Matthew 14:21
New International Version
The number of those who ate was about five thousand men, besides women and children.

New Living Translation
About 5,000 men were fed that day, in addition to all the women and children!

English Standard Version
And those who ate were about five thousand men, besides women and children.

Berean Standard Bible
About five thousand men were fed, in addition to women and children.

Berean Literal Bible
And those eating were about five thousand men, besides women and children.

King James Bible
And they that had eaten were about five thousand men, beside women and children.

New King James Version
Now those who had eaten were about five thousand men, besides women and children.

New American Standard Bible
There were about five thousand men who ate, besides women and children.

NASB 1995
There were about five thousand men who ate, besides women and children.

NASB 1977
And there were about five thousand men who ate, aside from women and children.

Legacy Standard Bible
And there were about five thousand men who ate, besides women and children.

Amplified Bible
There were about 5,000 men who ate, besides women and children.

Christian Standard Bible
Now those who ate were about five thousand men, besides women and children.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Now those who ate were about 5,000 men, besides women and children.

American Standard Version
And they that did eat were about five thousand men, besides women and children.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
But those men who ate were 5,000, apart from the women and children.

Contemporary English Version
There were about 5,000 men who ate, not counting the women and children.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And the number of them that did eat, was five thousand men, besides women and children.

English Revised Version
And they that did eat were about five thousand men, beside women an children.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
About five thousand men had eaten. (This number does not include the women and children who had eaten.)

Good News Translation
The number of men who ate was about five thousand, not counting the women and children.

International Standard Version
Now those who had eaten were about 5,000 men, besides women and children.

Literal Standard Version
and those eating were about five thousand men, apart from women and children.

Majority Standard Bible
About five thousand men were fed, in addition to women and children.

New American Bible
Those who ate were about five thousand men, not counting women and children.

NET Bible
Not counting women and children, there were about five thousand men who ate.

New Revised Standard Version
And those who ate were about five thousand men, besides women and children.

New Heart English Bible
Now those who ate were about five thousand men, besides women and children.

Webster's Bible Translation
And they that had eaten were about five thousand men, besides women and children.

Weymouth New Testament
Those who had eaten were about 5,000 adult men, without reckoning women and children.

World English Bible
Those who ate were about five thousand men, in addition to women and children.

Young's Literal Translation
and those eating were about five thousand men, apart from women and children.

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Context
The Feeding of the Five Thousand
20They all ate and were satisfied, and the disciples picked up twelve basketfuls of broken pieces that were left over. 21About five thousand men were fed, in addition to women and children. 22Immediately Jesus made the disciples get into the boat and go on ahead of Him to the other side, while He dismissed the crowds.…

Cross References
Matthew 14:20
They all ate and were satisfied, and the disciples picked up twelve basketfuls of broken pieces that were left over.

Matthew 14:22
Immediately Jesus made the disciples get into the boat and go on ahead of Him to the other side, while He dismissed the crowds.

Mark 6:44
And there were five thousand men who had eaten the loaves.

John 6:10
"Have the people sit down," Jesus said. Now there was plenty of grass in that place, so the men sat down, about five thousand of them.


Treasury of Scripture

And they that had eaten were about five thousand men, beside women and children.

about.

John 6:10
And Jesus said, Make the men sit down. Now there was much grass in the place. So the men sat down, in number about five thousand.

Acts 4:4,34
Howbeit many of them which heard the word believed; and the number of the men was about five thousand…

2 Corinthians 9:8-11
And God is able to make all grace abound toward you; that ye, always having all sufficiency in all things, may abound to every good work: …

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Matthew 14
1. Herod's opinion of Jesus.
3. Wherefore John Baptist was beheaded.
13. Jesus departs into a solitary place,
15. where he feeds five thousand men with five loves and two fishes.
22. He walks on the sea to his disciples;
34. and landing at Gennesaret,
35. heals the sick who touch of the hem of his garment.














(21) Beside women and children.--St. Matthew is the only Evangelist who mentions their presence, but all the four use the word which emphasises the fact that all the five thousand were men. As the crowd had come in many cases from considerable distances, the women and children were probably few in number, were grouped together by themselves, and were not counted, so that the round number dwelt in men's minds without reference to them.

Verse 21. - And they that had eaten were about five thousand men, beside women and children. Only Matthew mentions the presence of other than men. We may assume that no great number of women and children were there; and this, considering the distance that most had been obliged to go (ver. 13), is what we should expect. "Observe here the diminutive παιδίων, little children, whom their mothers either carried in their arms or led by the hand" (Meyer).

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Greek
About
ὡσεὶ (hōsei)
Adverb
Strong's 5616: As if, as it were, like; with numbers: about. From hos and ei; as if.

five thousand
πεντακισχίλιοι (pentakischilioi)
Adjective - Nominative Masculine Plural
Strong's 4000: Five thousand. From pentakis and chilioi; five times a thousand.

men
ἄνδρες (andres)
Noun - Nominative Masculine Plural
Strong's 435: A male human being; a man, husband. A primary word; a man.

were
ἦσαν (ēsan)
Verb - Imperfect Indicative Active - 3rd Person Plural
Strong's 1510: I am, exist. The first person singular present indicative; a prolonged form of a primary and defective verb; I exist.

fed,
ἐσθίοντες (esthiontes)
Verb - Present Participle Active - Nominative Masculine Plural
Strong's 2068: Strengthened for a primary edo; used only in certain tenses, the rest being supplied by phago; to eat.

in addition to
χωρὶς (chōris)
Preposition
Strong's 5565: Apart from, separately from; without. Adverb from chora; at a space, i.e. Separately or apart from.

women
γυναικῶν (gynaikōn)
Noun - Genitive Feminine Plural
Strong's 1135: A woman, wife, my lady. Probably from the base of ginomai; a woman; specially, a wife.

and
καὶ (kai)
Conjunction
Strong's 2532: And, even, also, namely.

children.
παιδίων (paidiōn)
Noun - Genitive Neuter Plural
Strong's 3813: Neuter diminutive of pais; a childling, i.e., an infant, or a half-grown boy or girl; figuratively, an immature Christian.


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