What Does Numbers 7:28 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 word for “sin offering” also names the missing itself, so the verse makes the answer carry the name of what it addresses.
THE MEANING
The verse names one kid of the goats as an offering for the missing. In Hebrew, the word translated “sin offering” also names the missing itself, holding what is addressed and its offering together in one word. Here that offering has a concrete form.
THE ROOT
חַטָּאת
ḥaṭṭāʾt
GROWS FROM
חטא
To miss; to miss the mark.
“sin offering” in this verse is ḥaṭṭāʾt. The same Hebrew noun can name both the missing and the offering brought for it. The word keeps them joined, and this verse gives the offering a concrete form: one kid of the goats.
ALSO GROWS
ḥāṭāʾ: To miss; to sin.
חָטָא
The offering’s name grows from the same root as the verb for missing.
ḥēṭʾ: Missing; sin.
חֵטְא
This noun keeps the root’s sense of missing visible within the word translated “sin.”
THE PATTERN
The missing is named and met with an answer that addresses it.
And if he bring a lamb for a sin offering, he shall bring it a female without blemish.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.But this man, after he had offered one sacrifice for sins for ever, sat down on the right hand of God;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.The Hebrew word translated “sin” in Psalm 32:5 grows from the same חטא (ḥ-ṭ-ʾ, to miss) root as the offering named here. Numbers gives the missing a named offering; Psalm shows that same missing brought into the open and released.
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