What Does Numbers 33:19 Mean in the King James?

And they departed from Rithmah, and pitched at Rimmon-parez.

Numbers 33:19 · KJV

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 verse’s “departed” and “pitched” make a journey out of linked stages: leaving one camp is already part of arriving at the next.

THE MEANING

A path unfolds through both leaving and settling. A place can hold you for a real stretch without being the final place of your movement.

THE ROOT

וַיִּסְעוּ

vayyisʿu from nāsaʿ

GROWS FROM

נסע

n-s-ʿ

Set out, travel, depart.

English “departed” can sound like a simple leaving; ⁨נסע⁩ names setting out on a journey. Beside “pitched,” it shows the verse’s rhythm: a camp gives way to the next stage of travel.

ALSO GROWS

nāsaʿ: Set out, travel.

נָסַע

This is the verb’s root form, showing that “departed” marks the start of a journey stage.

massaʿ: Journey, stage of a journey.

מַסָּע

The itinerary’s stages belong to a sequence of journeys, so each departure connects one camp to the next.

THE PATTERN

The road advances through departure and encampment, each camp forming one stage in a continuing journey.

And they departed from Hazeroth, and pitched in Rithmah.

Numbers 33:18 · KJVThe same departure-and-encampment rhythm moves the route from one named stage to another.

And he removed from thence unto a mountain on the east of Beth-el, and pitched his tent, having Beth-el on the west, and Hai on the east: and there he builded an altar unto the LORD, and called upon the name of the LORD.

Genesis 12:8 · KJVA departure leads to a new place of dwelling, which becomes one moment along a larger journey.

By faith he sojourned in the land of promise, as in a strange country, dwelling in tabernacles with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise:

Hebrews 11:9 · KJVDwelling in tents holds arrival and onward movement together, making a place of rest part of a continuing journey.

THE THREAD

And they departed from Hazeroth, and pitched in Rithmah.

Numbers 33:18 · KJV

Numbers 33:18 uses the same verb ⁨וַיִּסְעוּ⁩ (vayyisʿu, from ⁨נסע⁩) for leaving Hazeroth and encamping at Rithmah. This verse then makes Rithmah the place departed from, so one stop becomes the hinge between two stages.

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