Numbers 33:53 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Bible Comments

inhabitants of the land. Figure of speech Ellipsis (App-6) correctly supplied. Hebrew "land" is put by Figure of speech Metonymy (of Subject), for the inhabitants.

Numbers 33:53

53 And ye shall dispossess the inhabitants of the land, and dwell therein: for I have given you the land to possess it.