What Does Numbers 7:77 Mean in the King James?
And for a sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five he goats, five lambs of the first year: this was the offering of Pagiel the son of Ocran.
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 “peace offering” carries the root of wholeness, and Pagiel’s name carries an encounter with God, placing this gift where completeness and meeting converge.
THE MEANING
Your wholeness is not an abstraction here; it takes shape in a concrete gift set before God. The offering’s name gathers the language of completeness, while Pagiel’s name holds the language of encounter with God. The counted animals make that expression tangible.
THE ROOT
שְׁלָמִים
shelamim
GROWS FROM
שׁלם
sh-l-m
to be whole or complete
The word translated “peace offerings” belongs to the same root family as wholeness and completeness. English leaves that family less visible, but the Hebrew names this gift through the language of well-being made whole.
ALSO GROWS
shalom: peace, wholeness, well-being
שָׁלוֹם
This is the familiar word for peace, showing that the offering and the state of wholeness share a root.
shalem: whole, complete
שָׁלֵם
This branch makes the root’s sense of completeness explicit and illuminates what the offering’s name carries.
פַּגְעִיאֵל
Pagiel
GROWS FROM
פגע
p-g-ʿ
to meet, encounter, or come upon
Pagiel’s name joins פגע (pagaʿ, “meet” or “encounter”) with אֵל (El, “God”), carrying the sense of an encounter with God. Beside the offering named through wholeness, the giver’s name places this gift within a meeting.
ALSO GROWS
pāgaʿ: to meet, encounter, or come upon
פָּגַע
This is the root carried in Pagiel’s name, giving the name its sense of encounter.
yafgiʿa: he intercedes or makes encounter
יַפְגִּיעַ
This form appears in the language of intercession, showing how encounter can also mean reaching toward another.
THE PATTERN
An offering gives tangible form to a relationship with God by bringing something before him.
And if his oblation be a sacrifice of peace offering, if he offer it of the herd; whether it be a male or female, he shall offer it without blemish before the LORD.I will offer to thee the sacrifice of thanksgiving, and will call upon the name of the LORD.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.THE THREAD
Depart from evil, and do good; seek peace, and pursue it.Psalm 34:14 uses שָׁלוֹם (shalom, “peace” or “wholeness”), from the same שׁלם (sh-l-m) root carried by שְׁלָמִים (shelamim, “peace offerings”). The shared root joins the offering named here with wholeness as something sought and pursued.
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