Numbers 21:35

וַיַּכּוּ אֹתוֹ וְאֶת־בָּנָיו וְאֶת־כָּל־עַמּוֹ עַד־בִּלְתִּי הִשְׁאִֽיר־לוֹ שָׂרִיד וַיִּֽירְשׁוּ אֶת־אַרְצֽוֹ׃

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✦ The same verse in five languages

Hebrew

וַיַּכּ֨וּ אֹת֤וֹ וְאֶת־בָּנָיו֙ וְאֶת־כָּל־עַמּ֔וֹ עַד־בִּלְתִּ֥י הִשְׁאִֽיר־ל֖וֹ שָׂרִ֑יד וַיִּֽירְשׁ֖וּ אֶת־אַרְצֽוֹ׃

Greek (Septuagint)

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Latin (Vulgate)

Percusserunt igitur et hunc cum filiis suis, universumque populum ejus usque ad internecionem, et possederunt terram illius.

Spanish

Así que los israelitas lo mataron a él, a sus hijos y a todo su ejército, sin dejar a nadie con vida; y se adueñaron de su tierra.

Classic Spanish (Reina-Valera 1909)

E hirieron á él, y á sus hijos, y á toda su gente, sin que le quedara uno, y poseyeron su tierra.

English

So they struck down Og, along with his sons and his whole army, until no remnant was left. And they took possession of his land.

✦ What the text says

Summary

The verse narrates the defeat of a king (Og, per the wider context) by Israel: he, his sons, and his entire people are struck down completely, with no survivor left, after which Israel takes possession of his land.

Key words

va-yaKu ("and they struck down", H5221) — hiphil narrative form, causative sense ("caused to be struck"), continuing the story's action chain.
bilTi ("not", H1115) — combined with 'ad ("until", H5704) to form the phrase "until there was not," expressing totality of the destruction.
hish'ir ("he had left", H7604) — hiphil perfect, a completed causative action ("he caused to remain"), here negated to mean "he left no survivor."
saRid ("a survivor", H8300) — singular noun marking the absence of even one remaining person.
va-yireShu ("and they took possession of", H3423H) — qal narrative form, marking the final consequence of the battle: territorial possession.

What the text says

The verse is built as a chain of narrative (vav-consecutive) verbs typical of Hebrew storytelling: va-yaku ("and they struck down") followed later by va-yireshu ("and they took possession"). This structure presents the events as a sequential, completed sequence — first the military defeat, then the territorial outcome. The object of the strike is expressed through three coordinated phrases marked by the object marker 'et (H0853, untranslated): "him" (oto), "and his sons" (ve-et banav), and "and all his people" (ve-et kol-ammo), each with a third-person masculine singular pronominal suffix (-o, "his") referring back to the defeated king.

The phrase ad-bilti hish'ir-lo sarid ("until there was not left to him a survivor") intensifies the totality of the destruction: the negative particle bilti combined with the perfect verb hish'ir ("he had left") produces a construction meaning "so that no remnant remained." The final clause, va-yireshu et-artzo ("and they took possession of his land"), uses the construct noun artzo ("his land," from H0776G) with the same third-person suffix, tying the outcome (possession of land) grammatically back to the same individual struck down at the start of the verse.

Differences between versions

The Hebrew text does not name the defeated king within this verse itself (he appears only as "him," oto); the BSB supplies the name "Og" explicitly, drawing on the broader narrative context, while the Vulgate and SBLIBRE retain pronominal references ("hunc," "lo") closer to the Hebrew's unnamed construction.

This explanation describes the text using linguistic data; it adds no doctrine or confessional interpretation.