Numbers 24:5
Numbers 24:19
Jacob <03290> [Of Jacob.]
destroy <06> [shall destroy.]
Numbers 23:23
spell <05173> [no enchantment.]
Jacob ........ Israel .......... Jacob .... Israel <03290 03478> [against. or, in. according.]
God <0410> [What hath.]
Numbers 23:7
Then ... uttered <05375> [he took.]
oracle <04912> [parable.]
The word {mashal,} which as a verb is to rule, have authority, and also to compare, as a noun signifies whatever is expressed in parabolic or figurative language. All these oracular speeches of Balaam are in hemistich metre in the original. They are highly dignified and sublime; and may be considered as immediate poetic productions of the Spirit of God. (ch. 24:2.)
Aram <0758> [Aram.]
<03212> [Come.]
denounce Israel <02194 03478> [defy Israel.]
Numbers 23:10
count <04487> [can count.]
dust <06083> [the dust. i.e.,]
The posterity of Jacob, which was to be so numerous as to resemble the dust.
fourth part <07255> [the fourth.]
die <04191> [me. Heb. my soul, or, my life. the death.]
Numbers 23:21
looked on <05027> [hath not.]
Lord <03068> [the Lord.]
acclamation <08643> [the shout.]
Numbers 24:17
see ....... behold <07200 07789> [I shall see him.]
The Targum of Onkelos translates this passage in the following manner: "I shall see him, but not now; I shall behold him, but he is not near. When a king shall arise from the house of Jacob, and the Messiah be anointed from the house of Israel; he shall slay the princes of Moab, and rule over all the children of men." The marginal references will direct the reader to the fulfilment of these remarkable prophecies.
star <03556> [a Star.]
scepter <07626> [a Sceptre.]
crush ... skulls ... Moab <06285 04124 04272> [smite the corners of Moab. or, smite through the princes of]
Moab.
Moab <04124> [Moab.]
sons <01121> [all the children.]
[Seth.]
Numbers 32:11
twenty <06242> [from twenty.]
wholeheartedly <04390> [because.]
followed ... wholeheartedly <0310 04390> [wholly followed me. Heb. fulfilled after me.]
