King James Version

Numbers 25:9

And those that died in the plague were twenty and four thousand.

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וַיִּהְי֕וּvayihyvand beהָיָהconjunction, verb, qal, sequential imperfect, 3rd person, masculine, plural — “and be”, the next action in the storyH1961to exist, i.e. be or become, come to pass (always emphatic, and not a mere copula or auxiliary)beacon, [idiom] altogether, be(-come), accomplished, committed, like), break, cause, come (to pass), do, faint, fall, [phrase] follow, happen, [idiom] have, last, pertain, quit (one-) self, require, [idiom] use.הַמֵּתִ֖יםhametimthe dieמוּתdefinite article, verb, qal, participle, absolute — “the die”, a verb used as a describing wordH4191to die (literally or figuratively); causatively, to kill[idiom] at all, [idiom] crying, (be) dead (body, man, one), (put to, worthy of) death, destroy(-er), (cause to, be like to, must) die, kill, necro(-mancer), [idiom] must needs, slay, [idiom] surely, [idiom] very suddenly, [idiom] in (no) w…בַּמַּגֵּפָ֑הbamagefahin plagueמַגֵּפָהpreposition, with the article, noun, common, feminine, singular, absolute — “in plague”, the ordinary formH4046a pestilence; by analogy, defeat([idiom] be) plague(-d), slaughter, stroke.אַרְבָּעָ֥הarbaahfourאַרְבַּעadjective, cardinal, masculine, singular, absolute — “four”, the ordinary formH702fourfour.וְעֶשְׂרִ֖יםveesrimand twentyעֶשְׂרִיםconjunction, adjective, cardinal, both genders, plural, absolute — “and twenty”, the ordinary formH6242twenty; also (ordinal) twentieth(six-) score, twenty(-ieth).אָֽלֶףalefthousandאֶלֶףadjective, cardinal, both genders, singular, absolute — “thousand”, the ordinary formH505hence (the ox's head being the first letter of the alphabet, and this eventually used as a numeral) a thousandthousand.

Jewish translation (JPS 1917)

And those that died by the plague were twenty and four thousand.

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American Standard Version (1901)

And those that died by the plague were twenty and four thousand.

Young’s Literal Translation

and the dead by the plague are four and twenty thousand.

World English Bible

Those who died by the plague were twenty-four thousand.

Darby Translation

And those that died in the plague were twenty-four thousand.

Douay-Rheims

And there were slain four and twenty thousand men.

Jewish Publication Society (1917)

And those that died by the plague were twenty and four thousand.

Brenton’s Septuagint (1851), English

And those that died in the plague were four and twenty thousand.

Septuagint (Brenton’s Greek, 1851)

Καὶ ἐγένοντο οἱ τεθνηκότες ἐν τῇ πληγῇ, τέσσαρες καὶ εἴκοσι χιλιάδες.

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Young’s Literal Translation

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Jewish Publication Society (1917)

Brenton’s Septuagint (1851), English

Septuagint (Brenton’s Greek, 1851)

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