Numbers 15:5

Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex) Numbers 15:5 appears in the Hebrew Old Testament. The text above is from the Westminster Leningrad Codex. Each word links to its Strong’s number, a concise gloss, and parsing drawn from the Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible morphology. Click any word for its full Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB) entry.
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and wine for the drink-offering, the fourth part of a hin, shall you prepare with the burnt offering, or for the sacrifice, for each lamb.
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  • World English Bible Public Domain
    and wine for the drink-offering, the fourth part of a hin, shall you prepare with the burnt offering, or for the sacrifice, for each lamb.
  • King James Version Public Domain
    And the fourth part of an hin of wine for a drink offering shalt thou prepare with the burnt offering or sacrifice, for one lamb.
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
    And wine for the drink offering, a fourth of the hin, you shall make upon the burnt offering or for the sacrifice, for the one male lamb.

unfoldingWord Literal Text — © unfoldingWord, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Word-aligned USFM3 via Door43 (git.door43.org/unfoldingWord/en_ult).

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  • World English Bible Public Domain
    and wine for the drink-offering, the fourth part of a hin, shall you prepare with the burnt offering, or for the sacrifice, for each lamb.
  • Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
    With the burnt offering or sacrifice of each lamb, you are to prepare a quarter hin of wine as a drink offering.
  • Majority Standard Bible Public Domain
    With the burnt offering or sacrifice of each lamb, you are to prepare a quarter hin of wine as a drink offering.
  • King James Version Public Domain
    And the fourth part of an hin of wine for a drink offering shalt thou prepare with the burnt offering or sacrifice, for one lamb.
  • American Standard Version (1901) Public Domain
    and wine for the drink-offering, the fourth part of a hin, shalt thou prepare with the burnt-offering, or for the sacrifice, for each lamb.
  • Revised Version (1885) Public Domain
    and wine for the drink offering, the fourth part of an hin, shalt thou prepare with the burnt offering or for the sacrifice, for each lamb.
  • Geneva Bible (1599) Public Domain
    Also thou shalt prepare ye fourth part of an Hin of wine to be powred on a lambe, appointed for the burnt offring or any offring.
  • Douay-Rheims (1899) Public Domain
    And he shall give the same measure of wine to pour out in libations for the holocaust or for the victim. For every lamb,
  • Young's Literal Translation Public Domain
    and wine for a libation, a fourth of the hin thou dost prepare for the burnt-offering or for a sacrifice, for the one lamb;
  • Literal Standard Version CC BY-SA 4.0
    and you prepare a fourth of the hin of wine for a drink-offering, with the burnt-offering or for the sacrifice, for one lamb;
  • Unlocked Literal Bible CC BY-SA 4.0
    You must also offer with the burnt offering, or for the sacrifice, one-fourth of a hin of wine for the drink offering for each lamb.
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
    And wine for the drink offering, a fourth of the hin, you shall make upon the burnt offering or for the sacrifice, for the one male lamb.
  • Darby Bible Public Domain
    and of wine for a drink-offering shalt thou offer the fourth part of a hin with the burnt-offering, or with the sacrifice, for one lamb.
  • World Messianic Bible Public Domain
    You shall prepare wine for the drink offering, one fourth of a hin, with the burnt offering or for the sacrifice, for each lamb.
  • Webster's Bible Public Domain
    And the fourth part of a hin of wine for a drink-offering shalt thou prepare with the burnt-offering or sacrifice, for one lamb.
  • Free Bible Version CC BY-SA 4.0
    Add a quarter of a hin of wine as a drink offering to the burnt offering or the sacrifice of a lamb.
  • Bible in Basic English Public Domain
    And for the drink offering, you are to give with the burned offering or other offering, the fourth part of a hin of wine for every lamb.
  • JPS Tanakh (1917) Public Domain
    and wine for the drink-offering, the fourth part of a hin, shalt thou prepare with the burnt-offering or for the sacrifice, for each lamb.

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הַהִ֔ין
hîyn
H1969
“the · hin”
Particle, Definite Article + Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute
Part of Speech
Particle + Noun
Type
Common
Gender
Masculine
Number
Singular
State
Absolute
Full BDB Definition

Origin: probably of Egyptian origin

TWOT: 494

hin - a unit of measure, about 5 quarts (6 liters) - a vessel holding a hin of liquid
  1. וְיַ֤יִן yayin H3196 “and · wine” Conjunction + Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute
  2. לַנֶּ֨סֶךְ֙ neçek H5262 “to/for the · drink offering” Preposition, Determined + Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute
  3. רְבִיעִ֣ית rᵉbîyʻîy H7243 “fourth” Adjective, Ordinal number, Feminine, Singular, Absolute
  4. תַּעֲשֶׂ֥ה ʻâsâh H6213 “to do” Verb, Qal, Imperfect, 2nd Person, Masculine, Singular
  5. עַל ʻal H5921 “upon” Preposition
  6. הָעֹלָ֖ה ʻôlâh H5930 “the · burnt offering” Particle, Definite Article + Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Absolute
  7. א֣וֹ ʼôw H176 “or” Conjunction
  8. לַזָּ֑בַח zebach H2077 “to/for the · sacrifice” Preposition, Determined + Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute
  9. לַכֶּ֖בֶשׂ kebes H3532 “to/for the · lamb” Preposition, Determined + Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute
  10. הָאֶחָֽד ʼechâd H259 “the · one” Particle, Definite Article + Adjective, Cardinal number, Masculine, Singular, Absolute

About this verse

These counts appear in no published source. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged text and Lemma’s own curated glosses. What Lemma adds →

11
words
11
distinct lemmas
Pentateuch
section

Notable vocabulary

The rarest word here is הַהִ֔ין hin H1969 — appearing just 22 times in the whole Hebrew Bible.

Shared distinctive vocabulary

הַהִ֔ין hin H1969 occurs in 19 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:

Grammatical profile

  • 1 verb
  • 6 nouns
  • 2 adjectives
  • 1 preposition
  • 1 conjunction

Verb forms

  • תַּעֲשֶׂ֥ה Qal · Imperfect

Hebrew & Septuagint length

In English translation the verse runs 25 words from the Hebrew and 41 from the Septuagint (LXX English) — the Septuagint runs noticeably longer here. See the side-by-side →

A rough comparison of the two English renderings, which tokenize alike — not a word-level alignment.

Word counts can differ between the Hebrew and the Greek without any difference in meaning — e.g. the Hebrew direct-object marker אֵת has no separate Greek word, and Greek often adds the article ὁ.

Cross-references

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Topical passages linked to Numbers 15:5 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.

  • Numbers 28:7 The drink-offering of it shall be the fourth part of a hin for the one lamb: in the holy place shall you pour out a drink-offering of strong drink to Yahweh.
  • Numbers 28:14 Their drink-offerings shall be half a hin of wine for a bull, and the third part of a hin for the ram, and the fourth part of a hin for a lamb: this is the burnt offering of every month throughout the months of the year.
  • Judges 9:13 The vine said to them, Should I leave my new wine, which cheers God and man, and go to wave back and forth over the trees?
  • Psalms 116:13 I will take the cup of salvation, and call on the name of Yahweh.
  • Song of Solomon 1:4 Take me away with you. Let us hurry. The king has brought me into his chambers. Friends We will be glad and rejoice in you. We will praise your love more than wine! Beloved They are right to love you.
  • Zechariah 9:17 For how great is his goodness, And how great is his beauty! Grain will make the young men flourish, And new wine the virgins.
  • Matthew 26:28–29 for this is my blood of the new covenant, which is poured out for many for the remission of sins.
  • Philippians 2:17 Yes, and if I am poured out on the sacrifice and service of your faith, I rejoice, and rejoice with you all.
  • 2 Timothy 4:6 For I am already being offered, and the time of my departure has come.

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Hebrew and Greek witnesses Masoretic Hebrew ↔ Greek Septuagint

The same verse in the two great witnesses to the Old Testament, shown verse-for-verse.

Here the Septuagint runs noticeably longer than the Hebrew — LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) 41 words vs World English Bible 25. A rough length comparison of the two English translations, not a word-level alignment — read both below.

These are two independent witnesses, not word-aligned to each other, and the Septuagint is shown in lemma (dictionary) form.

Hebrew Numbers 15:5 Masoretic · Westminster Leningrad Codex

וְיַ֤יִן לַנֶּ֨סֶךְ֙ רְבִיעִ֣ית הַהִ֔ין תַּעֲשֶׂ֥ה עַל הָעֹלָ֖ה א֣וֹ לַזָּ֑בַח לַכֶּ֖בֶשׂ הָאֶחָֽד

and wine for the drink-offering, the fourth part of a hin, shall you prepare with the burnt offering, or for the sacrifice, for each lamb.

World English Bible · Public Domain

Greek LXX Numbers 15:5 Septuagint · lemma form

καί οἶνος εἰς σπονδή ὁ τέταρτος ὁ ιν ποιέω ἐπί ὁ ὁλοκαύτωσις ἤ ἐπί ὁ θυσία ὁ ἀμνός ὁ εἷς ποιέω τοσοῦτος κάρπωμα ὀσμή εὐωδία ὁ κύριος

And for a drink-offering you⌃ shall offer the fourth part of a hin on the whole burnt offering, or on the meat-offering: for every lamb you shall offer so much, as a sacrifice, a smell of sweet savor to the Lord.

LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) · Public Domain

Hebrew: Westminster Leningrad Codex (CC BY 4.0). Greek: Septuagint (public domain); English from LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) (Public Domain). How the Septuagint differs from the Hebrew →

Targum (Aramaic paraphrase)

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The Targum is the ancient Jewish Aramaic paraphrase of the Hebrew Scriptures — an interpretive translation, not the Hebrew text itself. Onkelos (literal) and Pseudo-Jonathan (expansive) render the Torah, and Jonathan the Prophets. Coverage is partial: where no permissively-licensed English translation exists for a verse, only the Aramaic is shown. This is verse-level text, not a word-by-word alignment to the Hebrew.

  1. Targum Onkelos Torah (Genesis–Deuteronomy)
    וְחַמְרָא לְנִסְכָּא רַבְעוּת הִינָא תַּעְבֵּד עַל עֲלָתָא אוֹ לְנִכְסַת קוּדְשַׁיָא לְאִמְרָא חָד

    (no public-domain English translation for this verse)

    Targum Onkelos — Aramaic: “Onkelos Genesis” (public domain); “Onkelos Exodus” (public domain); “Onkelos Leviticus” (public domain); “Onkelos Numbers” (public domain); “Onkelos Deuteronomy” (public domain). English: “Sefaria Community Translation” (CC0 1.0 (public-domain dedication)); “J.W. Etheridge. The Targums of Onkelos and Jonathan Ben Uzziel on the Pentateuch. London: Longmans, Green, 1862” (public domain). Text via Sefaria.

  2. Targum Pseudo-Jonathan Torah (Genesis–Deuteronomy)
    וַחֲמַר עִינְבָא לְנִיסוּכָא רַבְעוּת הִינָא דְעָבַד עַל עֲלָתָא אוֹ לְנִכְסַת קוּדְשָׁא לְאִימַר חָד

    and wine of grapes for a libation, the fourth of a hina, to be made upon the burnt offering or hallowed sacrifice-for one lamb.

    Targum Pseudo-Jonathan — Aramaic: “Targum Jonathan on Genesis” (public domain); “Targum Jonathan on Exodus” (public domain); “Targum Jonathan on Leviticus” (public domain); “Targum Jonathan on Numbers” (public domain); “Targum Jonathan on Deuteronomy” (public domain). English: “The Targum of Jonathan ben Uzziel, trans. J. W. Etheridge, London, 1862” (public domain). Text via Sefaria.

Commentary

Notes on Numbers 15:5 from classic Christian and Jewish commentators (each source and its license shown beneath its notes). The classic Christian expositions comment on the surrounding passage and are grouped to its opening verse, so a note may address several verses; the Jewish commentaries on the Tanakh (Rashi and others) are per-verse, so they appear only where the commentator wrote on this verse.

Lemma curates 59 commentaries, every one of them public domain or Creative Commons licensed, each selected and text-cleaned for this edition rather than reprinted as found. About our sources →

Trapp's Complete Commentary

John Trapp

Num 15:5 And the fourth [part] of an hin of wine for a drink offering shalt thou prepare with the burnt offering or sacrifice, for one lamb.

Ver. 5. For a drink offering.] These drink offerings of wine signified that the saints must be most ready and cheerful to offer themselves up to God in martyrdom, as a drink offering, for the testimony of their faith, and for the service and ministry of the Church, as Paul, {Php 2:17 2Ti 4:6} and many martyrs, who went as willingly to die as to dine. One of them called it his wedding day, and invited his friends thereunto: others, filled with the Holy Ghost, so rejoiced, that they were misjudged by their adversaries to be drunk with wine, wherein is excess, as Morgan falsely objected to Mr Philpot in a conference. {a}

{a} Act. and Mon., fol. 1653.

John Trapp, A Commentary or Exposition upon All the Books of the Old and New Testament (1647–1656) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

Adam Clarke's Commentary

Verse 5. The fourth part of a hin] The quantity of meal and flour was augmented in proportion to the size of the sacrifice with which it was offered. With a LAMB or a KID were offered one tenth deal of flour, (the tenth part of an ephah, See Clarke on Ex 29:40,) the fourth part of a hin of oil, and the fourth part of a hin of wine. With a RAM, two tenth deals of flour, a third part of a hin of oil, and a third part of a hin of wine. With a BULLOCK, three tenth deals of flour, half a hin of oil, and half a hin of wine. See Nu 15:4-11.

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible (1810–1826) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword/MySword module.

John Gill's Exposition

And the fourth part of an hin of wine,.... The same measure with the oil, and this was wine of the grapes, as the Targum of Jonathan; other sorts of wine might not be used for the purpose mentioned:

for a drink offering shalt thou prepare; with the meat offering, to go along with every burnt offering and peace offering; which, as they were the food of God and the provision of his house, it was proper there should be of every kind fit for an entertainment, as flesh, bread, and wine. These were to go

with the burnt offering or sacrifice, for one lamb; if there were more than one, then a greater quantity in proportion was required.

John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible (1746–1763) — public domain (CC PDM 1.0). Text via the HelloAO Bible API.

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible

Daniel D. Whedon

5. Wine for a drink offering — This was not to be drunken by the priest, but a part of it was to be poured out. See 2Ti_4:6, note on σπενδομαι, “I am already poured,” as a drink offering. According to Deu_14:23-27, a part of the wine was to be drank by the offerer and his family after he had presented his peace offering and partaken of the meat, (bread,) when he appeared before the Lord with his household, accepted through the atonement then made, and therefore entitled to share in the blessings so procured. Hence the inference that bread and wine were, even under Mosaism, the joyous emblems of conscious salvation through the atonement. Wine is a symbol of joy.

Daniel D. Whedon (gen. ed.), Commentary on the Old and New Testaments (1874–1909) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

The Pulpit Commentary

A drink offering. This is nowhere separately treated of in Leviticus, but it is mentioned along with the meat offering in the passages just referred to. Libations are amongst the simplest and most universal of offerings to the unseen powers. For one lamb. cbk, lamb or kid.

The Pulpit Commentary (1880–1919), ed. H.D.M. Spence-Jones & Joseph S. Exell — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

Rashi

Rabbi Shlomo Yitzchaki (Rashi)

לכבש האחד FOR EACH LAMB — It (this phrase) refers to all that is mentioned above — to the meal-offering, and the oil and the wine (not only to the wine last mentioned; the prescribed measures of flour, oil, and wine are to accompany each lamb).

Rashi on the Tanakh — English translations: “The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg” (CC BY 4.0); “Pentateuch with Rashi's commentary by M. Rosenbaum and A.M. Silbermann, 1929-1934” (public domain); “The Metsudah Tanach series, Lakewood, N.J” (CC BY 4.0); and “The Book of Joshua, Metsudah Publications, 1997” (CC BY 4.0). Text via Sefaria.

Lesson kit

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Numbers, in the Pentateuch, opens this verse with 11 words (11 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is hîyn (“hin”). The Greek Septuagint runs longer here. A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.

Discussion questions

  1. What does “hin” (hîyn) contribute to the verse as a whole?
  2. How does Exodus 29:40, which shares the word «hin», read alongside this verse?
  3. The Septuagint runs longer here than the Hebrew. What might account for the difference?
  4. These translations render this verse differently. What is at stake in choosing one wording over another?
  5. «תַּעֲשֶׂ֥ה» is a Qal Imperfect verb. How does that grammatical form shape the action described?
  6. Compare how Trapp's Complete Commentary and Adam Clarke's Commentary read this verse. Where do they agree or differ?

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