What Does Numbers 7:70 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 names the offering from the root for missing, holding the miss and its response in one word-family.
THE MEANING
This line places one young goat in the offering set apart for the missing. Its Hebrew name, חַטָּאת (chatta’t), grows from חטא (chata), “to miss.” The name ties the offering directly to the missing it addresses.
THE ROOT
חַטָּאת
chatta't
GROWS FROM
חטא
chata
To miss, to miss the mark.
“as an offering for falling short” in this verse is chatta't. English separates “sin” from “sin offering,” but חטא names both the act of missing and חַטָּאת, the offering associated with that missing. The line keeps the failure and its ritual response within one word-family.
ALSO GROWS
chata: To miss; to sin.
חָטָא
This verb shows the underlying action carried by the root: going wrong or missing the mark.
chet: A missing; sin.
חֵטְא
This noun names the miss itself, linking the offering to the condition for which it is brought.
chatta't: Missing; an offering for the missing.
חַטָּאת
This is the word rendered “sin offering” in the verse, carrying the root of missing into the name of the offering.
THE PATTERN
Scripture names this offering from the missing it addresses, keeping the failure and its ritual response in one word-family.
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.In whole burnings and in offerings for falling short, you did not delight.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.Here the same Hebrew root appears in the words rendered “sin” and “sin offering.” One root spans the miss and the offering brought in response, so Numbers 7:70 compresses that connection into a single line.
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