King James Version

Numbers 24:5

How goodly are thy tents, O Jacob, and thy tabernacles, O Israel!

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מַהmahhowמָהparticle, interrogative — “how”H4100properly, interrogative what? (including how? why? when?); but also exclamation, what! (including how!), or indefinitely what (including whatever, and even relatively, that which); often used with prefixes in various adverbial or conjunctive senseshow (long, oft, (-soever)), (no-) thing, what (end, good, purpose, thing), whereby(-fore, -in, -to, -with), (for) why.טֹּ֥בוּtovvbe betterטוֹבverb, qal, perfect, 3rd person, common, plural — “be better”, a completed actionH2895to be (transitively, do or make) good (or well) in the widest sensebe (do) better, cheer, be (do, seem) good, (make) goodly, [idiom] please, (be, do, go, play) well.אֹהָלֶ֖יךָohaleykhatentאֹהֶלnoun, common, masculine, plural, construct, suffix, pronominal, 2nd person, masculine, singular — “tent”, the of-form, joined to the next wordH168a tent (as clearly conspicuous from a distance)covering, (dwelling) (place), home, tabernacle, tent.יַעֲקֹ֑בyaaqovJacobיַעֲקֹבnoun, proper name — “Jacob”H3290Jaakob, the Israelitish patriarchJacob.מִשְׁכְּנֹתֶ֖יךָmishkenoteykhatabernacleמִשְׁכָּןnoun, common, masculine, plural, construct, suffix, pronominal, 2nd person, masculine, singular — “tabernacle”, the of-form, joined to the next wordH4908a residence (including a shepherd's hut, the lair of animals, figuratively, the grave; also the Temple); specifically, the Tabernacle (properly, its wooden walls)dwelleth, dwelling (place), habitation, tabernacle, tent.יִשְׂרָאֵֽלyisraelIsraelיִשְׂרָאֵלnoun, proper name — “Israel”H3478Jisrael, a symbolical name of Jacob; also (typically) of his posterityIsrael.

Jewish translation (JPS 1917)

How goodly are thy tents, O Jacob, thy dwellings, O Israel!

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American Standard Version (1901)

How goodly are thy tents, O Jacob, Thy tabernacles, O Israel!

Young’s Literal Translation

How good have been thy tents, O Jacob, Thy tabernacles, O Israel;

World English Bible

How goodly are your tents, Jacob, and your dwellings, Israel!

Darby Translation

How goodly are thy tents, Jacob, and thy tabernacles, Israel!

Douay-Rheims

How beautiful are thy tabernacles, O Jacob, and thy tents, O Israel!

Jewish Publication Society (1917)

How goodly are thy tents, O Jacob, thy dwellings, O Israel!

Brenton’s Septuagint (1851), English

How goodly are thy habitations, Jacob, and thy tents, Israel!

Septuagint (Brenton’s Greek, 1851)

Ὡς καλοὶ οἱ οἶκοί σου Ἰακὼβ, αἱ σκηναί σου Ἰσραήλ·