What Does Numbers 7:25 Mean in the King James?
His offering was 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 for “mingled” shares a root with confusion, yet here the mixture is carefully measured and made into one offering.
THE MEANING
Here, approach takes a material shape: measured silver vessels hold fine flour and oil blended together as a gift. Weight, food, and mixture all belong to the offering; none of it is abstract.
THE ROOT
בְּלוּלָה
belulah
GROWS FROM
בלל
Belulah means “mingled”; its root, balal, means “to mix, mingle, or confound.”
“mingled” in this verse is belulah. The same root can describe mixing that confuses, but here the blending has a measured purpose: distinct flour and oil become one prepared gift. Genesis 11:9 plays the name Babel (בָּבֶל, Bavel) against balal, letting the language hold both confusion and mixture in view.
ALSO GROWS
balal: To mix, mingle, or confound.
בָּלַל
This verb is the seed of belulah and carries the joining of ingredients into a single mixture.
belil: Mixed grain or fodder.
בְּלִיל
Isaiah 30:24 uses this related word for prepared feed, another mixture made for nourishment.
Babel: Babel; Genesis 11:9 connects the name by wordplay with balal, “to confuse.”
בָּבֶל
The echo shows how mixture can blur distinctions; here, the same root describes ingredients purposefully blended.
מִשְׁקָלָהּ
mishqalah
GROWS FROM
שקל
Mishqalah means “its weight”; shaqal means “to weigh.”
The Hebrew words for “weight” and “shekel” belong to the same root of weighing. The verse repeats that root around the sanctuary measure, joining the gift’s value to a shared standard.
ALSO GROWS
shaqal: To weigh.
שָׁקַל
This verb names the act behind the vessel’s stated weight.
sheqel: A shekel, a unit of weight.
שֶׁקֶל
The sanctuary shekel is the measure against which the vessels’ weight is given.
THE PATTERN
What is offered is gathered into a visible form and set before God, whether it takes the shape of food, prayer, or praise.
And if thou bring an oblation of a meat offering baken in the oven, it shall be unleavened cakes of fine flour mingled with oil, or unleavened wafers anointed with oil.Let my prayer be set forth before thee as incense; and the lifting up of my hands as the evening sacrifice.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
And unleavened bread, and cakes unleavened tempered with oil, and wafers unleavened anointed with oil: of wheaten flour shalt thou make them.Numbers uses בְּלוּלָה (belulah, “mingled”) for flour blended with oil; Exodus uses the same root, בלל (balal, “to mix”), in “tempered with oil.” The shared root makes the blending itself part of both offerings: the flour and oil are joined in the preparation.
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