Numbers 18:27

Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex) Numbers 18:27 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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Your heave-offering shall be reckoned to you, as though it were the grain of the threshing floor, and as the fullness of the winepress.
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  • World English Bible Public Domain
    Your heave-offering shall be reckoned to you, as though it were the grain of the threshing floor, and as the fullness of the winepress.
  • King James Version Public Domain
    And this your heave offering shall be reckoned unto you, as though it were the corn of the threshingfloor, and as the fulness of the winepress.
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
    And your contribution shall be reckoned to you as the grain from the threshing floor and as the fullness from the winepress.

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
    Your heave-offering shall be reckoned to you, as though it were the grain of the threshing floor, and as the fullness of the winepress.
  • Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
    Your offering will be reckoned to you as grain from the threshing floor or juice from the winepress.
  • Majority Standard Bible Public Domain
    Your offering will be reckoned to you as grain from the threshing floor or juice from the winepress.
  • King James Version Public Domain
    And this your heave offering shall be reckoned unto you, as though it were the corn of the threshingfloor, and as the fulness of the winepress.
  • American Standard Version (1901) Public Domain
    And your heave-offering shall be reckoned unto you, as though it were the grain of the threshing-floor, and as the fulness of the winepress.
  • Revised Version (1885) Public Domain
    And your heave offering shall be reckoned unto you, as though it were the corn of the threshing-floor, and as the fulness of the winepress.
  • Geneva Bible (1599) Public Domain
    And your heaue offering shalbe reckened vnto you, as the corne of the barne, or as the abundance of the wine presse.
  • Douay-Rheims (1899) Public Domain
    That it may be reckoned to you as an oblation of firstfruits, as well of the barnfloors as of the winepresses:
  • Young's Literal Translation Public Domain
    and your heave-offering hath been reckoned to you as corn from the threshing-floor, and as fulness from the wine-vat;
  • Literal Standard Version CC BY-SA 4.0
    and your raised-offering has been reckoned to you as grain from the threshing-floor and as the fullness from the wine-vat;
  • Unlocked Literal Bible CC BY-SA 4.0
    Your contribution must be considered by you as if it were a tenth of the grain from the threshing floor or of the production from the winepress.
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
    And your contribution shall be reckoned to you as the grain from the threshing floor and as the fullness from the winepress.
  • Darby Bible Public Domain
    And your heave-offering shall be reckoned unto you, as the corn from the threshing-floor, and as the fulness of the winepress.
  • World Messianic Bible Public Domain
    Your wave offering shall be credited to you, as though it were the grain of the threshing floor, and as the fullness of the wine press.
  • Webster's Bible Public Domain
    And this your heave-offering shall be reckoned to you, as though it were the corn of the threshing-floor, and as the fullness of the wine-press.
  • Free Bible Version CC BY-SA 4.0
    Your offering will be considered as if it were the firstfruits of grain from your threshing floor or grape juice from the winepress.
  • Bible in Basic English Public Domain
    And this lifted offering is to be put to your credit as if it was grain from the grain-floor and wine from the vines.
  • JPS Tanakh (1917) Public Domain
    And the gift which ye set apart shall be reckoned unto you, as though it were the corn of the threshing-floor, and as the fulness of the wine-press.

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וְכַֽמְלֵאָ֖ה
mᵉlêʼâh
H4395
“and · like/as the · fulness”
Conjunction + Preposition, Determined + Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Absolute
Part of Speech
Conjunction + Preposition + Noun
Type
Common
Gender
Feminine
Number
Singular
State
Absolute
Full BDB Definition

Origin: from H4392

TWOT: 1195c

fulness, full produce
  1. וְנֶחְשַׁ֥ב châshab H2803 “and · to think” Conjunction + Verb, Niphal, Sequential Perfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular
  2. תְּרוּמַתְכֶ֑ם tᵉrûwmâh H8641 “offering · your” Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Construct + Suffix, Personal, 2nd Person, Masculine, Plural
  3. כַּדָּגָן֙ dâgân H1715 “like/as the · wheat” Preposition, Determined + Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute
  4. מִן min H4480 “from” Preposition
  5. הַגֹּ֔רֶן gôren H1637 “the · threshing floor” Particle, Definite Article + Noun, Common, Both, Singular, Absolute
  6. מִן min H4480 “from” Preposition
  7. הַיָּֽקֶב yeqeb H3342 “the · wine vat” Particle, Definite Article + Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute

About this verse

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9
words
7
distinct lemmas
Pentateuch
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Notable vocabulary

The rarest word here is וְכַֽמְלֵאָ֖ה fulness H4395 — appearing just 8 times in the whole Hebrew Bible.

First appearance in Scripture

This word makes its first canonical appearance in the Hebrew Bible here:

  • הַיָּֽקֶב wine vat H3342

Shared distinctive vocabulary

וְכַֽמְלֵאָ֖ה fulness H4395 occurs in 8 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:

Grammatical profile

  • 1 verb
  • 5 nouns
  • 3 prepositions

Verb forms

  • וְנֶחְשַׁ֥ב Niphal · Sequential Perfect

Repetition

A word recurs within this verse — often emphatic in Hebrew:

Hebrew & Septuagint length

In English translation the verse runs 24 words from the Hebrew and 19 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 9 Hebrew tokens and 14 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.

Cross-references

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Topical passages linked to Numbers 18:27 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.

  • Numbers 18:30 Therefore you shall tell them, When you heave the best of it from it, then it shall be reckoned to the Levites as the increase of the threshing floor, and as the increase of the wine-press.
  • Leviticus 6:19–23 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
  • Numbers 15:20 Of the first of your dough you shall offer up a cake for a heave-offering: as the heave-offering of the threshing floor, so shall you heave it.
  • Deuteronomy 15:14 you shall furnish him liberally out of your flock, and out of your threshing floor, and out of your winepress; as Yahweh your God has blessed you, you shall give to him.
  • 2 Kings 6:27 He said, If Yahweh doesn't help you, whence shall I help you? out of the threshing floor, or out of the winepress?
  • Hosea 9:1–2 Don't rejoice, Israel, to jubilation like the nations; For you were unfaithful to your God. You love the wages of a prostitute at every grain threshing floor.

Cross-references courtesy of OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0).

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 18:27 Masoretic · Westminster Leningrad Codex

וְנֶחְשַׁ֥ב לָכֶ֖ם תְּרוּמַתְכֶ֑ם כַּדָּגָן֙ מִן הַגֹּ֔רֶן וְכַֽמְלֵאָ֖ה מִן הַיָּֽקֶב

Your heave-offering shall be reckoned to you, as though it were the grain of the threshing floor, and as the fullness of the winepress.

World English Bible · Public Domain

Greek LXX Numbers 18:27 Septuagint · lemma form

καί λογίζομαι σύ ὁ ἀφαίρεμα σύ ὡς σῖτος ἀπό ἅλων καί ἀφαίρεμα ἀπό ληνός

And your heave-offerings shall be reckoned to you as corn from the floor, and an offering from the wine-press.

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)
    וְתִתְחַשֵׁב לְכוֹן אַפְרָשׁוּתְכוֹן כְּעִבּוּרָא מִן אִדְרָא וְכִמְלֵאָתָא מִן מַעְצַרְתָּא

    (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)
    וְאִתְחַשָׁב לְכוֹן אַפְרָשׁוּתְכוֹן הֵי כְּעִבּוּרָא מִן אִידְרָא וְהֵי כְּחַמְרָא דְמַלְיָתָא מִן מַעֲצַרְתָּא

    and your separation shall be reckoned to you as the corn from the threshing floor, and as the wine from the fulness of the winepress:

    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 18:27 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 →

Joseph Benson's Commentary

Num 18:27-28. As though it were the corn — It shall be accepted of you as much as if you offered it out of your own lands and labours. To Aaron — And to his children, who were all to have their share herein.

Joseph Benson's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments (1811–1818) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

Geneva Bible (1599)

Geneva Bible translators

As acceptable as the fruit of your own ground or vineyard.

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

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers

(27) And as the fulness of the wine-press.—The word which is here rendered fulness is the same which occurs in Exo_22:9, and is there rendered “the first of thy ripe fruits.” It is used to denote either the fully ripe grain, or the produce of the vine. The tithe which the Levites paid to the priests was regarded in the same light as if it had been the produce of their own labour.

A Bible Commentary for English Readers, edited by Charles John Ellicott (1878–1897) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

gen. ed. J. J. S. Perowne

27. your heave-offering] your contribution, which you must make to the priests.

as the corn of the threshing-floor] In the same way that all Israel give to you a tithe of com and wine, so shall ye give a tithe of that tithe to the priests.

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

Thus you also shall offer an heave offering unto the Lord,.... As the Israelites did when they paid tithes to them, Num 18:24,

of all your tithes which ye receive of the children of Israel; which heave offering was a tenth part of them:

and ye shall give thereof the Lord's heave offering to Aaron the priest; that is, the said tenth part of the tithe was to be given not to Aaron only, as the high priest, as some have thought, and so to his successors in the high priesthood; but to him and his sons, even to all the priests in common, the high priest having his share of it; and Josephus (o) is clear for it, that the tithe of the annual fruits was paid to the Levites, and to the priests. Hecataeus, an Heathen writer, who lived in the times of Alexander the great, says (p), that all the priests of the Jews received the tenth of whatsoever was produced, and ministered things in common, and were 1500 in number.

(o) Antiqu. l. 4. c. 4. sect. 3. (p) Apud Joseph. contr. Apion. l. 1. sect. 22.

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

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Reckoned unto you - Or, by you. The Levites were, of their tithes, to pay tithe to the priests, just as other Israelites paid tithe to the Levites.

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible (1834–1885) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword/MySword module.

Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

As an. Thus you will perform your duty, as well as if you gave corn and wine of your own growth. (Menochius) --- Presses. Hebrew yakeb, means also the tub where wine was kept. Jonathan translates, "as the ripe (old) wine of the tub of your wine-press;" insinuating that the wine must be fit for use. (Calmet; ver. 29, 30.)

George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), Haydock's Catholic Family Bible and Commentary, 1859 edition — public domain. Excludes Psalms (Douay-Rheims chapter numbering differs from Protestant) and Deuterocanonical books (Catholic canon only).

Matthew Poole's English Annotations

It shall be accepted of you as much as if you offered it out of your own lands and labours.

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible (1683–1685) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword/MySword module.

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible

Daniel D. Whedon

27. Shall be reckoned unto you — This tithe shall have all the elements of value and of sacrifice in the sight of the Lord, as it would have if it had been produced by toil and frugality, for it was a part of their living.

Mar_12:44.

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

John Wesley's Explanatory Notes

As though it were the corn - It shall be accepted of you as much as if you offered it out of your own lands and labours.

John Wesley, Explanatory Notes Upon the Whole Bible (1754–1765) — public domain. Text via the GEBible commentary corpus.

Rashi

Rabbi Shlomo Yitzchaki (Rashi)

ונחשב לכם תרומתכם כדגן מן הגרן AND THIS YOUR HEAVE OFFERING SHALL BE RECKONED UNTO YOU AS THOUGH IT WERE THE CORN OF THE THRESHING FLOOR — i.e. the heave-offering of your tithe is forbidden to laymen and to unclean priests, and such of these as eat it of set purpose incur the death penalty, or, if they have eaten it inadvertently, pay in addition to the capital sum a fifth, just as in the case of “T’rumah Gedolah” (the T’rumah set apart by the ordinary Israelite) which is termed the “firstling of the corn” from the threshing floor.

וכמלאה מן היקב AND AS THE FULNESS OF THE WINE PRESS — the heave offering of wine and oil which is taken out of the wine-press.

מלאה is a term for “ripening”; it is the produce that becomes full.

יקב is the pit in front of the wine-press into which the wine runs. The expression יקב always denotes an excavation in the ground. Similar is (Zechariah 14:10) יקבי המלך, “the pits of the King”, that is, the ocean (cf. Rashi on that verse) — the cavity which the King of the Universe has excavated.

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 9 words (7 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is mᵉlêʼâh (“fulness”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.

Discussion questions

  1. The word mᵉlêʼâh carries the sense “fulness.” How does it shape the verse?
  2. The word “wine vat” first appears here in Scripture. What is being introduced at this debut?
  3. Exodus 22:29 shares the word «fulness» with this verse. How do the two illuminate each other?
  4. “from” occurs 2× in this one verse. What is the effect of the repetition?
  5. These translations render this verse differently. What is at stake in choosing one wording over another?
  6. The verb «וְנֶחְשַׁ֥ב» is Niphal Sequential Perfect. How does its form color the action?
  7. Reading how Joseph Benson's Commentary and Geneva Bible (1599) read this verse, where do the two commentators agree and where do they part?

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