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Geneva Bible

Numbers 11:3

And he called the name of that place Taberah, because the fire of the Lorde burnt 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.
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.
Bible in Basic English
So that place was named Taberah, because of the fire of the Lord which had been burning 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 VVhen the people became murmurers, it displeased the Lorde: and the Lorde heard it, therefore his wrath was kindled, and the fire of the Lorde burnt among them, and consumed the vtmost parte of the hoste. 2 Then the people cryed vnto Moses: and when Moses praied vnto the Lorde, the fire was quenched. 3 And he called the name of that place Taberah, because the fire of the Lorde burnt among them.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

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

Cross-References

Genesis 11:4
Also they said, Goe to, let vs builde vs a citie and a towre, whose top may reache vnto the heauen, that we may get vs a name, lest we be scattered vpon the whole earth.
Genesis 11:6
And the Lord said, Beholde, the people is one, and they all haue one language, and this they begin to doe, neither can they now be stopped from whatsoeuer they haue imagined to do.
Genesis 11:7
Come on, let vs goe downe, and there confound their language, that euery one perceiue not anothers speache.
Genesis 11:18
And Peleg liued thirtie yeeres, and begate Reu.
Genesis 14:10
Now the vale of Siddim was full of slime pits, & the Kings of Sodom & Gomorah fled and fell there: and ye residue fled to the mountaine.
Exodus 1:14
Thus they made them weary of their liues by sore labour in clay & in bricke, & in al worke in the fielde, with all maner of bondage, which they layde vpon them most cruelly.
Exodus 2:3
But when she could no longer hide him, she tooke for him an arke made of reede, and daubed it with slime and with pitch, and laide the childe therein, and put it among the bulrushes by the riuers brinke.
2 Samuel 12:31
And he carryed away the people that was therein, and put them vnder sawes, and vnder yron harowes, and vnder axes of yron, and cast them into the tyle kylne: euen thus did he with all the cities of the children of Ammon. Then Dauid & all the people returned vnto Ierusalem.
Psalms 64:5
They encourage themselues in a wicked purpose: they commune together to lay snares priuilie, and say, Who shall see them?
Proverbs 1:11
If they say, Come with vs, we will lay waite for blood, and lie priuilie for the innocent without a 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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