2 Chronicles 26:12
The whole number of the heads of fathers’ households, even the mighty men of valor, was two thousand six hundred.This verse in the real world
In what words
- מִסְפָּרmiçpâra number, definite (arithmetical) or indefinite (large, innumerable; small, a few); also (
- גִּבּוֹרgibbôwrpowerful; by implication, warrior, tyrant
- שֵׁשׁshêshsix (as an overplus beyond five or the fingers of the hand); as ord. sixth
- חַיִלchayilprobably a force, whether of men, means or other resources; an army, wealth, virtue, valor
- אֶלֶףʼelephhence (the ox's head being the first letter of the alphabet, and this eventually used as a
- מֵאָהmêʼâha hundred; also as a multiplicative and a fraction
- רֹאשׁrôʼshthe head (as most easily shaken), whether literal or figurative (in many applications, of
- אָבʼâbfather, in a literal and immediate, or figurative and remote application
The Hebrew and Greek words standing behind this verse. Word-by-word alignment comes with the interlinear.