Numbers 28:5

Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex) Numbers 28:5 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 the tenth part of an ephah of fine flour for a meal-offering, mixed with the fourth part of a hin of beaten oil.
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  • World English Bible Public Domain
    and the tenth part of an ephah of fine flour for a meal-offering, mixed with the fourth part of a hin of beaten oil.
  • King James Version Public Domain
    And a tenth part of an ephah of flour for a meat offering, mingled with the fourth part of an hin of beaten oil.
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
    and the tenth of an ephah of fine flour for a grain offering, mixed with the fourth of a hin of beaten oil.

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  • World English Bible Public Domain
    and the tenth part of an ephah of fine flour for a meal-offering, mixed with the fourth part of a hin of beaten oil.
  • Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
    along with a tenth of an ephah of fine flour as a grain offering, mixed with a quarter hin of oil from pressed olives.
  • Majority Standard Bible Public Domain
    along with a tenth of an ephah of fine flour as a grain offering, mixed with a quarter hin of oil from pressed olives.
  • King James Version Public Domain
    And a tenth part of an ephah of flour for a meat offering, mingled with the fourth part of an hin of beaten oil.
  • American Standard Version (1901) Public Domain
    and the tenth part of an ephah of fine flour for a meal-offering, mingled with the fourth part of a hin of beaten oil.
  • Revised Version (1885) Public Domain
    and the tenth part of an ephah of fine flour for a meal offering, mingled with the fourth part of an hin of beaten oil.
  • Geneva Bible (1599) Public Domain
    And the tenth part of an Ephah of fine floure for a meate offering mingled with the fourth part of an Hin of beaten oyle.
  • Douay-Rheims (1899) Public Domain
    And the tenth part of an ephi of flour, which shall be tempered with the purest oil, of the measure of the fourth part of a hin.
  • Young's Literal Translation Public Domain
    and a tenth of the ephah of flour for a present, mixed with beaten oil, a fourth of the hin;
  • Literal Standard Version CC BY-SA 4.0
    and a tenth of the ephah of flour for a present mixed with a fourth of the hin of beaten oil;
  • Unlocked Literal Bible CC BY-SA 4.0
    You must offer a tenth of an ephah of fine flour as a grain offering, mixed with one-fourth of a hin of beaten oil.
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
    and the tenth of an ephah of fine flour for a grain offering, mixed with the fourth of a hin of beaten oil.
  • Darby Bible Public Domain
    and a tenth part of an ephah of fine flour for an oblation, mingled with beaten oil, a fourth part of a hin:
  • World Messianic Bible Public Domain
    with one tenth of an efah of fine flour for a meal offering, mixed with the fourth part of a hin of beaten oil.
  • Webster's Bible Public Domain
    And a tenth part of an ephah of flour for a meat-offering, mingled with a fourth part of a hin of beaten oil.
  • Free Bible Version CC BY-SA 4.0
    along with one tenth of an ephah of the best flour for a grain offering, mixed with a quarter of a hin of pressed olive oil.
  • Bible in Basic English Public Domain
    And the tenth part of an ephah of the best meal for a meal offering mixed with the fourth part of a hin of clear oil.
  • JPS Tanakh (1917) Public Domain
    and the tenth part of an ephah of fine flour for a meal-offering, mingled with the fourth part of a hin of beaten oil.

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כָּתִ֖ית
kâthîyth
H3795
“pure”
Adjective, Adjective, Masculine, Singular, Absolute
Part of Speech
Adjective
Type
Adjective
Gender
Masculine
Number
Singular
State
Absolute
Full BDB Definition

Origin: from H3807

TWOT: 1062a

beaten out, pure, pounded fine (in a mortar), costly - of olive oil
  1. וַעֲשִׂירִ֧ית ʻăsîyrîy H6224 “and · tenth” Conjunction + Adjective, Ordinal number, Feminine, Singular, Construct
  2. הָאֵיפָ֛ה ʼêyphâh H374 “the · ephah” Particle, Definite Article + Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Absolute
  3. סֹ֖לֶת çôleth H5560 “fine flour” Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Absolute
  4. לְמִנְחָ֑ה minchâh H4503 “to/for · offering” Preposition + Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Absolute
  5. בְּלוּלָ֛ה bâlal H1101 “mixed” Verb, Qal, Participle Passive, Feminine, Singular, Absolute
  6. בְּשֶׁ֥מֶן shemen H8081 “in/at · fat of” Preposition + Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct
  7. רְבִיעִ֥ת rᵉbîyʻîy H7243 “fourth” Adjective, Ordinal number, Feminine, Singular, Construct
  8. הַהִֽין hîyn H1969 “the · hin” Particle, Definite Article + Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute

About this verse

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9
words
9
distinct lemmas
Pentateuch
section

Notable vocabulary

The rarest word here is כָּתִ֖ית pure H3795 — appearing just 5 times in the whole Hebrew Bible.

Shared distinctive vocabulary

כָּתִ֖ית pure H3795 occurs in 5 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:

Grammatical profile

  • 1 verb
  • 5 nouns
  • 3 adjectives

Verb forms

  • בְּלוּלָ֛ה Qal · Participle Passive

Hebrew & Septuagint length

In English translation the verse runs 24 words from the Hebrew and 26 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 16 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 28:5 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.

  • Leviticus 2:1 "'When anyone offers an offering of a meal offering to Yahweh, his offering shall be of fine flour; and he shall pour oil on it, and put frankincense on it.
  • Exodus 16:36 Now an omer is the tenth part of an ephah.
  • Exodus 29:38–42 "Now this is that which you shall offer on the altar: two lambs a year old day by day continually.
  • Numbers 15:4–5 then shall he who offers his offering offer to Yahweh a meal-offering of a tenth part [of an ephah] of fine flour mixed with the fourth part of a hin of oil:

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Hebrew and Greek witnesses Masoretic Hebrew ↔ Greek Septuagint

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Hebrew Numbers 28:5 Masoretic · Westminster Leningrad Codex

וַעֲשִׂירִ֧ית הָאֵיפָ֛ה סֹ֖לֶת לְמִנְחָ֑ה בְּלוּלָ֛ה בְּשֶׁ֥מֶן כָּתִ֖ית רְבִיעִ֥ת הַהִֽין

and the tenth part of an ephah of fine flour for a meal-offering, mixed with the fourth part of a hin of beaten oil.

World English Bible · Public Domain

Greek LXX Numbers 28:5 Septuagint · lemma form

καί ποιέω ὁ δέκατος ὁ οιφι σεμίδαλις εἰς θυσία ἀναποιέω ἐν ἔλαιον ἐν τέταρτος ὁ ιν

And you shall offer the tenth part of an ephah of fine flour for a meat-offering, mingled with oil, with the fourth 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)

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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)
    וְחָד מִן עַשְׂרָא בִּתְלַת סָאִין סוּלְתָּא לְמִנְחָתָא דְפִילָא בִּמְשַׁח כְּתִישָׁא רַבְעוּת הִינָא

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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.

  2. Targum Pseudo-Jonathan Torah (Genesis–Deuteronomy)
    וְחַד מִן עַשְרָא בִּתְלַת סָוִוין סְמִידָא דְחִינְטַיָא לְמִנְחָתָא פְּתִיכָא בִּמְשַׁח זֵיתָא כְּתִישָׁא רַבְעוּת הִינָא

    and the tenth of three seahs of wheaten flour as a mincha mingled with beaten olive oil, the fourth of a hin.

    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 28:5 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.

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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers

(5) Beaten oil.—See Exo_27:20, and Note.

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

John Gill's Exposition

And the tenth part of an ephah of flour for a meat offering,.... Which always went along with the burnt offering:

mingled with the fourth part of an hin of beaten oil: which in those times and countries was used instead of butter; and fine flour and this mingled together made a "minchah", or bread offering, as it should rather be called; of the measures used; see Gill on Exo 29:40.

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

Matthew Poole's English Annotations

A meat-offering, which was an appendix or accessary to the principal sacrifice. See on Lev 2:1; Num 15:4.

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

5. A tenth part of an ephah — Lev_23:13, note.

Flour — Lev_2:1, note.

A hin — Lev_23:13.

Beaten oil — The olive berries were beaten in a mortar. The best oil was thus made in November or December. When the berry was softer it yielded, by pressing, a larger quantity of inferior oil.

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

Rashi

Rabbi Shlomo Yitzchaki (Rashi)

סלת למנחה FLOUR FOR A MEAL OFFERING — the meal offering that usually accompanies drink offerings (cf. Rashi on Leviticus 23:37).

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

Discussion questions

  1. How does “pure” (kâthîyth) shape what this verse is saying?
  2. How does Exodus 27:20, which shares the word «pure», read alongside this verse?
  3. These translations render this verse differently; the difference is in the English rendering, not the original. What questions does that raise?
  4. «בְּלוּלָ֛ה» is a Qal Participle Passive verb. How does that grammatical form shape the action described?
  5. Compare how Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers and John Gill's Exposition read this verse. Where do they agree or differ?

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