What Does Numbers 7:46 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 the offering also names the missing itself, binding the response to what it addresses.
THE MEANING
The missing has a specific place here: one kid of the goats is designated in relation to it. The Hebrew word for the offering also names the missing, holding the gap and its response in one word-family.
THE ROOT
חַטָּאת
chatat
GROWS FROM
חטא
chata
to miss, err, or fail to reach
“as an offering for falling short” in this verse is chatat. The word translated “sin offering” comes from the same root that names missing. Hebrew keeps the missing and the offering for it within one word-family, where English gives them separate names.
ALSO GROWS
chet: missing; an offense
חֵטְא
This branch names the missing itself, the condition for which the offering is designated.
chote: one who misses or errs
חוֹטֵא
This branch names the one who misses, showing how the same root connects a person with the missing.
chatat: missing; an offering for the missing
חַטָּאת
This is the word used for the offering in the verse, carrying the name of what it addresses.
THE PATTERN
The missing is brought into relation with a named offering.
Or if his falling short in which he has missed the mark is perceived by him, he brings his drawing near, a female kid of the goats without blemish, for it.Yet the LORD delighted to crush him, and to sicken him. When you make his living soul a guilt offering, he shall see his seed, and lengthen his days, and the delight of the LORD shall break through in his hand.But this one, after bringing near one slain offering for shortcomings, sat down without break at the right hand of God.THE THREAD
Or if his falling short in which he has missed the mark is perceived by him, he brings his drawing near, a female kid of the goats without blemish, for it.Leviticus uses the same חטא (chata) word-family for the missing and for the offering brought in response. The repeated kid of the goats makes that shared root visible beneath the English.
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