KING JAMES VERSION (KJV)
TRANSLATION, MEANING, CONTEXT
To get what Numbers 7:87 means based on its source text, scroll down or follow these links for the original scriptural meaning , biblical context and relative popularity.
“All the oxen for the burnt offering were twelve bullocks, the rams twelve, the lambs of the first year twelve, with their meat offering: and the kids of the goats for sin offering twelve.”
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| KJV Verse | Original Hebrew | Meaning/ Definition This is a simplified translation of the original Hebrew word. Follow the buttons on the right to get more detail. | More Use the buttons below to get details on the Hebrew word and view related Bible verses that use the same root word. |
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| “All” | כָּל | Properly, the whole; hence, all, any or every (in the singular only, but often in a plural sense) | All |
| “the oxen” | הַבָּקָ֨ר | A beeve or an animal of the ox family of either gender (as used for plowing); collectively, a herd | oxen |
| “for the burnt offering” | לָֽעֹלָ֜ה | A step or (collectively, stairs, as ascending); usually a holocaust (as going up in smoke) | burnt offering |
| “were” | (No Hebrew definition. English implied.) | ||
| “twelve” | שְׁנֵ֧ים | Two; also (as ordinal) twofold | twelve |
| “bullocks,” | פָּרִ֗ים | A bullock (apparently as breaking forth in wild strength, or perhaps as dividing the hoof) | bullocks |
| “the rams” | אֵילִ֤ם | Properly, strength; hence, anything strong; specifically a ram (from his strength) | rams |
| “twelve,” | שְׁנֵים | Two; also (as ordinal) twofold | twelve |
| “the lambs” | כְּבָשִׂ֧ים | A ram (just old enough to butt) | lambs |
| “of the first” | בְּנֵֽי | 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.) | first |
| “year” | שָׁנָ֛ה | A year (as a revolution of time) | year |
| “twelve,” | שְׁנֵ֥ים | Two; also (as ordinal) twofold | twelve |
| “with their meat offering:” | וּמִנְחָתָ֑ם | A donation; euphemistically, tribute; specifically a sacrificial offering (usually bloodless and voluntary) | meat offering |
| “and the kids” | וּשְׂעִירֵ֥י | Shaggy; as noun, a he-goat; by analogy, a faun | kids |
| “of the goats” | עִזִּ֛ים | A she-goat (as strong), but masculine in plural (which also is used elliptically for goat's hair) | goats |
| “for sin offering” | לְחַטָּֽאת׃ | An offence (sometimes habitual sinfulness), and its penalty, occasion, sacrifice, or expiation; also (concretely) an offender | sin offering |
| “twelve.” | שְׁנֵ֥ים | Two; also (as ordinal) twofold | twelve |
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85 Each charger of silver weighing an hundred and thirty shekels, each bowl seventy: all the silver vessels weighed two thousand and four hundred shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary:
86 The golden spoons were twelve, full of incense, weighing ten shekels apiece, after the shekel of the sanctuary: all the gold of the spoons was an hundred and twenty shekels.
87 All the oxen for the burnt offering were twelve bullocks, the rams twelve, the lambs of the first year twelve, with their meat offering: and the kids of the goats for sin offering twelve.
88 And all the oxen for the sacrifice of the peace offerings were twenty and four bullocks, the rams sixty, the he goats sixty, the lambs of the first year sixty. This was the dedication of the altar, after that it was anointed.
89 And when Moses was gone into the tabernacle of the congregation to speak with him, then he heard the voice of one speaking unto him from off the mercy seat that was upon the ark of testimony, from between the two cherubims: and he spake unto him.
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