What Does Numbers 29:4 Mean in the King James?

And one tenth deal for one lamb, throughout the seven lambs:

Numbers 29:4 · 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 sevenfold whole is built from one distinct measure per lamb; the count never erases each lamb’s share.

THE MEANING

One tenth deal is measured for each lamb, and that portion is repeated across all seven. The verse gives the offering as a countable relation: each lamb is named with its own measure.

THE ROOT

עִשָּׂרוֹן

issaron

GROWS FROM

ע-שׂ-ר

ʿ-ś-r

Ten; a count expressed in tens.

“one tenth deal” in this verse is issaron. The measure comes from the root for ten: an issaron is a tenth-sized portion. Repeated for each lamb, this root makes the offering a series of individually measured shares, not one undivided amount for the group.

ALSO GROWS

ʿeser: Ten.

עֶשֶׂר

The number names the measure’s seed: each portion is one part in ten.

maʿaser: A tithe, a tenth.

מַעֲשֵׂר

This branch carries the same ten-root into a portion set apart as one tenth, echoing the verse’s precise measure.

THE PATTERN

Provision is described in relation to each recipient, with the share measured person by person.

This is the thing which the LORD hath commanded, Gather of it every man according to his eating, an omer for every man, according to the number of your persons; take ye every man for them which are in his tents.

Exodus 16:16 · KJVThe portion is measured according to each person’s eating and counted for each one.

A several tenth deal shalt thou offer for every lamb, throughout the seven lambs:

Numbers 28:21 · KJVThe same tenth measure is assigned to every lamb, making the individual share explicit.

For if there be first a willing mind, it is accepted according to that a man hath, and not according to that he hath not.

2 Corinthians 8:12 · KJVWhat is given is considered in relation to what each person has.

THE THREAD

And with the one lamb a tenth deal of flour mingled with the fourth part of an hin of beaten oil; and the fourth part of an hin of wine for a drink offering.

Exodus 29:40 · KJV

The same ⁨ע-שׂ-ר⁩ (ʿ-ś-r, ten) root appears in the tenth measure named for one lamb. Here flour, oil, and wine are all measured alongside that lamb, revealing how the counted portion sits within a larger, carefully measured offering.

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