What Does Numbers 7:53 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 Elishama the son of Ammihud.
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 is shelamim, a word rooted in wholeness, so peace arrives here as a tangible gift with weight and number.
THE MEANING
Wholeness here has weight and number: two oxen and fifteen more animals form the offering. Elishama means “God hears,” placing the nature of being heard beside the shelamim offering named for wholeness. This gives the verse a present image of being heard and met with wholeness.
THE ROOT
שְׁלָמִים
shelamim
GROWS FROM
שלם
sh-l-m
To be whole or complete; to make good or restore.
“peace offerings” in this verse is shelamim. English “peace” can sound like an inward feeling, while shelamim belongs to a root that also names completeness and making good. The offering’s name holds peace together with restored wholeness.
ALSO GROWS
shalom: Wholeness, peace.
שָׁלוֹם
The same root opens the offering’s name into a wider picture of wholeness.
shillem: Repaid, compensated, made good.
שִׁלֵּם
This branch shows the root can carry the sense of restoring what is owed, as well as being whole.
אֱלִישָׁמָע
Elishama
GROWS FROM
שמע
To hear, listen, or give heed.
Elishama carries the nature “God hears.” Beside the offering named for wholeness, the verse holds being heard and wholeness together.
ALSO GROWS
shama: Hear, listen, respond.
שָׁמַע
The name’s hearing root gives the donor’s name a meaning beyond identification.
shemuah: A report or message; what is heard.
שְׁמוּעָה
This related word shows hearing as something received and carried onward.
THE PATTERN
Wholeness becomes visible through tangible gifts and the joining of what was 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
Mercy and truth are met together; righteousness and peace have kissed each other.The word translated “peace” here is shalom (שָׁלוֹם), from the same root שלם as shelamim in Numbers. The offering’s name opens into this relational image: wholeness appears where mercy and truth meet.
This reading is from Selah Verse.
You can read any verse this way in the app, keep it as a card, and send it on.
A Bible app where you send verses from your keyboard and in Messages, and every verse has a Deep Dive.
Does something in this reading look wrong? Tell us