“Send agents “men.” See the Dictionary under ’ish; Agent. to scout the land of Canaan, which I am giving to the Israelite people; send one participant from each of their ancestral tribes, each one a chieftain among them.”
So Moses, by יהוה’s command, sent them out from the wilderness of Paran, all of them being men of consequence, all of them being men of consequence Heb. kullam ’anashim; NJPS “all the men being [leaders, etc.]”; trad. “all of them men.” See the Dictionary under ’ish. leaders of the Israelites.
Word-by-Word Analysis
וישלח
354
אתם
441
משה
345
ממדבר
286
פארן
331
עלפי
190
יהוה
26
כלם
90
אנשים
401
ראשי
511
בניישראל
603
המה
50
Numbers 13:4
Gematria: 1872
ואלהשמותםלמטהראובןשמועבןזכור
And these were their names: From the tribe of Reuben, Shammua son of Zaccur.
Word-by-Word Analysis
ואלה
42
שמותם
786
למטה
84
ראובן
259
שמוע
416
בןזכור
285
Numbers 13:5
Gematria: 1215
למטהשמעוןשפטבןחורי
From the tribe of Simeon, Shaphat son of Hori.
Word-by-Word Analysis
למטה
84
שמעון
466
שפט
389
בןחורי
276
Numbers 13:6
Gematria: 363
למטהיהודהכלבבןיפנה
From the tribe of Judah, Caleb son of Jephunneh.
Word-by-Word Analysis
למטה
84
יהודה
30
כלב
52
בןיפנה
197
Numbers 13:7
Gematria: 1166
למטהיששכריגאלבןיוסף
From the tribe of Issachar, Igal son of Joseph.
Word-by-Word Analysis
למטה
84
יששכר
830
יגאל
44
בןיוסף
208
Numbers 13:8
Gematria: 954
למטהאפריםהושעבןנון
From the tribe of Ephraim, Hosea Hosea Or “Hoshea.” son of Nun.
Word-by-Word Analysis
למטה
84
אפרים
331
הושע
381
בןנון
158
Numbers 13:9
Gematria: 704
למטהבנימןפלטיבןרפוא
From the tribe of Benjamin, Palti son of Rafu.
Word-by-Word Analysis
למטה
84
בנימן
152
פלטי
129
בןרפוא
339
Numbers 13:10
Gematria: 359
למטהזבולןגדיאלבןסודי
From the tribe of Zebulun, Gaddiel son of Sodi.
Word-by-Word Analysis
למטה
84
זבולן
95
גדיאל
48
בןסודי
132
Numbers 13:11
Gematria: 924
למטהיוסףלמטהמנשהגדיבןסוסי
From the tribe of Joseph, namely, the tribe of Manasseh, Gaddi son of Susi.
Those were the names of the participants whom Moses sent to scout the land; but Moses changed the name of Hosea Hosea Or “Hoshea.” son of Nun to Joshua.
Is the soil rich or poor? Is it wooded or not? And take pains to bring back some of the fruit of the land.”—Now it happened to be the season of the first ripe grapes.
Word-by-Word Analysis
ומה
51
הארץ
296
השמנה
400
הוא
12
אםרזה
253
הישבה
322
עץ
160
אםאין
102
והתחזקתם
966
ולקחתם
584
מפרי
330
הארץ
296
והימים
111
ימי
60
בכורי
238
ענבים
172
Numbers 13:21
Gematria: 2632
ויעלוויתרואתהארץממדברצןעדרחבלבאחמת
They went up and scouted the land, from the wilderness of Zin to Rehob, at Lebo-hamath. .”
They went up into the Negeb and came to Hebron, where lived Ahiman, Sheshai, and Talmai, the Anakites.—Now Hebron was founded seven years before Zoan of Egypt.—
They reached the wadi Eshcol, and there they cut down a branch with a single cluster of grapes—it had to be borne on a carrying frame by two of them—and some pomegranates and figs.
They went straight to Moses and Aaron and the whole Israelite community at Kadesh in the wilderness of Paran, and they made their report to them and to the whole community, as they showed them the fruit of the land.
Amalekites dwell in the Negeb region; Hittites, Jebusites, and Amorites inhabit the hill country; and Canaanites dwell by the Sea and along the Jordan.”
Thus they spread calumnies among the Israelites about the land they had scouted, saying, “The country that we traversed and scouted is one that devours its settlers. All the people that we saw in it are of great size;
we saw the Nephilim Nephilim See Gen. 6.4. there—the Anakites are part of the Nephilim—and we looked like grasshoppers to ourselves, and so we must have looked to them.”