What Does Numbers 15:5 Mean in the King James?

And the fourth part of an hin of wine for a drink offering shalt thou prepare with the burnt offering or sacrifice, for one lamb.

Numbers 15:5 · KJV

The analysis reads the King James wording.

King James Version The King James Version, first published in 1611. Selah Verse shows the standard text.

This verse in the Selah Decoded Version

THE KEY

A lamb’s offering includes a second, measured shape: the wine is a pour joined to it.

THE MEANING

The verse speaks in concrete proportions: one lamb is accompanied by a measured pour of wine. What accompanies the lamb belongs to the offering’s form; the poured portion is part of the act.

WHAT THIS UNDOES

The lamb alone is the complete offering, and the accompanying portion is incidental.

THE ROOT

נֶסֶךְ

nesekh

GROWS FROM

נסך

n-s-k

to pour out; to cast by pouring

“drink offering” in this verse is nesekh. The Hebrew word ⁨נֶסֶךְ⁩ (nesekh) means a libation, a poured-out portion. The root keeps the act of pouring in view and links this measured wine to the lamb it accompanies.

ALSO GROWS

nasakh: to pour out; to pour as a libation

נָסַךְ

This verb names the action carried by the drink offering: the wine is given as a poured portion.

massekah: a cast or molten image

מַסֵּכָה

This word shares the root’s pouring-and-casting sense, showing how the same root describes both a libation poured out and metal shaped by pouring.

THE PATTERN

What is poured out can become an offering joined to a larger act of service.

And with the one lamb a tenth deal of flour mingled with the fourth part of an hin of beaten oil; and the fourth part of an hin of wine for a drink offering.

Exodus 29:40 · KJVA fixed measure of wine accompanies one lamb as part of the offering.

Yea, and if I be offered upon the sacrifice and service of your faith, I joy, and rejoice with you all.

Philippians 2:17 · KJVThe speaker describes himself as poured out in connection with the sacrifice and service of others’ faith.

For I am now ready to be offered, and the time of my departure is at hand.

2 Timothy 4:6 · KJVThe offering image appears as a present pouring-out as departure approaches.

THE THREAD

Yea, and if I be offered upon the sacrifice and service of your faith, I joy, and rejoice with you all.

Philippians 2:17 · KJV

The Greek verb ⁨σπένδομαι⁩ (spendomai, “to be poured out as a libation”) shares its root with ⁨σπονδή⁩ (spondē, “libation”), the Greek term for the drink offering in Numbers 15:5. Philippians carries the same poured-out offering into the image of a life joined to another’s service.

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