Numbers 1:35

Summary

Numbers 1:35 gives the census total for the tribe of Manasseh: the men enrolled from this tribe numbered thirty-two thousand two hundred. The verse consists almost entirely of a construct phrase identifying the group counted, followed by a sequence of cardinal numbers.

Key words

• pequdei ("enrolled [men]", H6485A) — qal passive participle, masculine plural construct; grammatically it functions as "the enrolled/mustered ones of," linking directly to the following possessive suffix and tribe name.
• Hem ("their", H9028) — pronominal suffix attached to pequdei, specifying that these enrolled men belong to the group named next (the tribe of Manasseh).
• matteh ("[the] tribe of", H4294H) — masculine singular construct noun, syntactically binding to the proper name Menasheh to form "tribe of Manasseh."
• shenayim ("two", H8147) — cardinal number in dual form, here functioning as part of the compound total ("thirty-two").
• 'elef ("thousand", H0505G) — singular common-gender noun used after the number "thirty" to express the magnitude of the total.

What the text says

The verse opens with the construct chain pequdei-hem le-matteh Menasheh, "the enrolled of them, belonging to the tribe of Manasseh." The participle pequdei ("enrolled ones", H6485A) is passive, indicating men who have been counted or mustered, and its construct form ties it grammatically to the suffix Hem ("their", H9028) and then, via the preposition le ("of", H9005), to matteh Menasheh ("tribe of Manasseh"). This construction mirrors the pattern used throughout the census list in Numbers 1, where each tribe's total is introduced the same way.

The numerical total is built cumulatively: shenayim ("two", H8147) combines with shloshim ("thirty", H7970) to form "thirty-two," which then modifies 'elef ("thousand", H0505G). The additional matayim ("two hundred", H3967), a feminine dual form, is added with the conjunction u ("and", H9002) to complete the figure of thirty-two thousand two hundred. Hebrew numeral syntax here places the smaller unit (two) before the larger (thirty) before "thousand," a structure that differs from the English/Spanish rendering order but yields the same total.

Differences between versions

The Hebrew text (TAHOT) specifies the tribe of Menasheh ("Manasseh", H4519G) with a total of 32,200. The Vulgate (VULCLEM) preserves this same tribe and figure, "triginta duo millia ducenti" (thirty-two thousand two hundred). However, the LXX text provided (LXXSWETE) names a different tribe, "Βενιαμείν" (Benjamin), and gives a different total, "πέντε καὶ τριάκοντα χιλιάδες καὶ τετρακόσιοι" (thirty-five thousand four hundred), corresponding to figures elsewhere in the chapter's tribal census rather than to Manasseh's count in the Hebrew and Vulgate here.