What Does Numbers 7:27 Mean in the King James?

One young bullock, one ram, one lamb of the first year, for a burnt offering:

Numbers 7:27 · KJV

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 offering is named by its movement: what is laid on the altar rises.

THE MEANING

The verse sets before God a precise, embodied gift: one young bull, one ram, and one year-old lamb. Its Hebrew word for burnt offering carries the movement of ascent, so the gift is not only counted; it is pictured rising.

THE ROOT

עֹלָה

ʿōlāh

GROWS FROM

עלה

To go up, rise, ascend.

The Hebrew word translated “burnt offering” is ⁨עֹלָה⁩ (ʿōlāh), from ⁨עָלָה⁩ (ʿālāh), “to ascend.” The word names the offering by its upward movement, linking the concrete animals to a gift pictured rising before God.

ALSO GROWS

ʿālāh: To go up, ascend.

עָלָה

This verb is the seed of ⁨עֹלָה⁩, so the offering’s name carries the motion of rising.

ʿăliyyāh: Ascent, going up.

עֲלִיָּה

This related noun keeps the same upward movement visible beyond sacrificial language.

THE PATTERN

An offering moves from a named gift to something presented before God.

And Noah builded an altar unto the LORD; and took of every clean beast, and of every clean fowl, and offered burnt offerings on the altar.

Genesis 8:20 · KJVThe gift reaches the altar as a burnt offering, carrying the movement of ascent.

If his offering be a burnt sacrifice of the herd, let him offer a male without blemish: he shall offer it of his own voluntary will at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation before the LORD.

Leviticus 1:3 · KJVThe offering is a concrete animal brought and presented before the LORD.

I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.

Romans 12:1 · KJVThe image of offering reaches the whole body, presented as a living sacrifice.

THE THREAD

And Noah builded an altar unto the LORD; and took of every clean beast, and of every clean fowl, and offered burnt offerings on the altar.

Genesis 8:20 · KJV

Genesis uses the same Hebrew word, ⁨עֹלָה⁩ (ʿōlāh), from ⁨עָלָה⁩ (ʿālāh), “to ascend.” The word itself pictures the gift rising, so the animals listed in Numbers form a concrete ascent before God.

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