What Does Numbers 7:22 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 root beneath “sin offering” holds both the missing and its ritual cleansing in the same word-family.
THE MEANING
The place where you miss is named as something real and specific, not as your whole identity. One young goat is set apart as an offering for it; the verse makes the response tangible.
THE ROOT
חַטָּאת
ḥaṭṭāʾt
GROWS FROM
חטא
To miss, miss the mark, or go wrong; in a ritual verb form, to cleanse or purge.
“sin offering” in this verse is ḥaṭṭāʾt. The noun חַטָּאת names both the missing and the offering for it. In the same root-family, חִטֵּא means to cleanse or purge, keeping what has gone wrong connected to its clearing.
ALSO GROWS
ḥeṭʾ: Missing, offense
חֵטְא
This branch names what the offering addresses: the place where something has gone wrong.
ḥiṭṭēʾ: To cleanse or purge
חִטֵּא
This ritual verb shares the root and shows the movement from the missing toward its clearing.
THE PATTERN
The missing becomes addressable when it is brought into the open and met with a means of release.
Or if his sin, which he hath sinned, come to his knowledge: then he shall bring his offering, a kid of the goats, a female without blemish, for his sin which he hath sinned.I acknowledged my sin unto thee, and mine iniquity have I not hid. I said, I will confess my transgressions unto the LORD; and thou forgavest the iniquity of my sin. Selah.If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.THE THREAD
I acknowledged my sin unto thee, and mine iniquity have I not hid. I said, I will confess my transgressions unto the LORD; and thou forgavest the iniquity of my sin. Selah.Psalm 32:5 uses the same חטא root for “my sin” and pairs naming it with release. Numbers gives that same missing a concrete form: one goat set apart for it.
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