What Does Numbers 29:1 Mean in the King James?
And in the seventh month, on the first day of the month, ye shall have an holy convocation; ye shall do no servile work: it is a day of blowing the trumpets unto you.
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 trumpet day is a day of teruah, a shared shout that calls the community out of ordinary work and into a set-apart threshold.
THE MEANING
The calendar becomes audible: a shared blast interrupts ordinary work and gathers you into a set-apart moment. Sacred time reaches you as sound and pause, not only as an idea. The gathering and the stopping of labor make room for the summons.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
A sacred day has to be earned through productive effort; here it is marked by stopping work and receiving a summons.
THE ROOT
תְּרוּעָה
teruʿah
GROWS FROM
רוע
To shout or raise a loud sound.
“blowing the trumpets” in this verse is teruʿah. The verse calls this a day of teruʿah: a sound that publicly marks a threshold. The word can name a shout or an alarm blast, so the day’s summons is heard, shared, and impossible to mistake for ordinary quiet.
ALSO GROWS
hariʿu: Shout aloud; raise a cry.
הָרִיעוּ
This verbal form shows the sound as an act of calling out, not merely noise in the background.
teruʿah: A shout, alarm blast, or acclamation.
תְּרוּעָה
This noun names the sound that marks the day and summons the community together.
מִקְרָא
miqra
GROWS FROM
קרא
To call, summon, or proclaim.
A convocation is a gathering shaped by a call. Joined to קֹדֶשׁ (qodesh, set-apart), the phrase names a set-apart summons: people stop their ordinary work and meet in response to it.
ALSO GROWS
qaraʾ: Call, summon, or proclaim.
קָרָא
The gathering begins with a call that reaches people beyond their private routines.
miqra: A called assembly or public reading.
מִקְרָא
The word for convocation carries the act of calling within the gathering itself.
THE PATTERN
A shared sound marks a threshold by calling people out of ordinary activity into encounter.
Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, In the seventh month, in the first day of the month, shall ye have a sabbath, a memorial of blowing of trumpets, an holy convocation.And it came to pass on the third day in the morning, that there were thunders and lightnings, and a thick cloud upon the mount, and the voice of the trumpet exceeding loud; so that all the people that was in the camp trembled.For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first:THE THREAD
God is gone up with a shout, the LORD with the sound of a trumpet.The Hebrew word for “shout” here is תְּרוּעָה (teruʿah), the same word that names the day in Numbers. One verse makes that sound the summons of a set-apart day; the other joins it to God’s ascent, revealing the blast as an announcement of movement.
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