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Numbers 11:3

So that place was named Taberah, because of the fire of the Lord which had been burning among them.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Miracles;   Murmuring;   Taberah;   Scofield Reference Index - Miracles;   Thompson Chain Reference - Taberah;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Desert, Journey of Israel through the;   Murmuring;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Manna;   Taberah;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Moses;   Prayer;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Discontent;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Fire;   Sinai;   Taberah;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Numbers, Book of;   Taberah;   Wanderings in the Wilderness;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Kibroth-Hattaavah;   Moses;   Numbers, Book of;   Taberah;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Taberah ;   Wanderings of the Israelites;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Taberah;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Chief parables and miracles in the bible;   Journeyings of israel from egypt to canaan;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Tab'erah,;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - On to Canaan;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Moses;   Taberah;   Wanderings of Israel;   Wrath (Anger);   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Asmodeus;   Kibroth-Hattaavah;   Wilderness, Wanderings in the;  

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
The name of that place was called Tav`erah, because the fire of the LORD burnt among them.
King James Version
And he called the name of the place Taberah: because the fire of the Lord burnt among them.
Lexham English Bible
And he called the name of that place Taberah because the fire of Yahweh burned among them.
New Century Version
So that place was called Taberah, because the Lord 's fire had burned among them.
New English Translation
So he called the name of that place Taberah because there the fire of the Lord burned among them.
Amplified Bible
He named that place Taberah (the place of burning), because the fire of the LORD burned among them.
New American Standard Bible
So that place was named Taberah, because the fire of the LORD burned among them.
Geneva Bible (1587)
And he called the name of that place Taberah, because the fire of the Lorde burnt among them.
Legacy Standard Bible
So the name of that place was called Taberah because the fire of Yahweh burned among them.
Contemporary English Version
They named the place "Burning," because in his anger the Lord had set their camp on fire.
Complete Jewish Bible
That place was called Tav‘erah [burning] because Adonai 's fire broke out against them.
Darby Translation
And they called the name of that place Taberah; because a fire of Jehovah burned among them.
Easy-to-Read Version
So that place was called Taberah. The people gave the place that name because the Lord caused a fire to burn in their camp.
English Standard Version
So the name of that place was called Taberah, because the fire of the Lord burned among them.
George Lamsa Translation
And he called the name of that place Yakdana (a burning), because the fire of the LORD burned among them.
Good News Translation
So the place was named Taberah, because there the fire of the Lord burned among them.
Christian Standard Bible®
So that place was named Taberah, because the Lord’s fire had blazed among them.
Literal Translation
And he called the name of that place Taberah, because the fire of Jehovah burned among them.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And the place was called Tabera, because the fyre of the LORDE burnt amonge them.
American Standard Version
And the name of that place was called Taberah, because the fire of Jehovah burnt among them.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And he called the name of the place Taberah, because the fire of the Lorde burnt among them.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
And the name of that place was called Taberah, because the fire of the LORD burnt among them.
King James Version (1611)
And hee called the name of the place Taberah: because the fire of the Lord burnt among them.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And the name of that place was called Burning; for a fire was kindled among them from the Lord.
English Revised Version
And the name of that place was called Taberah: because the fire of the LORD burnt among them.
Berean Standard Bible
So that place was called Taberah, because the fire of the LORD had burned among them.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And he clepid the name of that place Brennyng, for the fier of the Lord was kyndlid ayens hem.
Young's Literal Translation
and he calleth the name of that place Taberah, for the fire of Jehovah hath `burned' among them.
Update Bible Version
And the name of that place was called Taberah, because the fire of Yahweh burnt among them.
Webster's Bible Translation
And he called the name of the place Taberah; because the fire of the LORD burnt among them.
World English Bible
The name of that place was called Taberah, because the fire of Yahweh burnt among them.
New King James Version
So he called the name of the place Taberah, [fn] because the fire of the Lord had burned among them.
New Living Translation
After that, the area was known as Taberah (which means "the place of burning"), because fire from the Lord had burned among them there.
New Life Bible
So the name of that place was called Taberah, because the fire of the Lord burned among them.
New Revised Standard
So that place was called Taberah, because the fire of the Lord burned against them.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
So he called the name of that place, Taberah because there burned among them the fire of Yahweh.
Douay-Rheims Bible
And he called the name of that place, The burning: for that the fire of the Lord had been kindled against them.
Revised Standard Version
So the name of that place was called Tab'erah, because the fire of the LORD burned among them.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
So the name of that place was called Taberah, because the fire of the LORD burned among them.

Contextual Overview

1 Now the people were saying evil against the Lord; and the Lord, hearing it, was angry and sent fire on them, burning the outer parts of the tent-circle. 2 And the people made an outcry to Moses, and Moses made prayer to the Lord, and the fire was stopped. 3 So that place was named Taberah, because of the fire of the Lord which had been burning among them.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Taberah: that is, a burning, Deuteronomy 9:22

Cross-References

Genesis 11:4
And they said, Come, let us make a town, and a tower whose top will go up as high as heaven; and let us make a great name for ourselves, so that we may not be wanderers over the face of the earth.
Genesis 11:6
And the Lord said, See, they are all one people and have all one language; and this is only the start of what they may do: and now it will not be possible to keep them from any purpose of theirs.
Genesis 11:7
Come, let us go down and take away the sense of their language, so that they will not be able to make themselves clear to one another.
Genesis 11:18
And Peleg was thirty years old when he became the father of Reu:
Genesis 14:10
Now the valley of Siddim was full of holes of sticky earth; and the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah were put to flight and came to their end there, but the rest got away to the mountain.
Exodus 1:14
And made their lives bitter with hard work, making building-material and bricks, and doing all sorts of work in the fields under the hardest conditions.
Exodus 2:3
And when she was no longer able to keep him secret, she made him a basket out of the stems of water-plants, pasting sticky earth over it to keep the water out; and placing the baby in it she put it among the plants by the edge of the Nile.
2 Samuel 12:31
And he took the people out of the town and put them to work with wood-cutting instruments, and iron grain-crushers, and iron axes, and at brick-making: this he did to all the towns of the children of Ammon. Then David and all the people went back to Jerusalem.
Psalms 64:5
They make themselves strong in an evil purpose; they make holes for secret nets; they say, Who will see it,
Proverbs 1:11
If they say, Come with us; let us make designs against the good, waiting secretly for the upright, without cause;

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And he called the name of the place Taberah,.... That is, "burning": Moses called it so; or it may be rendered impersonally, it was called s so in later times by the people:

because the fire of the Lord burnt among them; to perpetuate the, memory of this kind of punishment for their sins, that it might be a terror and warning to others; and this history is indeed recorded for our caution in these last days, that we murmur not as these Israelites did, and were destroyed of the destroyer, 1 Corinthians 10:10.

s ויקרא "et vocatum est", Tigurine version, Fagius, Piscator.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Taberah - i. e. “burning:” not the name of a station, and accordingly not found in the list given in Numbers 33:0, but the name of the spot where the fire broke out. This incident might seem (compare Numbers 11:34) to have occurred at the station called, from another still more terrible event which shortly followed, Kibroth-hattaavah.


 
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