What Does Numbers 28:11 Mean in the King James?
And in the beginnings of your months ye shall offer a burnt offering unto the LORD; two young bullocks, and one ram, seven lambs of the first year without spot;
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
A new month opens as an act of drawing near, and its offering rises.
THE MEANING
At the beginning of each month, you draw near to the LORD through the appointed offering; that offering also bears the image of what rises. The verse makes the calendar’s turning a recurring act of nearness and ascent.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
A new month is merely a neutral date change; this verse marks the threshold through approach to the LORD.
THE ROOT
תַּקְרִיבוּ
taqrivu
GROWS FROM
קרב
q-r-b
approach, draw near
The verb behind “offer” carries the movement of approach, and the related noun korban is a thing brought near. The month’s opening is held in the language of renewed nearness to the LORD.
ALSO GROWS
qarov: near
קָרוֹב
The shared root links the act of offering with the state of being near.
qorban: offering, a thing brought near
קָרְבָּן
This noun names what is brought near, making the root’s movement visible.
חָדְשֵׁיכֶם
ḥodsheikhem
GROWS FROM
חדש
ḥ-d-š
be new, renew
“months” in this verse is ḥodsheikhem. The word for “month” belongs to the root for newness and renewal. The calendar’s repeated turn carries the sound of beginning again.
ALSO GROWS
ḥadash: new
חָדָשׁ
This adjective shares the root that names the month’s new beginning.
ḥiddesh: renew, make new
חִדֵּשׁ
This verb makes explicit the renewal carried in the month’s name.
ḥodesh: month, new moon
חֹדֶשׁ
The calendar word itself carries the root’s association with newness.
עֹלָה
ʿolah
GROWS FROM
עלה
ʿ-l-h
go up, ascend
Olah is named from the verb “go up” or “ascend,” giving the burnt offering an image of rising. Beside “draw near,” the verse sets approach and ascent together at each new month.
ALSO GROWS
ʿalah: go up, ascend
עָלָה
This verb is the movement at the root of the offering’s name.
ʿaliyyah: ascent, going up
עֲלִיָּה
This related noun preserves the same upward movement.
THE PATTERN
The new moon is a recurring threshold woven into a larger rhythm of appointed observance.
Blow up the trumpet in the new moon, in the time appointed, on our solemn feast day.And in the day of the new moon it shall be a young bullock without blemish, and six lambs, and a ram: they shall be without blemish.Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of an holyday, or of the new moon, or of the sabbath days:THE THREAD
Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me.The word translated “renew” comes from the same root, חדש (ḥ-d-š), that forms “month” in Numbers. Numbers marks newness on the calendar; this verse carries that same root inward, as a request for renewal within.
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