What Does Numbers 7:41 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 Shelumiel the son of Zurishaddai.
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 peace offering and Shelumiel’s name share the root of wholeness, so peace belongs both to the gift and to the one who brings it.
THE MEANING
The verse holds before you peace with substance: an offering of wholeness, echoed in the name of the one bringing it. Here, peace reaches beyond a calm feeling to complete, restored well-being.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
Peace is only a calm mood or the absence of conflict.
THE ROOT
שְׁלָמִים
shelamim
GROWS FROM
שלם
sh-l-m
Be whole or complete; bring to completion or restore.
“peace offerings” in this verse is shelamim. The offering’s *shelamim* and Shelumiel (שְׁלֻמִיאֵל, Shelumiel, “God is my peace”) share the ש־ל־ם seed: wholeness names both the offering and the one presenting it. English “peace” can sound like a mood; the root holds completeness and restored well-being.
ALSO GROWS
shalom: Wholeness, well-being
שָׁלוֹם
This familiar word for peace shows the offering’s name holding a whole condition, not only quiet.
shalem: Whole, complete
שָׁלֵם
The same root describes completeness, so the offering’s peace carries the sense of wholeness.
shillem: Repay, make restitution
שִׁלֵּם
The root can also describe making good what is owed, carrying the sense of repair into restored wholeness.
THE PATTERN
Biblical peace is wholeness that takes form as offering, restored relation, and the joining of what is divided.
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.Mercy and truth are met together; righteousness and peace have kissed each other.For he is our peace, who hath made both one, and hath broken down the middle wall of partition between us;THE THREAD
Pray for the peace of Jerusalem: they shall prosper that love thee.The “peace” sought for Jerusalem is שָׁלוֹם (shalom, wholeness), from the same שׁלם root as *shelamim*, the peace offerings here. The thread runs from an offering of wholeness to a whole city: the root widens from the gift to the place.
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