What Does Numbers 7:19 Mean in the King James?
He offered for his offering one silver charger, the weight whereof was an hundred and thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them 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 Hebrew word for “offering” carries the act of drawing near within it.
THE MEANING
Here, drawing near takes a concrete shape: flour and oil fill silver vessels, and their weights are named. The offering makes approach visible through what is brought near.
THE ROOT
קָרְבָּנוֹ
qorbano
GROWS FROM
קרב
q-r-b
to approach, come near
The word for the offering holds the movement of drawing near inside it. Its branches also reach toward what is near and what is within, so approach is more than a thing handed over: it brings something into the midst.
ALSO GROWS
qarav: to approach, come near
קָרַב
This verb names the movement carried within qorbano: the offering is bound to approach.
qarov: near
קָרוֹב
The root links the offering to nearness itself, not only to the object presented.
qerev: the interior, the midst
קֶרֶב
This branch extends the root’s sense from nearness toward what is within or brought into the midst.
בְּלוּלָה
belulah
GROWS FROM
בלל
b-l-l
to mix, mingle; in another biblical use, to confound
“mingled” in this verse is belulah. The flour and oil are joined by a word whose range also appears in Genesis’s description of language being confounded at Babel. Here the mixture is purposeful: distinct ingredients are brought together as one offering.
ALSO GROWS
balal: to mix or mingle
בָּלַל
This verb names what happens to the flour and oil in the verse.
Bavel: Babel; the name is linked in Genesis 11:9 to the confounding of language
בָּבֶל
The shared word-shape shows how mixing can describe either a composed offering here or confused speech in Genesis.
THE PATTERN
Approach becomes visible through what is brought near, whether a tangible gift or a heart turned toward God.
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:But it is good for me to draw near to God: I have put my trust in the Lord GOD, that I may declare all thy works.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
But it is good for me to draw near to God: I have put my trust in the Lord GOD, that I may declare all thy works.“Offering” in Numbers and “draw near” in this psalm share the Hebrew root קרב (q-r-b), meaning to approach or come near. The root makes the vessel’s contents part of an act of nearness, not merely a gift.
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