Numbers 21:9
Parallel Strong's
Berean Study Bible
So Moses made a bronze snake and mounted it on a pole. If anyone who was bitten looked at the bronze snake, he would live.

Young's Literal Translation
And Moses maketh a serpent of brass, and setteth it on the ensign, and it hath been, if the serpent hath bitten any man, and he hath looked expectingly unto the serpent of brass—he hath lived.

King James Bible
And Moses made a serpent of brass, and put it upon a pole, and it came to pass, that if a serpent had bitten any man, when he beheld the serpent of brass, he lived.

Hebrew
So Moses
מֹשֶׁה֙ (mō·šeh)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 4872: Moses -- a great Israelite leader, prophet and lawgiver

made
וַיַּ֤עַשׂ (way·ya·‘aś)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 6213: To do, make

a bronze
נְחֹ֔שֶׁת (nə·ḥō·šeṯ)
Noun - feminine singular
Strong's 5178: Copper, something made of that metal, coin, a fetter, base

snake
נְחַ֣שׁ (nə·ḥaš)
Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's 5175: A serpent

and mounted
וַיְשִׂמֵ֖הוּ (way·śi·mê·hū)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular | third person masculine singular
Strong's 7760: Put -- to put, place, set

it on
עַל־ (‘al-)
Preposition
Strong's 5921: Above, over, upon, against

a pole.
הַנֵּ֑ס (han·nês)
Article | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 5251: A flag, a sail, a flagstaff, a signal, a token

If
אִם־ (’im-)
Conjunction
Strong's 518: Lo!, whether?, if, although, Oh that!, when, not

anyone who
אִ֔ישׁ (’îš)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 376: A man as an individual, a male person

was bitten
נָשַׁ֤ךְ (nā·šaḵ)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 5391: To strike with a, sting, to oppress with usury

looked
וְהִבִּ֛יט (wə·hib·bîṭ)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Hifil - Conjunctive perfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 5027: To scan, look intently at, to regard

at
אֶל־ (’el-)
Preposition
Strong's 413: Near, with, among, to

the bronze
הַנְּחֹ֖שֶׁת (han·nə·ḥō·šeṯ)
Article | Noun - feminine singular
Strong's 5178: Copper, something made of that metal, coin, a fetter, base

serpent,
הַנָּחָשׁ֙ (han·nā·ḥāš)
Article | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 5175: A serpent

he would recover.
וָחָֽי׃ (wā·ḥāy)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive perfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 2425: To live, to revive

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           
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