What Does Numbers 7:47 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 Eliasaph the son of Deuel.
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” carries the root of wholeness, while “offering” carries movement toward nearness: here, wholeness is brought close in concrete abundance.
THE MEANING
Wholeness reaches into your material life: it is more than private calm, taking visible form in gathered abundance brought near. The counted animals make that movement tangible.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
Peace is only an inward feeling, untouched by material life or shared provision.
THE ROOT
שְׁלָמִים
shelamim
GROWS FROM
שׁ־ל־ם
sh-l-m
To be whole or complete; to make sound or whole.
“peace offerings” in this verse is shelamim. English can make “peace” sound like an emotion, while שְׁלָמִים (shelamim, wholeness offerings) belongs to a root of being whole and making whole. Its branches include what is complete and what is made good or repaid, so the verse’s “peace” carries the possibility of restored integrity rather than mere quiet.
ALSO GROWS
shalom: Wholeness, well-being
שָׁלוֹם
This familiar branch makes the offering’s name resonate with wholeness, not simply calm.
shalem: Whole, complete
שָׁלֵם
The offering’s root holds the idea of an intact state within the word translated “peace.”
shillem: Repay, make good
שִׁלֵּם
This branch connects wholeness with making good what is due or restoring what is lacking.
קָרְבָּן
qorbān
GROWS FROM
ק־ר־ב
q-r-b
To approach or draw near.
English names the item as an “offering,” while the Hebrew word also carries movement toward nearness. Beside shelamim, the verse presents wholeness as something brought close through what is offered.
ALSO GROWS
qarav: Approach, come near
קָרַב
The verb makes the offering’s movement explicit: it is an approach toward nearness.
qarov: Near, close
קָרוֹב
This branch shows the closeness already held inside the offering’s root.
THE PATTERN
Wholeness takes visible form when what is gathered comes near and separation gives way to shared life.
Then Jacob offered sacrifice upon the mount, and called his brethren to eat bread: and they did eat bread, and tarried all night in the mount.And the flesh of the sacrifice of his peace offerings for thanksgiving shall be eaten the same day that it is offered; he shall not leave any of it until the morning.For he is our peace, who hath made both one, and hath broken down the middle wall of partition between us;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 phrase translated “our peace” is שְׁלוֹמֵנוּ (shelomenu, “our wholeness”), from the same שׁ־ל־ם root as the “peace offerings” here. Isaiah sets that wholeness beside wounding and healing, opening the offering’s name beyond calm to restored integrity.
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