What Does Numbers 29:10 Mean in the King James?

A several tenth deal for one lamb, throughout the seven lambs:

Numbers 29:10 · 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

The sevenfold offering is a whole made from seven distinct, equal shares, each measured for its own lamb.

THE MEANING

Each lamb has its own tenth measure, and that measure repeats across all seven. The offering stays countable as seven distinct shares within one whole.

THE ROOT

עִשָּׂרוֹן

issaron

GROWS FROM

עשר

ʿ-s-r

ten; a tenth part

“tenth deal” in this verse is issaron. The Hebrew names the measure through the root for ten, so this is a counted fraction. The repeated tenth makes the whole offering visible portion by portion, rather than as one unmarked mass.

ALSO GROWS

ʿeser: ten

עֶשֶׂר

This is the root’s basic number, showing the tenth measure belongs to a countable whole.

maʿaser: tithe; a tenth

מַעֲשֵׂר

This related word names a tenth share too, echoing how each lamb receives its own measured portion.

THE PATTERN

A shared whole becomes countable when a measured portion is assigned to each part.

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 offering is specified through a measured flour portion attached to one lamb.

This is the thing which the LORD hath commanded, Gather of it every man according to his eating, an omer for every man, according to the number of your persons; take ye every man for them which are in his tents.

Exodus 16:16 · KJVThe gathered provision is apportioned by a stated measure for each person.

Upon the first day of the week let every one of you lay by him in store, as God hath prospered him, that there be no gatherings when I come.

1 Corinthians 16:2 · KJVEach person sets aside a share in keeping with what they have received.

THE THREAD

Now an omer is the tenth part of an ephah.

Exodus 16:36 · KJV

Exodus makes the fraction behind the tenth measure explicit. The shared root ⁨עשר⁩ (ʿ-s-r), meaning ten, shows the lambs’ portions as measured tenths rather than an unspecified amount.

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