What Does Numbers 7:68 Mean in the King James?
One golden spoon of ten shekels, full of incense:
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 “spoon” is a כַּף (kaph, palm or hollow of the hand), so the incense is held in a cupped hand before it rises.
THE MEANING
The verse holds a measured portion of incense in a golden כַּף (kaph, palm or hollow of the hand). Its name, קְטֹרֶת (qetoret, incense), comes from קטר (qatar, to burn incense or make smoke), so what is held is already named by its rising.
THE ROOT
כַּף
kaph
GROWS FROM
כפף
To bend or curve.
כַּף (kaph, palm or hollow of the hand) is linked to כָּפַף (kaphaph, to bend or curve). The word translated “spoon” carries the shape of a curved palm: a hollow that receives before anything rises.
ALSO GROWS
kaph: Palm, hollow of the hand, or spoon.
כַּף
The spoon in the verse is a hollow vessel, like a cupped palm holding what will rise.
kaphaph: To bend, curve, or bow.
כָּפַף
The curved shape behind the word for spoon links the vessel to the hollow of a hand.
קְטֹרֶת
qetoret
GROWS FROM
קטר
To burn incense or make smoke.
English names the substance, while קְטֹרֶת (qetoret, incense) carries the action of קָטַר (qatar, to burn incense or make smoke). The offering is held in a כַּף (kaph, palm or hollow of the hand), poised to rise as smoke.
ALSO GROWS
qetoret: Incense.
קְטֹרֶת
This is the verse’s word for the substance filling the golden spoon.
qatar: To burn incense or make smoke.
קָטַר
The verb reveals the rising movement contained in the name of the incense.
THE PATTERN
Incense rises as an offering before God and is repeatedly paired with prayer and lifted hands.
And Aaron shall burn thereon sweet incense every morning: when he dresseth the lamps, he shall burn incense upon it.Let my prayer be set forth before thee as incense; and the lifting up of my hands as the evening sacrifice.And another angel came and stood at the altar, having a golden censer; and there was given unto him much incense, that he should offer it with the prayers of all saints upon the golden altar which was before the throne.THE THREAD
Let my prayer be set forth before thee as incense; and the lifting up of my hands as the evening sacrifice.The word קְטֹרֶת (qetoret, incense) shares the root קטר (qatar, to make smoke or burn incense) with Numbers 7:68. The phrase כַּפָּי (kappay, my palms) echoes כַּף (kaph, palm or spoon): lifted hands and rising incense bring the vessel and what it holds into one image.
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