Numbers 22:15

Balak again sent princes, ¹  more numerous and more distinguished than the first. ² 

biblegateway Num 22:15

Then Balak sent other princes, more numerous and more distinguished than the first.

biblegateway Num 22:15

Then Balak again sent leaders, more numerous and more distinguished than the former.

biblegateway Num 22:15

Then Balak tried again. This time he sent a larger number of even more distinguished officials than those he had sent the first time.

biblegateway Num 22:15

Balak sent another group of nobles, higher ranking and more distinguished.

SABDAweb Num 22:15

So Balak sent more chiefs, greater in number and of higher position than the others.

bibleoremus Num 22:15

Once again Balak sent officials, more numerous and more distinguished than these.

biblegateway Num 22:15

Then Balak again sent princes, more numerous and more honorable than they.

biblegateway Num 22:15

Balak again sent princes, ¹  more numerous and more distinguished than the first. ² 

¹ tn The construction is a verbal hendiadys. It uses the Hiphil preterite of the verb “to add” followed by the Qal infinitive “to send.” The infinitive becomes the main verb, and the preterite an adverb: “he added to send” means “he sent again.”

² tn Heb “than these.”