4:2 “Take a census 1 of the Kohathites from among the Levites, by their families and by their clans,
1 tnHeb “lift up the head.” The form נָשֹׂא (naso’) is the Qal infinitive absolute functioning here as a pure verb form. This serves to emphasize the basic verbal root idea (see GKC 346 §113.bb).