What Does Numbers 29:26 Mean in the King James?

And on the fifth day nine bullocks, two rams, and fourteen lambs of the first year without spot:

Numbers 29:26 · 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

Here, wholeness is not an abstraction: it is named as a condition within an exact count.

THE MEANING

The verse holds measure and condition together: nine bulls, two rams, and fourteen yearling lambs are counted, with the lambs named as whole. You encounter devotion described through particulars rather than as an indistinct gesture.

THE ROOT

תְּמִימִם

temimim

GROWS FROM

תמם

To be complete or whole.

The Hebrew word ⁨תְּמִימִם⁩ (temimim), rendered “without spot,” grows from ⁨תמם⁩, the root of being whole or complete. This root can describe an offering’s condition and a person’s integrity, opening the verse’s detail into a wider language of wholeness.

ALSO GROWS

tamim: Whole, complete, without defect.

תָּמִים

The same form describes Abraham’s way before God in Genesis 17:1, extending the root from an offering’s condition to a person’s life before God.

tom: Integrity, wholeness.

תֹּם

This noun carries the root’s sense of completeness into character; the verse’s “without spot” belongs to the same word family as integrity.

THE PATTERN

An offering is described through both its exact measure and the wholeness of what is presented.

Your lamb shall be without blemish, a male of the first year: ye shall take it out from the sheep, or from the goats:

Exodus 12:5 · KJVThe Passover lamb is specified by age and by its unblemished condition.

And whosoever offereth a sacrifice of peace offerings unto the LORD to accomplish his vow, or a freewill offering in beeves or sheep, it shall be perfect to be accepted; there shall be no blemish therein.

Leviticus 22:21 · KJVThe offering is named as perfect and without blemish, echoing the wholeness named here.

But with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot:

1 Peter 1:19 · KJVThe lamb image carries the unblemished-offering pattern into the description of Christ.

THE THREAD

And when Abram was ninety years old and nine, the LORD appeared to Abram, and said unto him, I am the Almighty God; walk before me, and be thou perfect.

Genesis 17:1 · KJV

Numbers uses the plural form of ⁨תָּמִים⁩ (tamim), “whole,” for the lambs; Genesis uses the same root in “be thou perfect.” The shared root names both an offering’s condition and a person’s way before God.

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