What Does Numbers 29:4 Mean?
And a tenth for one lamb, throughout the seven lambs.
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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
And one tenth deal for one lamb, throughout the seven lambs:THE KEY
The sevenfold whole is built from one distinct measure per lamb; the count never erases each lamb’s share.
THE MEANING
One tenth deal is measured for each lamb, and that portion is repeated across all seven. The verse gives the offering as a countable relation: each lamb is named with its own measure.
THE ROOT
עִשָּׂרוֹן
issaron
GROWS FROM
ע-שׂ-ר
ʿ-ś-r
Ten; a count expressed in tens.
The measure comes from the root for ten: an issaron is a tenth-sized portion. Repeated for each lamb, this root makes the offering a series of individually measured shares, not one undivided amount for the group.
ALSO GROWS
ʿeser: Ten.
עֶשֶׂר
The number names the measure’s seed: each portion is one part in ten.
maʿaser: A tithe, a tenth.
מַעֲשֵׂר
This branch carries the same ten-root into a portion set apart as one tenth, echoing the verse’s precise measure.
THE PATTERN
Provision is described in relation to each recipient, with the share measured person by person.
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.One tenth part you shall bring near for every lamb, throughout the seven lambs.For if the leaning heart is there first, it is well received according to what one has, and not according to what one does not have.THE THREAD
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.The same ע-שׂ-ר (ʿ-ś-r, ten) root appears in the tenth measure named for one lamb. Here flour, oil, and wine are all measured alongside that lamb, revealing how the counted portion sits within a larger, carefully measured offering.
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