What Does Numbers 29:32 Mean in the King James?

And on the seventh day seven bullocks, two rams, and fourteen lambs of the first year without blemish:

Numbers 29:32 · 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 word rendered “without blemish” also means whole, so the offering is measured by its integrity as well as its number.

THE MEANING

The verse names an exact offering: seven bullocks, two rams, and fourteen yearling lambs, each whole. Its count and its condition belong together; what is brought is both measured and intact.

WHAT THIS UNDOES

It undoes the idea that naming the quantity is enough: the verse also names the condition of what is offered.

THE ROOT

תְּמִימִם

temimim

GROWS FROM

תמם

tamam

to be complete, whole, or sound

“without blemish” in this verse is temimim. The word here is a plural form of ⁨תָּמִים⁩ (tamim), meaning whole or sound. Its root carries a positive sense of completeness: the offering is described as intact, not merely as lacking a visible flaw.

ALSO GROWS

tamim: whole, complete, sound; unblemished

תָּמִים

This is the singular form of the word used for the animals, showing that “without blemish” carries the sense of being whole.

tom: integrity, completeness

תֹּם

This related noun shows the root’s reach beyond physical soundness to integrity.

THE PATTERN

Scripture names wholeness as a defining quality of what is offered or set before God.

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 lamb’s wholeness is named alongside its age and kind, just as the offering here is defined by both condition and count.

Thou shalt be perfect with the LORD thy God.

Deuteronomy 18:13 · KJVThe same Hebrew root names wholeness in a person’s relation to God, extending the pattern beyond an animal offering.

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

1 Peter 1:19 · KJVThe image of an unblemished lamb carries the language of wholeness into the New Testament.

THE THREAD

Thou shalt be perfect with the LORD thy God.

Deuteronomy 18:13 · KJV

The word translated “without blemish” here and “perfect” there comes from ⁨תמם⁩ (tamam), meaning to be complete or whole. The same root describes the offering’s soundness and the reader’s wholeness with God.

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