What Does Numbers 7:49 Mean in the King James?
His offering was one silver charger, the weight whereof was an hundred and thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mingled with oil for a meat 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 offering is something brought near, so the weighed vessels and prepared food make approach visible.
THE MEANING
Here, your approach to God takes material shape: silver has weight, flour has fullness, and oil is mingled through it. What is brought near appears as a prepared, measured gift, not a vague intention.
THE ROOT
קָרְבָּנוֹ
qorbano
GROWS FROM
קרב
qarav
to draw near, approach
The noun belongs to the same root as קָרַב (qarav, to draw near) and הִקְרִיב (hiqriyv, to bring near). The verse lets offering carry an additional sense: a measured thing brought near, with approach made visible in its weight and contents.
ALSO GROWS
qarav: to draw near, approach
קָרַב
This verb shows the movement held inside the word for offering: something comes near.
qarov: near, close
קָרוֹב
This related word names nearness as a state, connecting the presented gift with closeness.
hiqriyv: to bring near, present
הִקְרִיב
This causative form makes the offering’s action explicit: a gift is brought near.
בְּלוּלָה
belulah
GROWS FROM
בלל
balal
to mix, mingle, confound
The word for mingled comes from בָּלַל (balal, to mix or confound), a root that can describe both deliberate blending and confusion. Here the mixture is prepared nourishment; Genesis 11:9 uses the same root in its wordplay on בָּבֶל (Bavel, Babel), where mingling becomes confusion.
ALSO GROWS
balal: to mix, mingle, confound
בָּלַל
This verb is the action contained in the flour mingled with oil.
belil: mixed fodder, provender
בְּלִיל
This related noun names a prepared mixture, echoing the food blended for the offering.
Bavel: Babel
בָּבֶל
Genesis 11:9 links this name by Hebrew wordplay to confusion through the same root, showing how mingling can become disorder.
THE PATTERN
What is brought near takes tangible form in what is presented.
And when any will offer a meat offering unto the LORD, his offering shall be of fine flour; and he shall pour oil upon it, and put frankincense thereon: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.By him therefore let us offer the sacrifice of praise to God continually, that is, the fruit of our lips giving thanks to his name.THE THREAD
Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, If any man of you bring an offering unto the LORD, ye shall bring your offering of the cattle, even of the herd, and of the flock.The same Hebrew noun for offering appears here, carrying the sense of something brought near. Numbers makes that approach visible in measured silver and prepared grain; Leviticus makes the bringing-near of the gift explicit.
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