What Does Numbers 7:64 Mean in the King James?

One kid of the goats for a sin offering:

Numbers 7:64 · KJV

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 “sin offering” grows from the root meaning “to miss,” naming the goat by the missing it addresses.

THE MEANING

One goat is named as an offering for the missing. Its name keeps that missing in view as the offering is presented, and the verse gives the offering a specific form and measure: one goat.

THE ROOT

חַטָּאת

ḥaṭṭāʾt

GROWS FROM

חטא

To miss, go wrong, or sin.

The same three-letter root links ⁨חַטָּאת⁩ (ḥaṭṭāʾt, sin offering) with words for missing and for the act of missing. The offering’s name keeps its relation to the missing visible; the verse names both the gift and what it addresses.

ALSO GROWS

ḥāṭāʾ: To miss or sin.

חָטָא

This verb shares the root and shows the action behind the offering’s name.

ḥēṭ: Missing or sin.

חֵטְא

This noun names the missing itself, the same idea carried in the word for the offering.

ḥaṭṭāʾt: Sin, or an offering for sin, the offering for the missing.

חַטָּאת

This form names the offering in the verse and joins its purpose to the root meaning.

THE PATTERN

The offering is identified by what it addresses, whether its form is an animal, flour, or a single sacrifice.

And if he bring a lamb for a sin offering, he shall bring it a female without blemish.

Leviticus 4:32 · KJVA lamb is named as the sin offering, linking a different animal to the same stated purpose.

But if he be not able to bring two turtledoves, or two young pigeons, then he that sinned shall bring for his offering the tenth part of an ephah of fine flour for a sin offering; he shall put no oil upon it, neither shall he put any frankincense thereon: for it is a sin offering.

Leviticus 5:11 · KJVFine flour can also be brought as a sin offering, so the named purpose appears with another form.

But this man, after he had offered one sacrifice for sins for ever, sat down on the right hand of God;

Hebrews 10:12 · KJVOne sacrifice is named as being for sins, retaining the link between what is offered and what it addresses.

THE THREAD

And if he bring a lamb for a sin offering, he shall bring it a female without blemish.

Leviticus 4:32 · KJV

The same ⁨חַטָּאת⁩ (ḥaṭṭāʾt, offering for the missing) is paired here with a lamb. The shared root draws attention from the goat’s kind to what the offering is for.

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