What Does Numbers 10:10 Mean in the King James?
Also in the day of your gladness, and in your solemn days, and in the beginnings of your months, ye shall blow with the trumpets over your burnt offerings, and over the sacrifices of your peace offerings; that they may be to you for a memorial before your God: I am the LORD your God.
The analysis reads the King James wording.
King James Version The King James Version, first published in 1611. Selah Verse shows the standard text.
THE KEY
The trumpet makes joy, sacred time, and offerings audible as a recurring remembrance before God.
THE MEANING
Your gladness, appointed days, and the beginnings of your months all enter the same sound: trumpets over offerings. These sounds and offerings become a remembrance for you before your God, holding celebration and solemn observance together. The closing words name the LORD as your God.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
The verse dissolves the idea that remembrance belongs only to solemn occasions: it includes gladness and each new month as well.
THE ROOT
זִכָּרוֹן
zikkaron
GROWS FROM
זכר
z-k-r
remember, call to mind
“memorial” in this verse is zikkaron. This word names remembrance itself, linking the trumpet and offerings to what is held in mind before God. Gladness and the beginnings of months enter this remembrance alongside solemn days.
ALSO GROWS
zakar: remember, call to mind
זָכַר
The verb shares the root and shows remembrance as an act, not only a marker.
azkarah: memorial portion of an offering
אַזְכָּרָה
This offering term shares the root, joining sacrificial practice with remembrance.
שְׁלָמִים
shelamim
GROWS FROM
שלם
sh-l-m
be whole or complete; bring to wholeness
“peace offerings” in this verse is shelamim. The name of these sacrifices shares its root with שָׁלוֹם (shalom), wholeness, and שָׁלֵם (shalem), complete. The language of wholeness sits in the same scene as joy, appointed time, and remembrance.
ALSO GROWS
shalom: wholeness, completeness
שָׁלוֹם
This familiar branch makes the offering’s root language of wholeness audible in the verse.
shalem: whole, complete
שָׁלֵם
This adjective shares the root and links the offering to the condition of being whole.
THE PATTERN
Recurring signs gather shared worship into remembrance.
Blow up the trumpet in the new moon, in the time appointed, on our solemn feast day.And when he had given thanks, he brake it, and said, Take, eat: this is my body, which is broken for you: this do in remembrance of me.THE THREAD
And this day shall be unto you for a memorial; and ye shall keep it a feast to the LORD throughout your generations; ye shall keep it a feast by an ordinance for ever.Exodus uses the same Hebrew noun זִכָּרוֹן (zikkaron), remembrance, for the feast itself. Numbers adds trumpet sound and offerings, showing how recurring worship gathers a moment into remembrance before God.
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