What Does Numbers 28:14 Mean in the King James?

And their drink offerings shall be half an hin of wine unto a bullock, and the third part of an hin unto a ram, and a fourth part of an hin unto a lamb: this is the burnt offering of every month throughout the months of the year.

Numbers 28:14 · KJV

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THE KEY

The rite holds two motions together: the wine is poured out, and the offering goes up.

THE MEANING

Here, the offering is precisely proportioned: the wine portion shifts with the animal, and the sequence returns each month through the year. The Hebrew word for month also carries the sense of newness, so each recurrence holds repetition and beginning together.

THE ROOT

נִסְכֵּיהֶם

niskēhem

GROWS FROM

נסך

to pour out, especially as a libation

“drink offerings” in this verse is niskēhem. The noun for the wine portion grows from the verb for pouring it out. The root keeps the offering as an action: what is set apart here is literally what gets poured.

ALSO GROWS

nasak: to pour out a libation

נָסַךְ

The verb names the act contained in the noun for the drink offering.

massekah: cast-metal image; poured casting

מַסֵּכָה

The root’s sense of pouring also applies to metal poured into a mold, revealing its concrete physical core.

חֹדֶשׁ

chodesh

GROWS FROM

חדש

to be new, to renew

The word for month is tied to newness and the new moon. The offering recurs, yet the word itself marks each interval as new.

ALSO GROWS

chadash: new

חָדָשׁ

This adjective shares the root that gives the month its sense of newness.

chiddesh: to renew, make new

חִדֵּשׁ

This verb carries the root’s renewing sense into an action.

עֹלָה

olah

GROWS FROM

עלה

to go up, ascend

The Hebrew name for the burnt offering comes from the verb ‘to go up.’ Beside the poured libation, it gives the verse a paired shape: the wine is poured out while the main offering rises.

ALSO GROWS

alah: to go up, ascend

עָלָה

This verb is the root action held within the name of the offering.

maʿalah: ascent, step

מַעֲלָה

This noun carries the same upward movement into a way of rising.

THE PATTERN

A poured portion gives tangible form to devotion alongside a larger act of offering.

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 · KJVThe wine is measured and poured alongside the lamb, just as the drink offering accompanies the animal here.

And Jacob set up a pillar in the place where he talked with him, even a pillar of stone: and he poured a drink offering thereon, and he poured oil thereon.

Genesis 35:14 · KJVA poured drink offering gives a visible form to an act of devotion.

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 language of pouring out appears as a life given alongside the community’s offering and service.

THE THREAD

And Jacob set up a pillar in the place where he talked with him, even a pillar of stone: and he poured a drink offering thereon, and he poured oil thereon.

Genesis 35:14 · KJV

Numbers uses the noun ⁨נֶסֶךְ⁩ (nesekh), meaning a poured libation; Genesis uses a verb from the same root when Jacob pours one out. The shared root links the measured, recurring offering with a single act of encounter.

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