN
A count makes a many-membered whole visible by locating its parts.
From twenty years old and upward, all that are able to go forth to war in Israel: thou and Aaron shall number them by their armies.He telleth the number of the stars; he calleth them all by their names.But even the very hairs of your head are all numbered. Fear not therefore: ye are of more value than many sparrows.THE THREAD
From twenty years old and upward, all that are able to go forth to war in Israel: thou and Aaron shall number them by their armies.Numbers 1:3 uses the same root, פקד (paqad, attend, muster, or number), when Moses and Aaron number Israel’s fighting-age men. The shared verb shows this total as the result of gathering people into an ordered whole.
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