What Does Numbers 7:16 Mean?
One kid of the goats, as an offering for falling short.
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
One kid of the goats for a sin offering:THE KEY
The Hebrew word for “sin offering” shares its root with “missing,” holding the failure and the offering for it in one word-family.
THE MEANING
The verse places the missing and its offering together: one goat is given for what has gone wrong. The failure is named, and the response has a concrete form.
THE ROOT
חַטָּאת
chatta’t
GROWS FROM
חטא
To miss or go wrong
“as an offering for falling short” in this verse is chatta’t. The offering’s Hebrew name grows from the same root as the verb for missing or going wrong. The word-family holds what has gone wrong together with the offering brought for it.
ALSO GROWS
chata’: To miss, err, or go wrong
חָטָא
This verb shares the offering’s root, tying the offering to what has gone wrong.
chet: A missing or fault
חֵטְא
This noun names the missing that the related offering addresses.
THE PATTERN
What has gone wrong is named, and an offering is set apart in response.
But the flesh of the young bull, and his skin, and his dung, you burn with fire outside the camp. It is an offering for falling short.But this one, after bringing near one slain offering for shortcomings, sat down without break at the right hand of God.THE THREAD
And if he brings his drawing near, a lamb, for the offering for falling short, he brings a female without blemish.The phrase “sin offering” here is the same Hebrew word, חַטָּאת (chatta’t), rooted in חטא (chata’), “to miss or go wrong.” The animal changes from goat to lamb, while the word-family keeps the offering tied to the missing it addresses.
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