NUMBERS 16:38

KING JAMES VERSION (KJV)

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“The censers of these sinners against their own souls, let them make them broad plates for a covering of the altar: for they offered them before the Lord, therefore they are hallowed: and they shall be a sign unto the children of Israel.”

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Numbers 16:38 Translation & Meaning

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The censers מַחְתּוֹת֩ A pan for live coals censers
of these הָאֵ֜לֶּה These or those these
sinners הַֽחַטָּאִ֨ים A criminal, or one accounted guilty sinners
against their own souls, בְּנַפְשֹׁתָ֗ם Properly, a breathing creature, i.e., animal of (abstractly) vitality; used very widely in a literal, accommodated or figurative sense (bodily or mental) against own souls
let them make וְעָשׂ֨וּ To do or make, in the broadest sense and widest application let make
them broad רִקֻּעֵ֤י Beaten out, i.e., a (metallic) plate broad
plates פַחִים֙ A spring net (as spread out like a lamina) plates
for (No Hebrew definition. English implied.)
a covering צִפּ֣וּי Encasement (with metal) covering
of the altar: לַמִּזְבֵּ֔חַ An altar altar
for כִּֽי (by implication) very widely used as a relative conjunction or adverb (as below); often largely modified by other particles annexed for
they offered הִקְרִיבֻ֥ם To approach (causatively, bring near) for whatever purpose offered
them before לִפְנֵֽי The face (as the part that turns); used in a great variety of applications (literally and figuratively); also (with prepositional prefix) as a preposition (before, etc.) before
the Lord, יְהוָ֖ה (the) self-Existent or Eternal; Jeho-vah, Jewish national name of God Lord
therefore they are hallowed: וַיִּקְדָּ֑שׁוּ To be (causatively, make, pronounce or observe as) clean (ceremonially or morally) therefore are hallowed
and they shall be וְיִֽהְי֥וּ To exist, i.e., be or become, come to pass (always emphatic, and not a mere copula or auxiliary) and they shall be
a sign לְא֖וֹת A signal (literally or figuratively), as a flag, beacon, monument, omen, prodigy, evidence, etc sign
unto the children לִבְנֵ֥י A son (as a builder of the family name), in the widest sense (of literal and figurative relationship, including grandson, subject, nation, quality or condition, etc., (like father or brother), etc.) children
of Israel. יִשְׂרָאֵֽל׃ He will rule as God; Jisraël, a symbolical name of Jacob; also (typically) of his posterity Israel

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  • 36  And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,

  • 37  Speak unto Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest, that he take up the censers out of the burning, and scatter thou the fire yonder; for they are hallowed.

  • 38  The censers of these sinners against their own souls, let them make them broad plates for a covering of the altar: for they offered them before the Lord, therefore they are hallowed: and they shall be a sign unto the children of Israel.

  • 39  And Eleazar the priest took the brasen censers, wherewith they that were burnt had offered; and they were made broad plates for a covering of the altar:

  • 40  To be a memorial unto the children of Israel, that no stranger, which is not of the seed of Aaron, come near to offer incense before the Lord; that he be not as Korah, and as his company: as the Lord said to him by the hand of Moses.




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