Passage Research
Numbers 36 — Sermon Preparation
Tribal leaders raise the concern that land inherited by women might transfer to another tribe through marriage; God rules that heiresses must marry within their own tribe. Below is a research summary for Numbers 36, drawn from openly licensed scholarly databases — original-language morphology, classic sermons from the church fathers through the Puritans, and ancient geography data.
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- verses
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- Hebrew words / lemmas
- 6
- classic sermon excerpts
- 3
- preachers & commentators
Numbers 36 in the Hebrew
Distinctive vocabulary of this chapter, based on original-language morphology.
| Hebrew | Transliteration | Strong's | Count | Glosses |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| נַחֲלָה | nachălâh | H5159 | 17 | inherited, occupancy |
| מַטֶּה | maṭṭeh | H4294 | 14 | branch, extending |
| אָב | ʼâb | H1 | 9 | father |
| מִשְׁפָּחָה | mishpâchâh | H4940 | 6 | family, circle of relatives |
| צְלׇפְחָד | Tsᵉlophchâd | H6765 | 4 | Tselophchad |
| צָוָה | tsâvâh | H6680 | 6 | constitute, enjoin |
| אִשָּׁה | ʼishshâh | H802 | 6 | woman |
How preachers through history handled this text
6 public-domain excerpts on Numbers 36, from the church fathers to the Puritans.
“We have in this chapter the determination of another question that arose upon the case of the daughters of Zelophehad. God had appointed that they should inherit, ch. xxvii. 7. Now here, I. An inconvenience is suggested, in case they should marry into any other tribe, ver. 1-4. II. It is prevented by a divine appointment that they should marry in their own tribe and family (ver. 5-7), and this is settled for a rule in like cases (ver. 8, 9); and they did marry accordingly to some of their own relations (ver. …”
— Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible, Vol. 1 (Genesis to Deuteronomy), on Numbers 36:1–30 (Public Domain)
Places in the text
Based on ancient-geography data
- Jericho 1— Num 36:13
- Jordan— Num 36:13
- Moab 2— Num 36:13
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