What Does Numbers 7:75 Mean in the King James?

One young bullock, one ram, one lamb of the first year, for a burnt offering:

Numbers 7:75 · 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

Three distinct animals are gathered into one upward movement: an ascent-offering.

THE MEANING

The verse holds a bull, a ram, and a yearling lamb as distinct lives, then gathers them under one offering that rises. It names both the bodies given and the upward direction of the offering.

THE ROOT

עֹלָה

ʿōlāh an offering

GROWS FROM

עלה

ʿ-l-h

to rise, ascend, go up

The Hebrew name ⁨עֹלָה⁩ (ʿōlāh, an offering that rises) comes from ⁨עלה⁩ (ʿ-l-h, to rise or ascend). “Burnt offering” keeps the fire in view; the Hebrew word also names the offering’s upward movement.

ALSO GROWS

ʿaliyah: ascent, going up

עֲלִיָּה

This branch makes the upward motion in ⁨עֹלָה⁩ (ʿōlāh, an offering that rises) audible: what is offered goes up.

maʿalah: ascent, step or level upward

מַעֲלָה

This branch carries the same rising movement, connecting the animals named here to the offering’s upward direction.

THE PATTERN

An offering takes different forms, but each is placed toward God.

And Noah builded an altar unto the LORD; and took of every clean beast, and of every clean fowl, and offered burnt offerings on the altar.

Genesis 8:20 · KJVDistinct animals are offered on the altar, as in Numbers, and the Hebrew names the offering as one that rises.

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.

Romans 12:1 · KJVThe offering is embodied as a living sacrifice presented to God.

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.

Hebrews 13:15 · KJVPraise becomes an offering directed toward God.

THE THREAD

And Noah builded an altar unto the LORD; and took of every clean beast, and of every clean fowl, and offered burnt offerings on the altar.

Genesis 8:20 · KJV

The same Hebrew word ⁨עֹלָה⁩ (ʿōlāh, an offering that rises) names the burnt offerings in Genesis. Its root ⁨עלה⁩ (ʿ-l-h, to rise or ascend) lets you see the shared motion: distinct animal lives are given in the direction of rising.

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