What Does Numbers 7:76 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” also names the missing itself, holding the wrong and its offering in one word.
THE MEANING
The verse gives the missing a name and a tangible form: one kid of the goats is offered for it. What can sound abstract in English appears here as something specific and brought forward.
THE ROOT
חַטָּאת
chatta't
GROWS FROM
חטא
To miss, fail, or go wrong.
“as an offering for falling short” in this verse is chatta't. חַטָּאת (chatta’t) can name both the missing and the offering associated with it. English separates those into “sin” and “sin offering”; the Hebrew word keeps them in the same family.
ALSO GROWS
chata: To miss or go wrong; also, to sin.
חָטָא
In Judges 20:16, this root describes slingers who could cast a stone “and not miss,” giving the word a concrete sense of missing its mark.
chatta't: The wrong itself, or an offering associated with that wrong.
חַטָּאת
It is the same word used here, bringing the missing and the offering for it together in one term.
THE PATTERN
The missing is named through a concrete offering, while the text also asks what that offering can remove.
Or if his falling short in which he has missed the mark is perceived by him, he brings his drawing near, a male kid of the goats without blemish;And he brings to the LORD, for his falling short in which he has missed the mark, his guilt offering, a female from the flock, a lamb or a kid of the goats, as an offering for it; and the priest makes a covering for him from his falling short.For it is impossible that the blood of bulls and of goats could lift away shortcomings.THE THREAD
Among all this people there were seven hundred chosen men left-handed; every one could sling stones to the width of a hair, and never miss the mark.The Hebrew word translated “not miss” is יַחֲטִא (yachati), from the same root חטא (chata) behind חַטָּאת (chatta’t), “sin offering.” The root joins a stone missing its mark with the missing named in this verse.
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