What Does Numbers 28:16 Mean in the King James?

And in the fourteenth day of the first month is the passover of the LORD.

Numbers 28:16 · 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.

THE KEY

Passover names deliverance as the LORD passing over danger to preserve life.

THE MEANING

The LORD’s Passover stands at a marked place in the cycle of time, keeping deliverance present. Its name speaks of protection that carries life through danger, from constriction toward release.

THE ROOT

פֶּסַח

pesach

GROWS FROM

פסח

p-s-ḥ

To pass over or leap over; in the Passover texts, to spare and preserve.

“passover” in this verse is pesach. English gives the festival a name, but the Hebrew keeps the action inside it: pesach is bound to pasach, the act of passing over. The name therefore carries a movement of deliverance through danger, toward release.

ALSO GROWS

pasach: To pass over; in the Passover account, to spare.

פָּסַח

This verb names the preserving action that the festival noun recalls.

pesach: Passover; the appointed observance.

פֶּסַח

The observance carries the same root as the act of passing over, joining remembrance to deliverance.

THE PATTERN

The LORD’s deliverance is pictured as preserving life through danger and made present through the Passover.

And the blood shall be to you for a token upon the houses where ye are: and when I see the blood, I will pass over you, and the plague shall not be upon you to destroy you, when I smite the land of Egypt.

Exodus 12:13 · KJVThe verb “pass over” uses the same root as pesach, making the festival’s name and the act of preservation one movement.

As birds flying, so will the LORD of hosts defend Jerusalem; defending also he will deliver it; and passing over he will preserve it.

Isaiah 31:5 · KJVThe LORD’s passing over is directly paired with preserving, revealing the protective action carried in the name Passover.

Purge out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, as ye are unleavened. For even Christ our passover is sacrificed for us:

1 Corinthians 5:7 · KJVThe anointed one is called the Passover, connecting deliverance with the very name of the observance.

THE THREAD

As birds flying, so will the LORD of hosts defend Jerusalem; defending also he will deliver it; and passing over he will preserve it.

Isaiah 31:5 · KJV

Numbers names the day pesach; Isaiah uses the related verb pasach for the LORD’s act of preserving. The shared root reveals that the festival’s name holds the action itself: passing over to preserve.

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