What Does Numbers 28:8 Mean in the King James?
And the other lamb shalt thou offer at even: as the meat offering of the morning, and as the drink offering thereof, thou shalt offer it, a sacrifice made by fire, of a sweet savour 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 Hebrew behind “sweet savour” shares its root with “rested,” so the evening offering rises as an aroma of settling before the LORD.
THE MEANING
The day’s close sits within a repeated pattern of approach: the evening lamb is presented with grain and drink, as in the morning. The fire offering is called a pleasing aroma, with a Hebrew word carrying the sense of soothing or settling. The evening hour is held inside a recurring rhythm of presentation before the LORD.
THE ROOT
רֵיחַ נִיחֹחַ
re'ach nichoach
GROWS FROM
נוח
nun-vav-ḥet
To rest, settle, or come to rest.
“sweet savour” in this verse is re'ach nichoach. The word נִיחֹחַ (nichoach, soothing or pleasing) is linked to נוח (nuach, to rest or settle). The phrase רֵיחַ נִיחֹחַ (re’ach nichoach, an aroma of soothing) gives the offering’s pleasing scent a resonance of settling and rest.
ALSO GROWS
menuchah: Rest; resting place.
מְנוּחָה
This noun makes the root’s sense of settling concrete as rest or a place of rest, close to the soothing quality of nichoach.
vat-tanakh: And it rested; used of the ark in Genesis 8:4.
וַתָּנַח
The ark’s resting and the offering’s soothing aroma share the root נוח, joining two scriptural images of coming to rest.
THE PATTERN
Offerings presented to God are repeatedly described as a pleasing aroma.
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.But his inwards and his legs shall he wash in water: and the priest shall burn all on the altar, to be a burnt sacrifice, an offering made by fire, of a sweet savour unto the LORD.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 the ark rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, upon the mountains of Ararat.נִיחֹחַ (nichoach, soothing or pleasing) in רֵיחַ נִיחֹחַ (re’ach nichoach, an aroma of soothing) is linked to נוח (nuach, to rest or settle), the root used when Genesis says the ark “rested.” That shared root lets the evening offering’s aroma and the ark’s landing echo one another through the language of settling.
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