What Does Numbers 29:11 Mean in the King James?
One kid of the goats for a sin offering; beside the sin offering of atonement, and the continual burnt offering, and the meat offering of it, and their drink offerings.
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 offering for the missing is set beside atonement and the continual offering, keeping repair, covering, and ongoing devotion distinct yet joined.
THE MEANING
The verse gives the missing its own place beside the atonement offering and the continual offering. It holds repair, covering, and ongoing devotion together without collapsing them into one act.
THE ROOT
חַטָּאת
chatat
GROWS FROM
חטא
to miss, fail, or fall short
The word for “sin offering” grows from the same root as the word for missing: the offering is named for what has gone astray. English separates the failure from the offering that addresses it; Hebrew keeps them joined in one word.
ALSO GROWS
chata: to miss or fail
חָטָא
The verb names the action behind the missing addressed by the offering.
chet: a missing or failure
חֵטְא
This noun makes visible the shared seed between the failure and the sin offering.
כִּפֻּרִים
kippurim
GROWS FROM
כפר
to cover
The atonement word carries the root sense of covering. Set beside the offering named for the missing, it shows two related but distinct movements: the missing is addressed, and covering is made.
ALSO GROWS
kofer: a covering or ransom
כֹּפֶר
This branch carries the same covering root into the idea of a covering payment.
kapporet: covering; the cover of the ark, traditionally called the mercy seat
כַּפֹּרֶת
The cover’s name shares the seed of atonement, making the covering connection concrete.
THE PATTERN
The missing is addressed through a distinct act of covering or cleansing.
And Aaron shall make an atonement upon the horns of it once in a year with the blood of the sin offering of atonements: once in the year shall he make atonement upon it throughout your generations: it is most holy unto the LORD.A Psalm of David, Maschil. Blessed is he whose transgression is forgiven, whose sin is covered.If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.THE THREAD
For on that day shall the priest make an atonement for you, to cleanse you, that ye may be clean from all your sins before the LORD.Here כִּפֶּר (khipper, covers or makes atonement) and חַטֹּאת (chattoʾt, missings or sins) meet in one sentence. Numbers 29:11 sets the offering for the missing beside the atonement offering; this verse names the covering as directed toward those very missings.
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