King James Version

Numbers 21:10

And the children of Israel set forward, and pitched in Oboth.

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וַיִּסְע֖וּvayisvand cause to blowנָסַעconjunction, verb, qal, sequential imperfect, 3rd person, masculine, plural — “and cause to blow”, the next action in the storyH5265properly, to pull up, especially the tent-pins, i.e. start on ajourneycause to blow, bring, get, (make to) go (away, forth, forward, onward, out), (take) journey, march, remove, set aside (forward), [idiom] still, be on his (go their) way.בְּנֵ֣יbenesonבֵּןnoun, common, masculine, plural, construct — “son”, the of-form, joined to the next wordH1121a son (as a builder of the family name), in the widest sense (of literal and figurative relationship, including grandson, subject, nation, quality or condition, etc., (like father or brother), etc.)[phrase] afflicted, age, (Ahoh-) (Ammon-) (Hachmon-) (Lev-) ite, (anoint-) ed one, appointed to, ([phrase]) arrow, (Assyr-) (Babylon-) (Egypt-) (Grec-) ian, one born, bough, branch, breed, [phrase] (young) bullock, [phrase] (young) calf, […יִשְׂרָאֵ֑לyisraelIsraelיִשְׂרָאֵלnoun, proper name — “Israel”H3478Jisrael, a symbolical name of Jacob; also (typically) of his posterityIsrael.וַֽיַּחֲנ֖וּvayachanvand encampחָנָהconjunction, verb, qal, sequential imperfect, 3rd person, masculine, plural — “and encamp”, the next action in the storyH2583properly, to incline; by implication, to decline (of the slanting rays of evening); specifically, to pitch atent; gen. to encamp (for abode or siege)abide (in tents), camp, dwell, encamp, grow to an end, lie, pitch (tent), rest in tent.בְּאֹבֹֽתbeovotin Obothאֹבֹתpreposition, noun, proper name — “in Oboth”H88Oboth, a place in the DesertOboth.

Jewish translation (JPS 1917)

And the children of Israel journeyed, and pitched in Oboth.

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American Standard Version (1901)

And the children of Israel journeyed, and encamped in Oboth.

Young’s Literal Translation

And the sons of Israel journey, and encamp in Oboth.

World English Bible

The children of Israel traveled, and encamped in Oboth.

Darby Translation

And the children of Israel journeyed, and encamped in Oboth.

Douay-Rheims

And the children of Israel setting forwards camped in Oboth.

Jewish Publication Society (1917)

And the children of Israel journeyed, and pitched in Oboth.

Brenton’s Septuagint (1851), English

And the children of Israel departed, and encamped in Oboth.

Septuagint (Brenton’s Greek, 1851)

Καὶ ἀπῇραν οἱ υἱοὶ Ἰσραὴλ, καὶ παρενέβαλον ἐν Ὠβώθ.