Numbers 11:3

3 And he called the name of that place Taberah because the fire of Yahweh burned among them.

Numbers 11:3 Meaning and Commentary

Numbers 11:3

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 ^F19 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 1 Corinthians 10:11 ) .

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FOOTNOTES:

F19 (arqyw) "et vocatum est", Tigurine version, Fagius, Piscator.

Numbers 11:3 In-Context

1 And it happened, the people were like those who {complain of hardship} {in the hearing} of Yahweh, and Yahweh {became angry}, and the fire of Yahweh burned among them, and it consumed the edge of the camp.

2 Then the people cried out to Moses, and Moses prayed to Yahweh, and the fire died down.

3 And he called the name of that place Taberah because the fire of Yahweh burned among them.

4 The riff-raff that [were] in their midst {had a strong desire}; and the {Israelites} turned back and also wept, and they said, "Who will feed us meat?

5 We remember the fish that we ate in Egypt for nothing, the cucumber, melon, leek, the onions, and the garlic.

Footnotes

• [a]. This word is difficult, but some modern translations suggest the word in Hebrew means "burning" (see NRSV, NASB)