What Does Numbers 29:15 Mean?

And a tenth for each of the fourteen lambs.

Numbers 29:15 · SDV

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And a several tenth deal to each lamb of the fourteen lambs:

THE KEY

The tenth is counted out for each lamb, keeping every one distinct within the count of fourteen.

THE MEANING

Each of the fourteen lambs has a tenth-part measure assigned to it. The count and the portion stay paired, making the measure individual all the way through the group.

THE ROOT

עִשָּׂרוֹן

ʿissaron

GROWS FROM

עשר

ʿ-s-r

Ten, the count from which the word for a tenth-part measure is formed.

⁨עִשָּׂרוֹן⁩ (ʿissaron, “tenth-part measure”) grows from ⁨עשר⁩ (ʿ-s-r, “ten”). The Hebrew repeats the measure alongside “for each lamb,” making the tenth a defined unit apportioned to every animal.

ALSO GROWS

ʿeser: The number ten.

עֶשֶׂר

It reveals the counted base within the measured portion.

maʿaser: A tenth given as a tithe.

מַעֲשֵׂר

It carries the same ten-root into a distinct tenth-part set aside from a larger whole.

THE PATTERN

A shared provision is specified as a measured portion for each recipient.

This is the word which the LORD has commanded, Gather from it, each one according to his eating, an omer for each one, according to the number of your living souls. Take, each one, for those in his tents.

Exodus 16:16 · SDVThe portion is counted for each person, just as the tenth is measured for each lamb.

But the one and the same breath works all these, portioning to each one as it wills.

1 Corinthians 12:11 · SDVThe verse describes what is given as distributed to each person individually.

THE THREAD

And concerning the tenth of the herd or of the flock, even of whatever passes under the rod, the tenth is set apart to the LORD.

Leviticus 27:32 · SDV

The Hebrew ⁨מַעֲשֵׂר⁩ (maʿaser, “tithe”) shares the root ⁨עשר⁩ (ʿ-s-r, “ten”) with ⁨עִשָּׂרוֹן⁩ (ʿissaron, “tenth-part measure”). The same root names a measured tenth here and the flock’s tithe there.

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