The Meaning of Numbers 15:7 Explained

Numbers 15:7

KJV: And for a drink offering thou shalt offer the third part of an hin of wine, for a sweet savour unto the LORD.

YLT: and wine for a libation, a third part of the hin, thou dost bring near -- a sweet fragrance to Jehovah.

Darby: and of wine for a drink-offering shalt thou offer the third part of a hin; for a sweet odour to Jehovah.

ASV: and for the drink-offering thou shalt offer the third part of a hin of wine, of a sweet savor unto Jehovah.

KJV Reverse Interlinear

And for a drink offering  thou shalt offer  the third  [part] of an hin  of wine,  [for] a sweet  savour  unto the LORD. 

What does Numbers 15:7 Mean?

Chapter Summary: Numbers 15

1  The law of the meat offering, and the drink offering
14  The stranger is under the same law
17  The law of the first of the dough
22  The sacrifice for sins of ignorance
30  The punishment of presumption
32  He who violated the Sabbath is stoned
37  The law of tassels

What do the individual words in Numbers 15:7 mean?

And wine as a drink offering a third of a hin of you shall offer as a aroma sweet to Yahweh
וְיַ֥יִן לַנֶּ֖סֶךְ שְׁלִשִׁ֣ית הַהִ֑ין תַּקְרִ֥יב רֵֽיחַ־ נִיחֹ֖חַ לַיהוָֽה

וְיַ֥יִן  And  wine 
Parse: Conjunctive waw, Noun, masculine singular
Root: יַיִן  
Sense: wine.
לַנֶּ֖סֶךְ  as  a  drink  offering 
Parse: Preposition-l, Article, Noun, masculine singular
Root: נֶסֶךְ 
Sense: drink offering, libation, molten image, something poured out.
שְׁלִשִׁ֣ית  a  third 
Parse: Number, ordinal feminine singular construct
Root: שְׁלִישִׁי 
Sense: third, one third, third part, third time.
הַהִ֑ין  of  a  hin 
Parse: Article, Noun, masculine singular
Root: הִין  
Sense: hin.
תַּקְרִ֥יב  of  you  shall  offer 
Parse: Verb, Hifil, Imperfect, second person masculine singular
Root: קָרַב  
Sense: to come near, approach, enter into, draw near.
רֵֽיחַ־  as  a  aroma 
Parse: Noun, masculine singular construct
Root: רֵיחַ  
Sense: scent, fragrance, aroma, odour.
נִיחֹ֖חַ  sweet 
Parse: Noun, masculine singular
Root: נִיחֹחַ  
Sense: soothing, quieting, tranquillising.
לַיהוָֽה  to  Yahweh 
Parse: Preposition-l, Proper Noun, masculine singular
Root: יהוה 
Sense: the proper name of the one true God.

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