Numbers 15:7

Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex)

English Translation

and for the drink-offering you shall offer the third part of a hin of wine, of a sweet savor to Yahweh.

World English Bible · Public Domain

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הַהִ֑ין

hîyn

H1969

“the · hin”

Particle, Definite Article + Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute

Appears 22× in the Hebrew Bible
First appears at Exodus 29:40

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

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 →

8: words
8: distinct lemmas
Pentateuch: section

Notable vocabulary

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

Shared distinctive vocabulary

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

Grammatical profile

1 verb
6 nouns
1 adjective

Verb forms

תַּקְרִ֥יב Hiphil · Imperfect

Hebrew & Septuagint length

In English translation the verse runs 21 words from the Hebrew and 23 from the Septuagint (LXX English) — closely comparable.

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.

In the original languages it is 8 Hebrew tokens and 13 Greek tokens — but the two are counted differently (Hebrew bundles its prefixes and suffixes into one token; the Greek is in lemma form), so that isn’t a like-for-like length.

Hebrew and Greek witnesses Masoretic Hebrew ↔ Greek Septuagint

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

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

Hebrew Numbers 15:7 Masoretic · Westminster Leningrad Codex

וְיַ֥יִן לַנֶּ֖סֶךְ שְׁלִשִׁ֣ית הַהִ֑ין תַּקְרִ֥יב רֵֽיחַ נִיחֹ֖חַ לַיהוָֽה

and for the drink-offering you shall offer the third part of a hin of wine, of a sweet savor to Yahweh.

World English Bible · Public Domain

Greek LXX Numbers 15:7 Septuagint · lemma form

καί οἶνος εἰς σπονδή ὁ τρίτος ὁ ιν προςφέρω εἰς ὀσμή εὐωδία κύριος

And you⌃ shall offer for a smell of sweet savor to the Lord wine for a drink-offering, the third part of a hin.

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)

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.

Targum Onkelos Torah (Genesis–Deuteronomy)

וְחַמְרָא לְנִסְכָּא תַּלְתּוּת הִינָא תְּקָרֵב לְאִתְקַבָּלָא בְרַעֲוָא קֳדָם יְיָ

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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.
Targum Pseudo-Jonathan Torah (Genesis–Deuteronomy)

וַחֲמַר עִינְבָא תַּלְתוּת הִינָא תַּקְרִיב בְּסִפְלֵי לְנִיסוּכָא מְטוֹל לְאִתְקַבָּלָא בְּרַעֲוָא קֳדָם יְיָ

and wine of grapes let him offer in a vase for the libation, the third of a hin, to be received with acceptance before the Lord.

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 15:7 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.

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Geneva Bible (1599)

Geneva Bible translators

The liquor was so called, because it was poured on the thing that was offered.

Geneva Bible (1599) marginal notes — public domain. Text via Bolls.life.

The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

gen. ed. J. J. S. Perowne

7. the drink-offering] The wine was offered as a libation to God by being poured out. Whether it was poured on the sacrifice, or, as in later times, at the foot of the altar (Sir_50:15), is uncertain,

The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges (gen. ed. J. J. S. Perowne; Cambridge University Press, 1878–1918) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

John Gill's Exposition

And for a drink offering thou shalt offer a third part of an hin of wine,.... The same quantity of wine was to be used in the drink offering as of oil in the meat offering, Num 15:4,

for a sweet savour unto the Lord, that it might be acceptable to him.

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

Lesson kit

Teaching starters — assembled from the data on this page, not authored interpretation. Every prompt links to the verse data it draws on. Edit before teaching.

Numbers, in the Pentateuch, opens this verse with 8 words (8 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is hîyn (“hin”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.

Discussion questions

The word hîyn carries the sense “hin.” How does it shape the verse?
How does Exodus 29:40, which shares the word «hin», read alongside this verse?
The translations on this page render this verse differently — a whole-verse word diff, not a word-by-word alignment. What might account for the different wordings?
«תַּקְרִ֥יב» is a Hiphil Imperfect verb. How does that grammatical form shape the action described?
Compare how Geneva Bible (1599) and The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges read this verse. Where do they agree or differ?

Things to notice

This verse counts 8 Hebrew ↔ 13 Greek words.
These translations choose different wording for 14 words in this verse.
8 distinct Hebrew lemmas span 8 words in this verse.