What Does Numbers 29:19 Mean in the King James?
And one kid of the goats for a sin offering; beside the continual burnt offering, and the meat offering thereof, 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 Hebrew names an offering for the missing and an offering that rises as distinct motions held together in one continual rhythm.
THE MEANING
The verse gives the offering for what misses its own place beside the continual burnt offering, with the accompanying meal and drink offerings also named. What misses is neither confused with what continually rises nor removed from the larger rhythm; each remains distinct in the same line.
THE ROOT
חַטָּאת
ḥaṭṭāʾt
GROWS FROM
חטא
ḥ-ṭ-ʾ
To miss or go wrong.
English makes “sin” and “sin offering” sound like separate ideas, but חַטָּאת names the missing and, in this ritual setting, the offering associated with it. The verse gives that missing a place beside the continual offering.
ALSO GROWS
ḥāṭāʾ: To miss or do wrong.
חָטָא
This verb shows the act held inside the offering’s name: something has missed its mark.
ḥeṭ: A miss or wrongdoing.
חֵטְא
This noun names the result of missing, sharing the root with the offering named in the verse.
עֹלָה
ʿōlāh
GROWS FROM
עלה
ʿ-l-h
To rise or go up.
The Hebrew name of the burnt offering means “that which rises.” Set beside the offering for the missing, it leaves two motions visible in one line: the missing is named, while what continues rises.
ALSO GROWS
ʿālāh: To rise or go up.
עָלָה
The verb gives the basic motion contained in the name of the burnt offering.
ʿaliyah: An ascent or going up.
עֲלִיָּה
This noun from the same root makes the upward motion in the offering’s name easier to see.
THE PATTERN
Scripture names the offering for the missing as a distinct category within a wider language of sacrifice.
And one kid of the goats for a sin offering unto the LORD shall be offered, beside the continual burnt offering, and his drink offering.Sacrifice and offering thou didst not desire; mine ears hast thou opened: burnt offering and sin offering hast thou not required.Above when he said, Sacrifice and offering and burnt offerings and offering for sin thou wouldest not, neither hadst pleasure therein; which are offered by the law;THE THREAD
Sacrifice and offering thou didst not desire; mine ears hast thou opened: burnt offering and sin offering hast thou not required.Numbers pairs חַטָּאת (ḥaṭṭāʾt, offering for the missing) with עֹלָה (ʿōlāh, that which rises); Psalm 40 uses the same two Hebrew words for “sin offering” and “burnt offering.” It places that pair beside an opened ear, widening the line from what is offered to what is perceived.
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