Numbers 21:18
Parallel Strong's
Berean Study Bible
The princes dug the well; the nobles of the people hollowed it out with their scepters and with their staffs.” From the wilderness the Israelites went on to Mattanah,

Young's Literal Translation
‘A well—digged it have princes, Prepared it have nobles of the people, With the lawgiver, with their staves.’ And from the wilderness [they journeyed] to Mattanah,

King James Bible
The princes digged the well, the nobles of the people digged it, by [the direction of] the lawgiver, with their staves. And from the wilderness [they went] to Mattanah:

Hebrew
The princes
שָׂרִ֗ים (śā·rîm)
Noun - masculine plural
Strong's 8269: Chieftain, chief, ruler, official, captain, prince

dug
חֲפָר֣וּהָ (ḥă·p̄ā·rū·hā)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person common plural | third person feminine singular
Strong's 2658: To pry into, to delve, to explore

the well;
בְּאֵ֞ר (bə·’êr)
Noun - feminine singular
Strong's 875: A pit, a well

the nobles
נְדִיבֵ֣י (nə·ḏî·ḇê)
Adjective - masculine plural construct
Strong's 5081: Voluntary, generous, magnanimous, a grandee

of the people
הָעָ֔ם (hā·‘ām)
Article | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 5971: A people, a tribe, troops, attendants, a flock

hollowed it out
כָּר֙וּהָ֙ (kā·rū·hā)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person common plural | third person feminine singular
Strong's 3738: To dig, to plot, to bore, open

with their scepters
בִּמְחֹקֵ֖ק (bim·ḥō·qêq)
Preposition-b | Verb - Piel - Participle - masculine singular
Strong's 2710: To hack, engrave, to enact, prescribe

and with their staffs.”
בְּמִשְׁעֲנֹתָ֑ם (bə·miš·‘ă·nō·ṯām)
Preposition-b | Noun - feminine plural construct | third person masculine plural
Strong's 4938: Support, sustenance, a walking-stick

From the wilderness [the Israelites went on]
וּמִמִּדְבָּ֖ר (ū·mim·miḏ·bār)
Conjunctive waw, Preposition-m | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 4057: A pasture, a desert, speech

to Mattanah,
מַתָּנָֽה׃ (mat·tā·nāh)
Noun - proper - feminine singular
Strong's 4980: Mattanah -- a place East of the Jordan

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           
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