Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Numbers 36:11
For Mahlah, Tirzah, and Hoglah, and Milcah, and Noah, the daughters of Zelophehad, were married unto their father’s brothers’ sons:
11. In accordance with the law, the five women were married to the sons of their paternal uncles.
Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
Verse 11. Mahlah, Tirza, &c.] For a curious account of these names, See Clarke on Nu 27:7.
Fuente: Adam Clarke’s Commentary and Critical Notes on the Bible
It is certain whether brothers or sons be taken strictly and properly, or more large, as those words are oft used in Scripture.
Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole
For Mahlah, Tirzah, and Hoglah, and Milcah, and Noah,…. The names of the daughters of Zelophehad, and the same as in
Nu 26:33, only the order a little varied, Tirzah and Noah here changing places; there they are according to their birth, here they are according to their marriage, as Aben Ezra thinks; though Jarchi is of opinion, that being thus differently placed shows that they were equal to one another, and one was not preferred to the other:
these were married unto their father’s brothers’ sons; so that they were first cousins.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
(11) Were married unto their fathers brothers sons.Better, unto the sons of their near kinsmen. The word dod generally denotes an uncle on the fathers side, and probably does so in the present case; but in Jer. 32:12 it seems to denote a cousin.
Fuente: Ellicott’s Commentary for English Readers (Old and New Testaments)
Num 36:11 For Mahlah, Tirzah, and Hoglah, and Milcah, and Noah, the daughters of Zelophehad, were married unto their father’s brothers’ sons:
Ver. 11. For Mahlah, Tirzah, and Hoglah, &c. ] The name of these virgins, as one interpreter a elsewhere observeth, seem to be not without mystery. For Zelophehad, by interpretation, signifieth the shadow of fear or of dread: his first daughter, Mahlah, infirmity; the second, Noah, wandering; the third, Hoglah, turning about for joy, or dancing; the fourth, Milcah, a queen; the fifth, Tirzah, well-pleasing, or acceptable. By these names we may observe the degrees of our reviving by grace in Christ; for we all are born, as of the shadow of fear, being brought forth in sin, and “for fear of death were all our lifetime subject to bondage.” Heb 2:15 This begetteth infirmity, or sickness, grief of heart for our estate. After which, wandering abroad for help and comfort, we find it in Christ, by whom our “sorrow is turned into joy.” He communicates to us of his royalty, making us “kings and priests unto God his Father”; and we shall be presented unto him glorious, “and without blemish.” Eph 5:27 So the Church is beautiful as Tirzah. Son 6:4
a Mr Ainsworth.
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
Num 27:1
Reciprocal: 1Ch 2:34 – but daughters