Numbers 23:17
King James Version
7 Jun 2026
“And when he came to him, behold, he stood by his burnt offering, and the princes of Moab with him. And Balak said unto him, What hath the Lord spoken?”
מָה
properly, 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 senses
יְהֹוָה
Yahweh
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יְהֹוָה
LORD. Yahweh. The covenant name of God. I AM WHO I AM. The self-existent eternal One who was is and always will be.
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דָבַר
has he spoken
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דָבַר
perhaps properly, to arrange; but used figuratively (of words), to speak; rarely (in a destructive sense) to subdue
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עֹלָה
burnt offering/ his
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עֹלָה
a step or (collectively, stairs, as ascending); usually a holocaust (as going up in smoke)
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מוֹאָב
Moab
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מוֹאָב
Moab, an incestuous son of Lot; also his territory and descendants
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נָצַב
was standing
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נָצַב
to station, in various applications (literally or figuratively)
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בָּלָק
Balak
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בָּלָק
Balak, a Moabitish king
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