What Does Numbers 7:46 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 for the offering also names the missing itself, binding the response to what it addresses.
THE MEANING
The missing has a specific place here: one kid of the goats is designated in relation to it. The Hebrew word for the offering also names the missing, holding the gap and its response in one word-family.
THE ROOT
חַטָּאת
chatat
GROWS FROM
חטא
chata
to miss, err, or fail to reach
The word translated “sin offering” comes from the same root that names missing. Hebrew keeps the missing and the offering for it within one word-family, where English gives them separate names.
ALSO GROWS
chet: missing; an offense
חֵטְא
This branch names the missing itself, the condition for which the offering is designated.
chote: one who misses or errs
חוֹטֵא
This branch names the one who misses, showing how the same root connects a person with the missing.
chatat: missing; an offering for the missing
חַטָּאת
This is the word used for the offering in the verse, carrying the name of what it addresses.
THE PATTERN
The missing is brought into relation with a named offering.
Or if his sin, which he hath sinned, come to his knowledge: then he shall bring his offering, a kid of the goats, a female without blemish, for his sin which he hath sinned.Yet it pleased the LORD to bruise him; he hath put him to grief: when thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin, he shall see his seed, he shall prolong his days, and the pleasure of the LORD shall prosper in his hand.But this man, after he had offered one sacrifice for sins for ever, sat down on the right hand of God;THE THREAD
Or if his sin, which he hath sinned, come to his knowledge: then he shall bring his offering, a kid of the goats, a female without blemish, for his sin which he hath sinned.Leviticus uses the same חטא (chata) word-family for the missing and for the offering brought in response. The repeated kid of the goats makes that shared root visible beneath the English.
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