Numbers3:27–32

The four Kohathite clans, named again in the Chronicler's roster verbal / quotation — confirmed

The exact gentilics of v. 27 — Amramite, Izharite, Hebronite, Uzzielite — recur in David's organization of the Levites. ⚙ The Verifier finds an unusually strong verbal anchor here: three of the four gentilics are rare lexemes (Uzzielite H5817 in 2 verses, Izharite H3325 in 4, Hebronite H2276 in 5), so this is a genuine verbal reuse of fixed clan-names, not a generic genealogical overlap.

Numbers 3:27 · 1 Chronicles 26:23

basis: shared rare lexemes (Verifier): H5817 ʻOzzîyʼêlîy (in 2 vv), H6020 ʻAmrâmîy (in 2 vv), H3325 Yitshârîy (in 4 vv), H2276 Chebrôwnîy (in 5 vv) — the low frequencies make the shared clan-names a recorded verbal link

Kohath's house re-listed in the second-generation census verbal / quotation — confirmed

The Kohathite clan-frame of v. 27 is restated in the second wilderness census (Numbers 26:57–58), where Kohath and his clans head the Levite tally again. ⚙ The shared lexemes are the gentilic Qŏhâthîy (H6956, 15 vv) and the proper name Qᵉhâth (H6955, 29 vv); these are specific enough to confirm a verbal link, though less rare than the Chronicler's four-name set, so weighted accordingly.

Numbers 3:27 · Numbers 26:57

basis: shared lexemes (Verifier): H6956 Qŏhâthîy (in 15 vv), H6955 Qᵉhâth (in 29 vv); shared but common H4940 mishpâchâh noted, not weighted

Elizaphan son of Uzziel — fixed across the Kohathite records verbal / quotation — confirmed

The chief named in v. 30 appears with the same patronym at Exodus 6:22 (his birth in Kohath's house) and at Leviticus 10:4, where Elizaphan and Mishael carry out the bodies of Nadab and Abihu. ⚙ The link rests on the rare name pair ’Ĕlîytsâphân (H469, only 6 vv) and ‘Uzzîyʼêl (H5816, 16 vv) — rare enough for the Verifier to record a verbal connection tying the man's appointment here to his earlier and later appearances.

Numbers 3:30 · Exodus 6:22 · Leviticus 10:4

basis: shared lexemes (Verifier): H469 ʼĔlîytsâphân (in 6 vv), H5816 ʻUzzîyʼêl (in 16 vv) — the rare name H469 carries the link

A second Elizaphan — the rare name shared by two different men flagged — verify source

An honesty note on the limits of the index. The rare name ’Ĕlîytsâphân (H469) also occurs at Numbers 34:25 — but there it names a wholly different man, Elizaphan son of Parnach, the nāśî’ (prince) of the tribe of Zebulun appointed to divide the land. ⚙ The Verifier records the shared lexeme (H469, with the common title H5387 nāśî’), so the bare lexical match scores as "verbal"; but the referents are not the same person. We deliberately do not treat this as a thread to the Kohathite chief: a shared rare name confirms shared vocabulary, never automatically shared identity. The match is logged here precisely to show the verbal tool's blind spot — it counts words, not who bears them.

Numbers 3:30 · Numbers 34:25

basis: Verifier reports H469 ʼĔlîytsâphân (in 6 vv) + H5387 nâsîyʼ shared, which would score "verbal" — but the two Elizaphans are distinct men (Uzziel's son vs. Parnach's son of Zebulun); lexeme identity ≠ referent identity, so flagged not confirmed

The Kohathite charge, spelled out and guarded in Numbers 4 structural / thematic — confirmed

The inventory of v. 31 (ark, screen, vessels) is the same trust whose handling Numbers 4:5–15 governs — the priests veil each item before the Kohathites may carry it, on pain of death. ⚙ This is a structural/thematic link: the Verifier finds shared concrete nouns, the screen mâçâk (H4539, 25 vv) and the ark ’ârôwn (H727, 174 vv), confirming the two passages are about the same objects, but it claims no quotation — the connection is the carried-charge motif, not a verbal citation.

Numbers 3:31 · Numbers 4:5

basis: shared lexemes (Verifier): H4539 mâçâk (in 25 vv), H727 ʼârôwn (in 174 vv) — shared objects, no quotation claimed

Eleazar's oversight of the sanctuary, restated in Numbers 4 structural / thematic — confirmed

Eleazar's superintendence of "the keepers of the keeping of the holy" (v. 32) is amplified at Numbers 4:16, where Eleazar is given specific charge of the oil, incense, and the whole tabernacle. ⚙ The Verifier records the office-noun pᵉquddâh (H6486, 31 vv) plus the names Eleazar (H499) and Aaron (H175) and qôdesh (H6944) as shared — a thematic confirmation of the same officer and the same duty, not a quotation.

Numbers 3:32 · Numbers 4:16

basis: shared lexemes (Verifier): H6486 pᵉquddâh (in 31 vv), H499 ʼElʻâzâr (in 70 vv), H175 ʼAhărôwn (in 328 vv), H6944 qôdesh (in 382 vv)

Counted from a month old — the Levite exemption from war structural / thematic — confirmed

The infant-census of v. 28 ("from a son of a month and upward") sets the Levites apart from the fighting muster of "twenty years and upward" (Numbers 1:3). ⚙ The Verifier finds only the directional adverb maʻal (H4605, 134 vv), "and upward," as a shared lexeme — too common to claim quotation; the real link is the structural contrast in counting-age, argued rather than asserted, so this is tiered thematic.

Numbers 3:28 · Numbers 1:3

basis: shared lexeme (Verifier): H4605 maʻal (in 134 vv) — common; link is the contrasting census-age structure, argued not quoted

Eleazar the "second priest" — the office traced to the exile structural / thematic — confirmed

Poole's note that Eleazar is the "second priest" points to 2 Kings 25:18, where Zephaniah holds that very rank at the fall of Jerusalem. ⚙ The Verifier finds only common cultic words shared — šāmar (H8104, 440 vv) and kôhên (H3548, 653 vv) — far too frequent to support a verbal claim. The connection is the institutional office of deputy-priest persisting across centuries; it is an argued structural link, and the specific identification of Eleazar's role with the later title is Poole's inference, ⚙ reasonable but extra-textual.

Numbers 3:32 · 2 Kings 25:18

basis: shared lexemes (Verifier): H8104 shâmar (in 440 vv), H3548 kôhên (in 653 vv) — both common; link is the deputy-priest office, argued, not a quotation

Korah of the Izharite house — the rebellion latent in the list flagged — verify source

The Izharite branch of v. 27 and the slighted elder line behind v. 30 both surface in Numbers 16:1, where Korah son of Izhar leads the revolt. ⚙ The Verifier finds no shared original-language lexeme between 3:30 and 16:1 — the connection is entirely thematic/genealogical and must be argued, which is exactly what the commentators (Gill, Pulpit) do, and they do so by conjecture ("some think," "may have"). Honesty requires flagging this rather than asserting a verbal tie that the index does not support.

Numbers 3:30 · Numbers 16:1

basis: Verifier: no shared original-language lexeme found — the Korah connection is genealogical/thematic and conjectural in the commentary (Gill's "some think," Pulpit's "may have"), not a textual link

The veil the Kohathites carried — opened in the flesh of Christ ancient/widely-held

Chief among the Kohathite charge is ham·mā·sāḵ, the inner veil before the Most Holy (v. 31, as Benson and Cambridge read it). ⚙ Hebrews 10:19–20 reads that veil typologically as the body of Christ: believers enter "by a new and living way which he hath consecrated for us, through the veil, that is to say, his flesh." ⚙ This is a cross-Testament link and therefore cannot rest on shared Strong's numbers (Greek↔Hebrew); the Verifier confirms no shared lexeme. The tier is typological, not verbal. The Kohathites guarded and bore the very barrier that, in the apostolic reading, was finally torn — the thing they carried with such care prefigured the access it once denied.

Numbers 3:31 · Hebrews 10:19-20 · Matthew 27:51

Keepers of the keeping — the people made a kingdom of priests widely-held

The whole unit turns on entrusted custody of the holy — šōmərê mišmereṯ, keepers of the keeping (vv. 28, 32). ⚙ The New Testament universalizes the Kohathite vocation: where once a single guarded clan bore the sanctuary's holy things, 1 Peter 2:5 and 2:9 declare the whole church "a holy priesthood" and "a royal priesthood," built up as living stones to offer spiritual sacrifices. ⚙ Cross-Testament and so non-verbal — the Verifier finds no shared lexeme — this is a typological/structural fulfillment: the narrow Levitical custody of holiness opens, in Christ, into a priesthood of all believers. Read as anticipation, the careful gradations of Numbers 3 (keepers, overseer of keepers, high priest above all) point toward the one High Priest under whom all the redeemed now keep the charge.

Numbers 3:28 · Numbers 3:32 · 1 Peter 2:5