What Does Numbers 7:55 Mean in the King James?
His offering was one silver charger of the weight of 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 Hebrew root behind “mingled” also echoes Babel’s confusion, joining deliberate blending and bewilderment in one word.
THE MEANING
You meet the offering in its measured, material form: silver vessels hold flour joined with oil. The ingredients become one prepared mixture, while their weight and substance remain part of the gift.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
The sacred must be detached from material things; here, silver, grain, oil, weight, and preparation all belong within the offering.
THE ROOT
בְּלוּלָה
belulah
GROWS FROM
בלל
To mix or mingle; the same root can also carry the sense of confounding.
English makes “mingled” sound like a cooking detail, but the Hebrew echoes Babel’s “confound.” The root can describe mixture that becomes confusion or ingredients deliberately brought together; here, the mixing is purposeful and makes a prepared offering.
ALSO GROWS
bālal: To mix, mingle, or confound.
בָּלַל
This verb is the root of “mingled” here and is used for the confounding of language at Babel.
Bāvel: Babel; Genesis 11:9 links its name with the verb for confounding.
בָּבֶל
The name carries the same sound-play as “mingled,” revealing a Hebrew connection English renders with different words.
THE PATTERN
Distinct parts can be deliberately joined into one prepared offering or shared whole.
And if thy oblation be a meat offering baken in a pan, it shall be of fine flour unleavened, mingled with oil.And with the one lamb a tenth deal of flour mingled with the fourth part of an hin of beaten oil; and the fourth part of an hin of wine for a drink offering.For we being many are one bread, and one body: for we are all partakers of that one bread.THE THREAD
Therefore is the name of it called Babel; because the LORD did there confound the language of all the earth: and from thence did the LORD scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth.The same root appears in this verse’s mingling of flour with oil and in Genesis’s “confound” at Babel. Here the mixing makes a prepared offering; at Babel, it makes language unintelligible, so one Hebrew root holds both outcomes.
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