What Does Numbers 7:76 Mean in the King James?

One kid of the goats for a sin offering:

Numbers 7:76 · 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” also names the missing itself, holding the wrong and its offering in one word.

THE MEANING

The verse gives the missing a name and a tangible form: one kid of the goats is offered for it. What can sound abstract in English appears here as something specific and brought forward.

THE ROOT

חַטָּאת

chatta't

GROWS FROM

חטא

To miss, fail, or go wrong.

⁨חַטָּאת⁩ (chatta’t) can name both the missing and the offering associated with it. English separates those into “sin” and “sin offering”; the Hebrew word keeps them in the same family.

ALSO GROWS

chata: To miss or go wrong; also, to sin.

חָטָא

In Judges 20:16, this root describes slingers who could cast a stone “and not miss,” giving the word a concrete sense of missing its mark.

chatta't: The wrong itself, or an offering associated with that wrong.

חַטָּאת

It is the same word used here, bringing the missing and the offering for it together in one term.

THE PATTERN

The missing is named through a concrete offering, while the text also asks what that offering can remove.

Or if his sin, wherein he hath sinned, come to his knowledge; he shall bring his offering, a kid of the goats, a male without blemish:

Leviticus 4:23 · KJVA kid of the goats is brought when the missing comes to awareness, much as the offering is named concretely here.

And he shall bring his trespass offering unto the LORD for his sin which he hath sinned, a female from the flock, a lamb or a kid of the goats, for a sin offering; and the priest shall make an atonement for him concerning his sin.

Leviticus 5:6 · KJVThe verse makes the link between the missing and a goat offering explicit.

For it is not possible that the blood of bulls and of goats should take away sins.

Hebrews 10:4 · KJVThe goat and the missing appear together again, while this verse presses the question of whether the offering removes the missing.

THE THREAD

Among all this people there were seven hundred chosen men lefthanded; every one could sling stones at an hair breadth, and not miss.

Judges 20:16 · KJV

The Hebrew word translated “not miss” is ⁨יַחֲטִא⁩ (yachati), from the same root ⁨חטא⁩ (chata) behind ⁨חַטָּאת⁩ (chatta’t), “sin offering.” The root joins a stone missing its mark with the missing named in this verse.

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