What Does Numbers 7:16 Mean in the King James?
One kid of the goats for a sin 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 Hebrew word for “sin offering” shares its root with “missing,” holding the failure and the offering for it in one word-family.
THE MEANING
The verse places the missing and its offering together: one goat is given for what has gone wrong. The failure is named, and the response has a concrete form.
THE ROOT
חַטָּאת
chatta’t
GROWS FROM
חטא
To miss or go wrong
“sin offering” in this verse is chatta’t. The offering’s Hebrew name grows from the same root as the verb for missing or going wrong. The word-family holds what has gone wrong together with the offering brought for it.
ALSO GROWS
chata’: To miss, err, or go wrong
חָטָא
This verb shares the offering’s root, tying the offering to what has gone wrong.
chet: A missing or fault
חֵטְא
This noun names the missing that the related offering addresses.
THE PATTERN
What has gone wrong is named, and an offering is set apart in response.
But the flesh of the bullock, and his skin, and his dung, shalt thou burn with fire without the camp: it is a sin offering.But this man, after he had offered one sacrifice for sins for ever, sat down on the right hand of God;THE THREAD
And if he bring a lamb for a sin offering, he shall bring it a female without blemish.The phrase “sin offering” here is the same Hebrew word, חַטָּאת (chatta’t), rooted in חטא (chata’), “to miss or go wrong.” The animal changes from goat to lamb, while the word-family keeps the offering tied to the missing it addresses.
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