What Does Numbers 28:29 Mean?
One tenth part for one lamb, throughout the seven lambs;
Key words are shown with the Hebrew or Greek and what each word meant.
Selah Decoded Version The Selah Decoded Version renders what the Hebrew and Greek words meant to the people who first heard them.
King James wording
King James Version
A several tenth deal unto one lamb, throughout the seven lambs;THE KEY
The repeated “tenth” assigns one measured portion to each lamb; the seven do not share a single tenth.
THE MEANING
The measure is one tenth for each lamb, repeated across all seven. The total takes shape through seven distinct, equal portions, each tied to one lamb.
THE ROOT
עִשָּׂרוֹן
issaron
GROWS FROM
עשר
ʿ-ś-r
ten; the number from which “tenth” is formed
“one tenth part” in this verse is issaron. The Hebrew repeats עִשָּׂרוֹן (issaron), “a tenth,” then assigns that measure to one lamb across all seven. The repeated unit makes the distribution visible: each lamb has its own tenth.
ALSO GROWS
ʿeser: ten
עֶשֶׂר
This is the number at the root of the measure repeated for each lamb.
maʿaser: tithe; a tenth portion
מַעֲשֵׂר
This related word also carries the idea of a tenth, showing how the root names a share measured from a whole.
THE PATTERN
A whole arrangement becomes concrete through a measured share assigned to each part.
And when they measured it with an omer, the one who gathered much had nothing over, and the one who gathered little had no lack. Each one gathered according to his eating.And to one he gave five talents, to another two, and to another one, to each according to his strength; and straightway he went on his journey.But the one and the same breath works all these, portioning to each one as it wills.THE THREAD
You shall truly give a tenth of all the yield of your seed, what the field brings forth year by year.The “tenth” in Numbers and “tithe” in Deuteronomy grow from עשר (ʿ-ś-r), “ten.” Numbers assigns the tenth lamb by lamb; Deuteronomy names the tenth as a share of the whole increase.
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