What Does Numbers 10:6 Mean in the King James?
When ye blow an alarm the second time, then the camps that lie on the south side shall take their journey: they shall blow an alarm for their journeys.
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 second alarm turns sound into a departure cue, moving the southern camps at their appointed place in the sequence.
THE MEANING
When the second alarm sounds, the southern camps set out; the blast marks their place in an ordered movement. The signal tells this group that its turn to depart has arrived.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
An alarm here does not mean danger is already upon the camp; it cues the southern group’s departure.
THE ROOT
תְּרוּעָה
teruah
GROWS FROM
רוע
rua
Raise a shout or make a loud signal.
The alarm is also a teruah, a raised shout connected to the verb rua. That root also appears in a joyful outcry elsewhere; here, the surrounding moment gives the sound its function as a cue to move.
ALSO GROWS
rua: Raise a shout; cry out.
רוּעַ
This is the action beneath the signal named in the verse.
hari'u: Shout aloud; make a joyful noise.
הָרִיעוּ
Psalm 100:1 uses this form of the same root, showing how one raised sound can serve different purposes in different moments.
נָסְעוּ
nasa'u
GROWS FROM
נסע
nasa
Pull up and set out; journey.
“journey” in this verse is nasa'u. The verse uses this root both for the camps setting out and for their journeys. The repeated seed links this departure to the larger sequence of travel: each movement from camp belongs to an unfolding route.
ALSO GROWS
nasa: Set out; pull up and depart.
נָסַע
This verb names the southern camps’ departure.
massa: Journey; stage of a journey.
מַסָּע
The verse repeats this root in “their journeys,” tying this departure to the camps’ ongoing route.
THE PATTERN
A sounded signal gathers people into a shared response and marks a transition.
And it shall come to pass, that when they make a long blast with the ram’s horn, and when ye hear the sound of the trumpet, all the people shall shout with a great shout; and the wall of the city shall fall down flat, and the people shall ascend up every man straight before him.A Psalm of praise. Make a joyful noise unto the LORD, all ye lands.In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.THE THREAD
A Psalm of praise. Make a joyful noise unto the LORD, all ye lands.Psalm 100 uses the same Hebrew root רוע in “Make a joyful noise,” while Numbers names its sound a teruah, an alarm. The root holds together joyful acclaim and a mobilizing signal; here, the moment makes the outcry a cue for the southern camps to depart.
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