What Does Numbers 7:40 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 word translated “sin offering” also names the missing itself, holding the rupture and its offering in one word.
THE MEANING
One goat is set apart for what the Hebrew term לְחַטָּאת (leḥaṭṭāʾt, for a sin offering) names as the missing. The verse gives what has gone wrong a definite place in the offering; it does not make the missing the whole person. What is missing can be named and addressed.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
“What is missing in me is too shameful to name or address.”
THE ROOT
לְחַטָּאת
leḥaṭṭāʾt
GROWS FROM
חטא
ḥṭʾ
to miss, fail, or go wrong
The Hebrew noun חַטָּאת (ḥaṭṭāʾt, missing / sin offering) names both what goes wrong and the offering associated with it. English separates these into “sin” and “sin offering,” while Hebrew keeps them in one word family.
ALSO GROWS
ḥāṭāʾ: to miss, fail, or do wrong
חָטָא
This verb shares the seed of the offering word, linking the act of missing with the offering named for it.
ḥaṭṭāʾt: missing; an offering for the missing, often rendered “sin offering”
חַטָּאת
The same noun names both the missing and its offering, joining what English divides.
THE PATTERN
The missing is named and met through an offering; where release is present, further offering is no longer needed.
If the priest that is anointed do sin according to the sin of the people; then let him bring for his sin, which he hath sinned, a young bullock without blemish unto the LORD for a sin offering.But if he be not able to bring two turtledoves, or two young pigeons, then he that sinned shall bring for his offering the tenth part of an ephah of fine flour for a sin offering; he shall put no oil upon it, neither shall he put any frankincense thereon: for it is a sin offering.Now where remission of these is, there is no more offering for sin.THE THREAD
But if he be not able to bring two turtledoves, or two young pigeons, then he that sinned shall bring for his offering the tenth part of an ephah of fine flour for a sin offering; he shall put no oil upon it, neither shall he put any frankincense thereon: for it is a sin offering.Both verses use חַטָּאת (ḥaṭṭāʾt, missing / sin offering). Leviticus gives that name to fine flour when birds are out of reach, showing that the offering’s link is to the missing being addressed, not to one particular animal.
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