What Does Numbers 29:25 Mean in the King James?
And one kid of the goats for a sin offering; beside the continual burnt offering, his meat offering, and his drink offering.
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 stands within a larger rhythm of rising, giving, and pouring out.
THE MEANING
The verse places the missing beside what continually rises, what is given, and what is poured out. The offering for the missing sits within a wider pattern of approach and giving.
THE ROOT
חַטָּאת
ḥaṭṭāʾt
GROWS FROM
חטא
To miss, err, or fail.
“sin offering” in this verse is ḥaṭṭāʾt. The Hebrew word-family holds both the missing and the offering named in relation to it. The offering’s name keeps it closely connected to what has missed.
ALSO GROWS
ḥāṭāʾ: To miss or do wrong.
חָטָא
This verb names the missing that the offering addresses.
ḥaṭṭāʾt: An offense or a sin offering.
חַטָּאת
The same word can name both the offense and the offering brought in relation to it.
עֹלָה
ʿōlāh
GROWS FROM
עלה
To go up or ascend.
The Hebrew name for the burnt offering comes from the root for ascending. Beside the offering for the missing, the verse sets what continually rises.
ALSO GROWS
ʿālāh: To go up or ascend.
עָלָה
This verb is the seed behind the offering’s name.
ʿăliyyāh: Ascent or going up.
עֲלִיָּה
This related noun keeps the image of rising audible in the verse’s sequence of offerings.
נֶסֶךְ
nēseḵ
GROWS FROM
נסך
To pour out.
“drink offering” in this verse is nēseḵ. The Hebrew term names the libation through the act of pouring. The verse’s final offering is therefore pictured as a poured-out gift.
ALSO GROWS
nāsak: To pour out or cast.
נָסַךְ
The verb reveals the action contained in the drink offering’s name.
nēseḵ: A libation or poured offering.
נֶסֶךְ
This noun names the poured offering that completes the verse’s sequence.
THE PATTERN
These passages frame an offering by its relation to the missing it addresses, the gifts beside it, or the work it completes.
If the priest that is anointed do sin according to the sin of the people; then let him bring for his sin, which he hath sinned, a young bullock without blemish unto the LORD for a sin offering.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.But this man, after he had offered one sacrifice for sins for ever, sat down on the right hand of God;THE THREAD
If the priest that is anointed do sin according to the sin of the people; then let him bring for his sin, which he hath sinned, a young bullock without blemish unto the LORD for a sin offering.Numbers 29:25 uses חַטָּאת for the offering, while Leviticus 4:3 repeats the חטא word-family for both the act of missing and the offering brought for it. The shared root holds the missing and its offering in one linguistic frame.
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