What Does Numbers 28:6 Mean in the King James?
It is a continual burnt offering, which was ordained in mount Sinai for a sweet savour, a sacrifice made by fire unto the LORD.
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 burnt offering is named for its ascent, so what this verse calls continual is an offering kept rising.
THE MEANING
The verse places you before a continual offering: what rises in fire is given again and again, its aroma described as pleasing. The Hebrew name olah carries the motion of going up, while the phrase for “sweet savour” draws on language associated with rest or settling. Rising and settling meet in the same offering.
THE ROOT
עֹלָה
ʿōlāh
GROWS FROM
עלה
To go up, rise, or ascend.
“burnt offering” in this verse is ʿōlāh. English gives this a name for a kind of sacrifice; Hebrew also keeps its movement visible: an olah is what goes up. Paired with “continual,” that ascent is presented as ongoing rather than isolated.
ALSO GROWS
ʿālāh: To go up or ascend.
עָלָה
This verb makes the upward motion inside the offering’s name explicit.
ʿaliyyah: An ascent; an upper room.
עֲלִיָּה
This noun carries the same root’s movement upward, echoing the rising image in olah.
רֵיחַ נִיחֹחַ
rēaḥ nîḥōaḥ
GROWS FROM
נוח
To rest or settle.
“sweet savour” in this verse is rēaḥ nîḥōaḥ. The phrase names an aroma as pleasing, while nîḥōaḥ is associated with נוח, “to rest” or “settle.” The verse holds two movements together: the offering rises, and its aroma settles as pleasing before the LORD.
ALSO GROWS
nûaḥ: To rest or settle.
נוּחַ
This verb carries the rest or settling associated with nîḥōaḥ.
menûḥāh: Rest; a resting place.
מְנוּחָה
This noun shows the same root extending into the idea of a place or state of rest.
THE PATTERN
A repeated offering rises toward God and is received as a pleasing aroma.
This shall be a continual burnt offering throughout your generations at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation before the LORD: where I will meet you, to speak there unto thee.And the LORD smelled a sweet savour; and the LORD said in his heart, I will not again curse the ground any more for man’s sake; for the imagination of man’s heart is evil from his youth; neither will I again smite any more every thing living, as I have done.And walk in love, as Christ also hath loved us, and hath given himself for us an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweetsmelling savour.THE THREAD
And Noah builded an altar unto the LORD; and took of every clean beast, and of every clean fowl, and offered burnt offerings on the altar.The same Hebrew word, עֹלָה (ʿōlāh), names the “burnt offerings” here and the offering in Numbers. Its root עלה means “to go up,” keeping the ascent inside both verses’ language for the offering.
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