Numbers 3:23
Strong's Lexicon
The Gershonite
הַגֵּרְשֻׁנִּ֑י (hag·gê·rə·šun·nî)
Article | Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 1649: Gershonite = see Geshur 1) a descendant of Gershon, firstborn son of Levi

clans
מִשְׁפְּחֹ֖ת (miš·pə·ḥōṯ)
Noun - feminine plural construct
Strong's Hebrew 4940: 1) clan, family 1a) clan 1a1) family 1a2) tribe 1a3) people, nation 1b) guild 1c) species, kind 1d) aristocrats

were to camp
יַחֲנ֖וּ (ya·ḥă·nū)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 2583: 1) to decline, incline, encamp, bend down, lay siege against 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to decline 1a2) to encamp

on the west,
יָֽמָּה׃ (yām·māh)
Noun - masculine singular | third person feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 3220: 1) sea 1a) Mediterranean Sea 1b) Red Sea 1c) Dead Sea 1d) Sea of Galilee 1e) sea (general) 1f) mighty river (Nile) 1g) the sea (the great basin in the temple court) 1h) seaward, west, westward

behind
אַחֲרֵ֧י (’a·ḥă·rê)
Preposition
Strong's Hebrew 310: 1) after the following part, behind (of place), hinder, afterwards (of time) 1a) as an adverb 1a1) behind (of place) 1a2) afterwards (of time) 1b) as a preposition 1b1) behind, after (of place) 1b2) after (of time) 1b3) besides 1c) as a conjunction 1c) after that 1d) as a substantive 1d1) hinder part 1e) with other prepositions 1e1) from behind 1e2) from following after

the tabernacle,
הַמִּשְׁכָּ֛ן (ham·miš·kān)
Article | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 4908: 1) dwelling place, tabernacle 1a) dwelling-place 1b) dwellings

Parallel Strong's
Berean Study Bible
The Gershonite clans were to camp on the west, behind the tabernacle,

Young's Literal Translation
The families of the Gershonite, behind the tabernacle, do encamp westward.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
The Gershonite clans camped behind the tabernacle on the west side,

New American Standard Bible
The families of the Gershonites were to camp behind the tabernacle westward,

King James Bible
The families of the Gershonites shall pitch behind the tabernacle westward.
Parallel Verses
New International Version
The Gershonite clans were to camp on the west, behind the tabernacle.

New Living Translation
They were assigned the area to the west of the Tabernacle for their camp.

English Standard Version
The clans of the Gershonites were to camp behind the tabernacle on the west,

New American Standard Bible
The families of the Gershonites were to camp behind the tabernacle westward,

King James Bible
The families of the Gershonites shall pitch behind the tabernacle westward.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
The Gershonite clans camped behind the tabernacle on the west side,

International Standard Version
The families of the descendants of Gershon encamped behind the tent toward the west.

NET Bible
The families of the Gershonites were to camp behind the tabernacle toward the west.

American Standard Version
The families of the Gershonites shall encamp behind the tabernacle westward.

English Revised Version
The families of the Gershonites shall pitch behind the tabernacle westward.

Young's Literal Translation
The families of the Gershonite, behind the tabernacle, do encamp westward.
















Cross References
Numbers 1:53
But the Levites shall pitch round about the tabernacle of testimony, that there be no wrath upon the congregation of the children of Israel: and the Levites shall keep the charge of the tabernacle of testimony.

Numbers 3:22
Those that were numbered of them, according to the number of all the males, from a month old and upward, even those that were numbered of them were seven thousand and five hundred.

Numbers 3:24
And the chief of the house of the father of the Gershonites shall be Eliasaph the son of Lael.

Numbers 1:1
And the LORD spake unto Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, in the tabernacle of the congregation, on the first day of the second month, in the second year after they were come out of the land of Egypt, saying,

Numbers 3:21
Of Gershon was the family of the Libnites, and the family of the Shimites: these are the families of the Gershonites.

Numbers 3:20
And the sons of Merari by their families; Mahli, and Mushi. These are the families of the Levites according to the house of their fathers.

Numbers 3:25
And the charge of the sons of Gershon in the tabernacle of the congregation shall be the tabernacle, and the tent, the covering thereof, and the hanging for the door of the tabernacle of the congregation,

Numbers 3:26
And the hangings of the court, and the curtain for the door of the court, which is by the tabernacle, and by the altar round about, and the cords of it for all the service thereof.
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