What Does Numbers 6:14 Mean in the King James?
And he shall offer his offering unto the LORD, one he lamb of the first year without blemish for a burnt offering, and one ewe lamb of the first year without blemish for a sin offering, and one ram without blemish for peace 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 word for offering is built from the root for drawing near, so this list holds approach, the missing, and wholeness together.
THE MEANING
The LORD is approached through distinct offerings: one that rises, one for the missing, and offerings named for wholeness. Each animal is without blemish, while one offering names what is missing. The verse holds these elements together in one movement of approach.
THE ROOT
קָרְבָּן
qorban
GROWS FROM
קרב
q-r-b
draw near; approach
The word translated “offering” carries the root of coming near: a qorban is something brought close. The same root appears in words for “near,” connecting the offering here with nearness itself.
ALSO GROWS
qarab: approach; bring near
קָרַב
This verb names the movement carried inside the word for offering.
qarov: near
קָרוֹב
The same root links an offering brought near with the state of being near.
חַטָּאת
chatat
GROWS FROM
חטא
ḥ-ṭ-ʾ
miss; fail; err
The word for the sin offering grows from the root of missing. The shared seed keeps the offering connected to the missing it names, within the same approach as the other offerings.
ALSO GROWS
chata: miss; fail; err
חָטָא
This verb carries the action named by the offering.
chet: missing; failure
חֵטְא
This noun shows the same root naming the missing itself.
שְׁלָמִים
shelamim
GROWS FROM
שלם
sh-l-m
be whole; be complete
The word translated “peace offerings” belongs to the same root family as words for being whole and complete. English “peace” can sound like only an absence of conflict; this root also carries the sense of wholeness.
ALSO GROWS
shalom: wholeness
שָׁלוֹם
This familiar branch makes the wholeness within the offerings’ name audible.
shalem: whole; complete
שָׁלֵם
This branch gives the offerings’ root its sense of intactness and completion.
THE PATTERN
Approach to the LORD holds the missing and wholeness together through distinct offerings.
Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, If any man of you bring an offering unto the LORD, ye shall bring your offering of the cattle, even of the herd, and of the flock.The LORD is nigh unto them that are of a broken heart; and saveth such as be of a contrite spirit.Let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and our bodies washed with pure water.THE THREAD
The LORD is nigh unto them that are of a broken heart; and saveth such as be of a contrite spirit.The Hebrew word translated “nigh” is קָרוֹב (qarov, near), from the same root קרב as קָרְבָּן (qorban, offering). The offering here and the LORD’s nearness there share the root of drawing near.
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