Passage Research
Numbers 33 — Sermon Preparation
The forty-year journey is summarized as a list of camping places from Rameses to the plains of Moab, and Israel is commanded to drive out the Canaanites. Below is a research summary for Numbers 33, drawn from openly licensed scholarly databases — original-language morphology, classic sermons from the church fathers through the Puritans, and ancient geography data.
- 56
- verses
- 464 / 163
- Hebrew words / lemmas
- 7
- classic sermon excerpts
- 3
- preachers & commentators
Numbers 33 in the Hebrew
Distinctive vocabulary of this chapter, based on original-language morphology.
| Hebrew | Transliteration | Strong's | Count | Glosses |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| חָנָה | chânâh | H2583 | 42 | incline, decline |
| נָסַע | nâçaʻ | H5265 | 42 | pull, start |
| 14 | ||||
| מִדְבָּר | midbâr | H4057 | 8 | pasture, desert |
| הַר | har | H2022 | 8 | mountain, range |
| הֹר | Hôr | H2023 | 4 | Hor |
| אֵתָם | ʼÊthâm | H864 | 3 | Etham |
How preachers through history handled this text
7 public-domain excerpts on Numbers 33, from the church fathers to the Puritans.
“In this chapter we have, I. A particular account of the removals and encampments of the children of Israel, from their escape out of Egypt to their entrance into Canaan, forty-two in all, with some remarkable events that happened at some of those places, ver. 1-49. II. A strict command given them to drive out all the inhabitants of the land of Canaan, which they were not going to conquer and take possession of, ver. 50-56. …”
— Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible, Vol. 1 (Genesis to Deuteronomy), on Numbers 33:1–56 (Public Domain)
Places in the text
Based on ancient-geography data
- Egypt— Num 33:1
- Elim— Num 33:10
- Red Sea 3— Num 33:10
- Sin— Num 33:11
- Dophkah— Num 33:12
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