What Does Numbers 7:13 Mean in the King James?
And his offering was one silver charger, the weight thereof was an hundred and thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them were full of fine flour mingled with oil for a meat 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 word for offering carries the sense of drawing near, so every weighed vessel and prepared ingredient gives approach a material form.
THE MEANING
This verse places nearness in tangible things: the silver has weight, while the flour and oil fill the vessels. The offering is not abstract; its name describes what is brought near.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
It loosens the assumption that drawing near is only inward or intangible; here, approach also takes the form of weighed, prepared material.
THE ROOT
קָרְבָּנוֹ
qorbano
GROWS FROM
ק־ר־ב
To approach or draw near; in a causative form, to bring near.
The Hebrew word for this offering is formed from the language of approach: it is what is brought near. That root gives the measured silver and flour mingled with oil a second dimension, the offering is both substance and movement toward closeness.
ALSO GROWS
qarav: Approach; come near.
קָרַב
The verb makes visible the movement held inside the word for offering.
hiqრივ: Bring near; present or offer.
הִקְרִיב
This causative form names the act of bringing something close, linking the gift to the offering’s root.
qarov: Near; close.
קָרוֹב
This related form describes the closeness toward which the offering’s movement points.
THE PATTERN
Approach is expressed through concrete offerings, whether material gifts or spoken praise.
And Abel, he also brought of the firstlings of his flock and of the fat thereof. And the LORD had respect unto Abel and to his offering:And when any will offer a meat offering unto the LORD, his offering shall be of fine flour; and he shall pour oil upon it, and put frankincense thereon:By him therefore let us offer the sacrifice of praise to God continually, that is, the fruit of our lips giving thanks to his name.THE THREAD
But ye say, If a man shall say to his father or mother, It is Corban, that is to say, a gift, by whatsoever thou mightest be profited by me; he shall be free.Mark preserves the same Hebrew offering-word, קָרְבָּן (qorbān, a gift brought near), in the form κορβᾶν (korban, a gift dedicated to God). Its use exposes a tension: a thing named as given to God can be invoked to withhold help from a parent.
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