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Numbers 20

Num. 20:1 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Thend came
bow' (Hebrew #935)
to go or come (in a wide variety of applications)
KJV usage: abide, apply, attain, X be, befall, + besiege, bring (forth, in, into, to pass), call, carry, X certainly, (cause, let, thing for) to come (against, in, out, upon, to pass), depart, X doubtless again, + eat, + employ, (cause to) enter (in, into, -tering, -trance, -try), be fallen, fetch, + follow, get, give, go (down, in, to war), grant, + have, X indeed, (in-)vade, lead, lift (up), mention, pull in, put, resort, run (down), send, set, X (well) stricken (in age), X surely, take (in), way.
Pronounce: bo
Origin: a primitive root
the children
ben (Hebrew #1121)
a son (as a builder of the family name), in the widest sense (of literal and figurative relationship, including grandson, subject, nation, quality or condition, etc., (like 1, 251, etc.))
KJV usage: + afflicted, age, (Ahoh-) (Ammon-) (Hachmon-) (Lev-)ite, (anoint-)ed one, appointed to, (+) arrow, (Assyr-) (Babylon-) (Egypt-) (Grec-)ian, one born, bough, branch, breed, + (young) bullock, + (young) calf, X came up in, child, colt, X common, X corn, daughter, X of first, + firstborn, foal, + very fruitful, + postage, X in, + kid, + lamb, (+) man, meet, + mighty, + nephew, old, (+) people, + rebel, + robber, X servant born, X soldier, son, + spark, + steward, + stranger, X surely, them of, + tumultuous one, + valiant(-est), whelp, worthy, young (one), youth.
Pronounce: bane
Origin: from {SI 11129}1129{/SI}
of Israel
Yisra'el (Hebrew #3478)
from 8280 and 410; he will rule as God; Jisrael, a symbolical name of Jacob; also (typically) of his posterity: --Israel.
Pronounce: yis-raw-ale'
, even the whole congregation
`edah (Hebrew #5712)
a stated assemblage (specifically, a concourse, or generally, a family or crowd)
KJV usage: assembly, company, congregation, multitude, people, swarm. Compare 5713.
Pronounce: ay-daw'
Origin: feminine of 5707 in the original sense of fixture
, into the desert
midbar (Hebrew #4057)
a pasture (i.e. open field, whither cattle are driven); by implication, a desert; also speech (including its organs)
KJV usage: desert, south, speech, wilderness.
Pronounce: mid-bawr'
Origin: from 1696 in the sense of driving
of Zin
Tsin (Hebrew #6790)
a crag; Tsin, a part of the Desert
KJV usage: Zin.
Pronounce: tseen
Origin: from an unused root meaning to prick
in the first
ri'shown (Hebrew #7223)
from 7221; first, in place, time or rank (as adjective or noun)
KJV usage: ancestor, (that were) before(-time), beginning, eldest, first, fore(-father) (-most), former (thing), of old time, past.
Pronounce: ree-shone'
Origin: or riishon {ree-shone'}
month
chodesh (Hebrew #2320)
the new moon; by implication, a month
KJV usage: month(-ly), new moon.
Pronounce: kho'-desh
Origin: from 2318
: and the people
`am (Hebrew #5971)
a people (as a congregated unit); specifically, a tribe (as those of Israel); hence (collectively) troops or attendants; figuratively, a flock
KJV usage: folk, men, nation, people.
Pronounce: am
Origin: from 6004
abode
yashab (Hebrew #3427)
properly, to sit down (specifically as judge. in ambush, in quiet); by implication, to dwell, to remain; causatively, to settle, to marry
KJV usage: (make to) abide(-ing), continue, (cause to, make to) dwell(-ing), ease self, endure, establish, X fail, habitation, haunt, (make to) inhabit(-ant), make to keep (house), lurking, X marry(-ing), (bring again to) place, remain, return, seat, set(- tle), (down-)sit(-down, still, -ting down, -ting (place) -uate), take, tarry.
Pronounce: yaw-shab'
Origin: a primitive root
in Kadesh
Qadesh (Hebrew #6946)
sanctuary; Kadesh, a place in the Desert
KJV usage: Kadesh. Compare 6947.
Pronounce: kaw-dashe'
Origin: the same as 6945
; ande Miriam
Miryam (Hebrew #4813)
rebelliously; Mirjam, the name of two Israelitesses
KJV usage: Miriam.
Pronounce: meer-yawm'
Origin: from 4805
died
muwth (Hebrew #4191)
causatively, to kill
KJV usage: X at all, X crying, (be) dead (body, man, one), (put to, worthy of) death, destroy(-er), (cause to, be like to, must) die, kill, necro(-mancer), X must needs, slay, X surely, X very suddenly, X in (no) wise.
Pronounce: mooth
Origin: a primitive root: to die (literally or figuratively)
there, and was buried
qabar (Hebrew #6912)
to inter
KJV usage: X in any wise, bury(-ier).
Pronounce: kaw-bar'
Origin: a primitive root
there.
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Num. 33:36• 36And they removed from Ezion-gaber, and pitched in the wilderness of Zin, which is Kadesh. (Num. 33:36)
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Ex. 15:20• 20And Miriam the prophetess, the sister of Aaron, took a timbrel in her hand; and all the women went out after her with timbrels and with dances. (Ex. 15:20)

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Congregation,
Desert,
Israel,
Miriam,
Months

Cross References

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1:  The children of Israel come to Zin, where Miriam dies.
2-6:  They murmur for want of water.
7-13:  Moses smiting the rock, brings forth water at Meribah.
14-21:  Moses at Kadesh desires passage through Edom, which is denied him.
22-29:  At mount Hor Aaron resigns his place to Eleazar, and dies.
An. Ex. Is. 40.
Then.This was the first month of the fortieth year after the departure from Egypt.
(Compare ch. 33:38, with ver. 28 of this chap. and De 1:3.)
This year was the last of their journeyings, for from the going out of the spies (ch. 13) unto this time, was about thirty-eight years.
Deut. 1:22‑23• 22And ye came near unto me every one of you, and said, We will send men before us, and they shall search us out the land, and bring us word again by what way we must go up, and into what cities we shall come.
 23And the saying pleased me well: and I took twelve men of you, one of a tribe: (Deut. 1:22‑23)
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Deut. 2:14• 14And the space in which we came from Kadesh-barnea, until we were come over the brook Zered, was thirty and eight years; until all the generation of the men of war were wasted out from among the host, as the Lord sware unto them. (Deut. 2:14)
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Num. 13:21• 21So they went up, and searched the land from the wilderness of Zin unto Rehob, as men come to Hamath. (Num. 13:21)
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Num. 27:14• 14For ye rebelled against my commandment in the desert of Zin, in the strife of the congregation, to sanctify me at the water before their eyes: that is the water of Meribah in Kadesh in the wilderness of Zin. (Num. 27:14)
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Num. 33:36• 36And they removed from Ezion-gaber, and pitched in the wilderness of Zin, which is Kadesh. (Num. 33:36)
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Deut. 32:51• 51Because ye trespassed against me among the children of Israel at the waters of Meribah-Kadesh, in the wilderness of Zin; because ye sanctified me not in the midst of the children of Israel. (Deut. 32:51)
Kadesh.This Kadesh in the wilderness of Zin, is different from Kadesh-barnea, lying in, or adjoining to the wilderness of Paran, about eight leagues south of Hebron.
(See ch. 34:3, 4. Jos 15:1, 3.)
Kadesh is called Rekam, by the Targumists, Rekem, in the Syriac, and Rakim, in Arabic.
Rekem, says Rabbi Nissin, (in Gittin, ch. 1.) is on the east, meaning of the land of Israel.
Num. 20:16• 16And when we cried unto the Lord, he heard our voice, and sent an angel, and hath brought us forth out of Egypt: and, behold, we are in Kadesh, a city in the uttermost of thy border: (Num. 20:16)
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Psa. 29:8• 8The voice of the Lord shaketh the wilderness; the Lord shaketh the wilderness of Kadesh. (Psa. 29:8)
Miriam.
Num. 12:1,10,15• 1And Miriam and Aaron spake against Moses because of the Ethiopian woman whom he had married: for he had married an Ethiopian woman.
 10And the cloud departed from off the tabernacle; and, behold, Miriam became leprous, white as snow: and Aaron looked upon Miriam, and, behold, she was leprous.
 15And Miriam was shut out from the camp seven days: and the people journeyed not till Miriam was brought in again. (Num. 12:1,10,15)
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Num. 26:59• 59And the name of Amram's wife was Jochebed, the daughter of Levi, whom her mother bare to Levi in Egypt: and she bare unto Amram Aaron and Moses, and Miriam their sister. (Num. 26:59)
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Ex. 2:4,7• 4And his sister stood afar off, to wit what would be done to him.
 7Then said his sister to Pharaoh's daughter, Shall I go and call to thee a nurse of the Hebrew women, that she may nurse the child for thee? (Ex. 2:4,7)
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Ex. 15:20• 20And Miriam the prophetess, the sister of Aaron, took a timbrel in her hand; and all the women went out after her with timbrels and with dances. (Ex. 15:20)
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Mic. 6:4• 4For I brought thee up out of the land of Egypt, and redeemed thee out of the house of servants; and I sent before thee Moses, Aaron, and Miriam. (Mic. 6:4)

J. N. Darby Translation

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And the children of Israel, the whole assembly, came into the wilderness of Zin, in the first month; and the people abode at Kadesh; and Miriam died there, and was buried there.