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Numbers 11:4

And the mixt multitude that was among them fell a lusting: and the children of Israel also wept again, and said, Who shall give us flesh to eat?

KJV

Vulgus quippe promiscuum, quod ascenderat cum eis, flagravit desiderio, sedens et flens, junctis sibi pariter filiis Israël, et ait : Quis dabit nobis ad vescendum carnes ?

Vulgate

Καὶ ὁ ἐπίμικτος ὁ ἐν αὐτοῖς ἐπεθύμησεν ἐπιθυμίαν· καὶ καθίσαντες ἔκλαιον καὶ οἱ υἱοὶ Ἰσραὴλ καὶ εἶπαν Τίς ἡμᾶς ψωμιεῖ κρέας;

LXX

And the mixed multitude that was among them lusted exceedingly: and the children of Israel also wept again, and said, Who shall give us flesh to eat?

ASV

וְ/הָֽ/אסַפְסֻף֙ אֲשֶׁ֣ר בְּ/קִרְבּ֔/וֹ הִתְאַוּ֖וּ תַּאֲוָ֑ה וַ/יָּשֻׁ֣בוּ וַ/יִּבְכּ֗וּ גַּ֚ם בְּנֵ֣י יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל וַ/יֹּ֣אמְר֔וּ מִ֥י יַאֲכִלֵ֖/נוּ בָּשָֽׂר

Hebrew

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In the original Hebrew

14 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.

אֲשֶׁר
'shr
particle · 5461×
אסַפְסֻף֙
'spsp
noun · 1×
בֶּן
bn
noun · 4909×
גַּם
gm
adverb · 764×
וֹ
v
noun · 269×
וֹ
v
noun · 227×
יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל
yshr'l
proper_noun · 2486×
יֵּ֥בְךְּ
ybk
verb · 115×
יֹּ֣אמֶר
y'mr
verb · 5290×
ם
m
verb · 811×
מִ֣י
my
particle · 420×
שׁ֣וּב
shvb
verb · 1058×
תְּאַוֶּ֖ה
t'vh
verb · 28×
תַּאֲוַ֣ת
t'vt
verb · 21×

Historic Christian voices

5 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

Chapter 1.— This Work Not Intended as a Treatise on Rhetoric. 1. This work of mine, which is entitled On Christian Doctrine, was at the commencement divided into two parts. For, after a preface, in which I answered by anticipation those who were likely to take exception to the work, I said, There are two things on which all interpretation of Scripture depends: the mode of ascer…

Cross-references

  • 1Cor 10:6 — Now these things were our examples, to the intent we should not lust after evil things, as they also lusted.
  • 1Cor 10:6 — Now these things were our examples, to the intent we should not lust after evil things, as they also lusted.
  • 1Cor 15:33 — Be not deceived: evil communications corrupt good manners.
  • 1John 2:16 — For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.
  • 2Sam 23:15 — And David longed, and said, Oh that one would give me drink of the water of the well of Bethlehem, which is by the gate!
  • Deut 9:7 — Remember, and forget not, how thou provokedst the LORD thy God to wrath in the wilderness: from the day that thou didst depart out of the land of Egypt, until ye came unto this place, ye have been reb
  • Exod 12:38 — And a mixed multitude went up also with them; and flocks, and herds, even very much cattle.
  • Exod 12:38 — And a mixed multitude went up also with them; and flocks, and herds, even very much cattle.
  • Exod 16:3 — And the children of Israel said unto them, Would to God we had died by the hand of the LORD in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the flesh pots, and when we did eat bread to the full; for ye have brou
  • Jer 42:14 — Saying, No; but we will go into the land of Egypt, where we shall see no war, nor hear the sound of the trumpet, nor have hunger of bread; and there will we dwell:
  • Lev 24:10 — And the son of an Israelitish woman, whose father was an Egyptian, went out among the children of Israel: and this son of the Israelitish woman and a man of Israel strove together in the camp;
  • Lev 25:20 — And if ye shall say, What shall we eat the seventh year? behold, we shall not sow, nor gather in our increase:
  • Matt 4:3 — And when the tempter came to him, he said, If thou be the Son of God, command that these stones be made bread.
  • Neh 13:3 — Now it came to pass, when they had heard the law, that they separated from Israel all the mixed multitude.
  • Neh 13:3 — Now it came to pass, when they had heard the law, that they separated from Israel all the mixed multitude.
  • Ps 78:18 — And they tempted God in their heart by asking meat for their lust.
  • Ps 78:18 — And they tempted God in their heart by asking meat for their lust.
  • Ps 78:19 — Yea, they spake against God; they said, Can God furnish a table in the wilderness?
  • Ps 106:14 — But lusted exceedingly in the wilderness, and tempted God in the desert.
  • Ps 106:14 — But lusted exceedingly in the wilderness, and tempted God in the desert.
  • Rev 18:14 — And the fruits that thy soul lusted after are departed from thee, and all things which were dainty and goodly are departed from thee, and thou shalt find them no more at all.
  • Rom 13:14 — But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision for the flesh, to fulfil the lusts thereof.