What Does Numbers 7:29 Mean in the King James?
And for a sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five he goats, five lambs of the first year: this was the offering of Eliab the son of Helon.
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’s name carries the root of wholeness, so peace takes shape in this counted gift.
THE MEANING
The verse gives wholeness a visible form: two oxen, five rams, five he goats, and five yearling lambs are named as one peace offering. Here, peace is expressed through a concrete offering, not left as an abstraction.
THE ROOT
שְׁלָמִים
shelamim
GROWS FROM
שׁלם
sh-l-m
To be whole, complete, or sound.
“peace offerings” in this verse is shelamim. The root that names these offerings also names wholeness and what is complete. That shared seed lets the verse hold peace as wholeness within the concrete gift Eliab brings.
ALSO GROWS
shalom: Wholeness, well-being.
שָׁלוֹם
This familiar word shares the offering’s root, letting its name resonate with wholeness.
shalem: Whole, complete, intact.
שָׁלֵם
This form gives the same root a direct sense of completeness, deepening what the offering’s name carries.
THE PATTERN
Wholeness takes visible form through offerings, healing, and embodied devotion.
And if his oblation be a sacrifice of peace offering, if he offer it of the herd; whether it be a male or female, he shall offer it without blemish before the LORD.But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed.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.THE THREAD
But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed.The Hebrew word behind “peace” here comes from the same root as the “peace offerings” in Numbers: שָׁלוֹם (shalom), meaning wholeness. The shared root joins the offering’s name to Isaiah’s language of healing and restoration.
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