What Does Numbers 28:7 Mean?
And its poured offering shall be a fourth part of a hin for the one lamb, and in the set-apart place you shall cause the heady drink to be poured out to the LORD as a poured offering.
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King James wording
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And the drink offering thereof shall be the fourth part of an hin for the one lamb: in the holy place shalt thou cause the strong wine to be poured unto the LORD for a drink offering.THE KEY
The Hebrew names both the drink offering and its pouring from one root, making the act of pouring part of what the gift is.
THE MEANING
One lamb is paired with a defined measure: a fourth part of an hin of strong wine. That wine is poured in the set-apart place unto the LORD. The verse holds amount, place, and pouring together as one offering.
THE ROOT
נֶסֶךְ
nesekh
GROWS FROM
נסך
n-s-k
to pour out; pour as a libation
“poured offering” in this verse is nesekh. The drink offering and the act of pouring belong to one Hebrew word-family. English presents them as separate ideas, while the root joins the gift to the act that gives it form.
ALSO GROWS
nasakh: to pour out; pour a libation
נָסַךְ
The verse uses this verb-family for causing the wine to be poured, joining its action to the offering’s name.
nesekh: a poured libation; drink offering
נֶסֶךְ
This is the noun used for the offering, carrying the sense of pouring within the gift itself.
שֵׁכָר
shekar
GROWS FROM
שכר
sh-k-r
to become drunk; be intoxicated
“heady drink” in this verse is shekar. Shekar names a potent, intoxicating drink. The verse gives that potency a defined measure and a set-apart destination.
ALSO GROWS
shakhar: to become intoxicated; be drunk
שָׁכַר
The verb shows the force carried by the drink named in the verse.
shikkor: an intoxicated person; a drunkard
שִׁכּוֹר
This branch makes visible the drink’s effect, while the verse specifies its measured use as an offering.
קֹדֶשׁ
qodesh
GROWS FROM
קדש
q-d-sh
to set apart; make distinct for a purpose
“set-apart place” in this verse is qodesh. The place is set apart for this act. Its location belongs to the offering’s form: measured wine is poured in a space marked for that purpose.
ALSO GROWS
qadosh: set apart; sacred
קָדוֹשׁ
This adjective expresses the quality that marks the place in the verse.
miqdash: sanctuary; set-apart place
מִקְדָּשׁ
This branch names a place set aside, showing how the root can shape both a space and its use.
THE PATTERN
An offering takes shape through a measured gift poured out before God.
With the one lamb, a tenth of an ephah of fine flour mixed with a fourth of a hin of crushed oil, and a fourth of a hin of wine for a poured offering.But even if I am poured out upon the offering and service of your trust, I rejoice, and rejoice together with you all.THE THREAD
And you shall prepare a fourth of a hin of wine for a poured offering with the rising offering or sacrifice, for one lamb.Numbers 15:5 uses the same root נסך (n-s-k, pour out) for the wine’s drink offering. The shared word-family carries the action of pouring within the offering’s name.
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