Passage Research
Numbers 14 — Sermon Preparation
Below is a research summary for Numbers 14, drawn from openly licensed scholarly databases — original-language morphology, classic sermons from the church fathers through the Puritans, and ancient geography data.
- 45
- verses
- 635 / 199
- Hebrew words / lemmas
- 15
- classic sermon excerpts
- 5
- preachers & commentators
Numbers 14 in the Hebrew
Distinctive vocabulary of this chapter, based on original-language morphology.
| Hebrew | Transliteration | Strong's | Count | Glosses |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| מִדְבָּר | midbâr | H4057 | 9 | pasture, desert |
| עֵדָה | ʻêdâh | H5712 | 8 | assemblage, concourse |
| מֹשֶׁה | Môsheh | H4872 | 9 | Mosheh |
| עַם | ʻam | H5971 | 10 | people, tribe |
| תּוּר | tûwr | H8446 | 5 | meander, guide |
| לוּן | lûwn | H3885 | 5 | stop, stay permanently |
| נָשָׂא | nâsâʼ | H5375 | 6 | lift |
How preachers through history handled this text
15 public-domain excerpts on Numbers 14, from the church fathers to the Puritans.
“The Lord granted the prayer of Moses so far as not at once to destroy the congregation. But disbelief of the promise forbids the benefit. Those who despise the pleasant land shall be shut out of it. The promise of God should be fulfilled to their children. They wished to die in the wilderness; God made their sin their ruin, took them at their word, and their carcases fell in the wilderness. They were made to groan under the burden of their own sin, which was too heavy for them to bear. …”
— Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible (Concise), on Numbers 14:20–35 (Public Domain)
Places in the text
Based on ancient-geography data
- Egypt — Num 14:13
- Way of the Red Sea — Num 14:25
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