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Numbers 12:1 open_in_new
Miriam. Named first to show she was first in the rebellion. See Numbers 12:10. Compare Genesis 3:3.
Ethiopian. Zipporah. Hebrew. Cushite. Arabia was in the land of Cush: or Zipporah (Exodus 2:21) may have been of Cushite nationality, though territorially. Midianite.
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Numbers 12:2 open_in_new
Hath... ? Figure of speech Erotesis. App-6.
the LORD. Hebrew. Jehovah. App-4.
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Numbers 12:3 open_in_new
man. Hebrew. 'ish. App-14.
very meek. patient. First occurrence. Hebrew. 'anah = to endure with submission what might be evaded: in contrast with Hebrew. 'ani = to bear what cannot be avoided.
men. Hebrew. 'adam. App-14.
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Numbers 12:4 open_in_new
spake. See note on Numbers 1:1.
tabernacle. tent. Hebrew. 'ohel. See App-40.
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Numbers 12:5 open_in_new
door. entrance.
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Numbers 12:6 open_in_new
He: i.e. Jehovah.
said. See note on Numbers 3:40.
If there be. should there be; i.e. when ye have your prophet.
make Myself known. This also essential to. prophet. Compare Numbers 11:29.
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Numbers 12:7 open_in_new
My servant Moses. First occurrence. Occurs six times. See Numbers 12:7; Numbers 12:8; Joshua 1:2; Joshua 1:7; 2 Kings 21:8. Mai. Numbers 4:4.
not so: i.e. much greater. Compare Numbers 12:8.
who is faithful. Compare Hebrews 3:2, or, Faithful is he, &c.
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Numbers 12:8 open_in_new
mouth to mouth. Compare Genesis 45:12; 2 John 1:12; 3 John 1:14. See also Exodus 33:11.Deuteronomy 34:10. Figure of speech Anthropopatheia. App-6.
apparently. plainly.
not, &c.. Figure of speech Pleonasm. App-6.
similitude: i.e. likeness or image. This must be understood in harmony with Exodus 33:20; Exodus 33:23. Compare Deuteronomy 4:12; Deuteronomy 4:15. Joh 1:18. 1 Timothy 6:16. Compare Colossians 1:15.
against, &c. Hebrew "against my servant, against Moses. "Compare idiom in Genesis 21:10 and note.
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Numbers 12:9 open_in_new
kindled: with instant result.
He: i.e. Jehovah.
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Numbers 12:10 open_in_new
leprous. See note on Exodus 4:6.
behold. Figure of speech Asterismos. App-6. = "there she was leprous! "abruptness of language reveals the excitement produced.
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Numbers 12:11 open_in_new
sin... sinned. Hebrew. chat'a. App-44.
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Numbers 12:12 open_in_new
dead. stillborn.
the flesh. The Primitive Text lead "our flesh". This is one of the eighteen emendations of the Sopherim (see App-33), to avoid what was supposed to he derogatory to Aaron.
his mother's. The Primitive Text read "our mother's" (see above note): thus it is made impersonal.
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Numbers 12:13 open_in_new
GOD. El.. God, the mighty God. See App-4.
spit in her face. treat with contempt: so the idiom is used in Syriac and Arabic to-day. Hebrew "had spitted. spitting. "Figure of speech Polyptoton (App-6), for emphasis. Compare Job 30:10.
seven days. Compare Leviticus 13:4; Leviticus 13:5; Leviticus 13:21; Leviticus 13:26.
received in. Homonym 'asaph (1) to heal or recover, here, 2 Kings 5:6; Psalms 27:10. (2) to snatch away or destroy, Psalms 26:9; Jeremiah 16:5.
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Numbers 12:15 open_in_new
brought. received, Numbers 12:14.