Numbers 6:16

Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex)

English Translation

The priest shall present them before Yahweh, and shall offer his sin offering, and his burnt offering.

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וְהִקְרִ֥יב

qârab

H7126

“and · to approach”

Conjunction + Verb, Hiphil, Sequential Perfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular

Appears 283× in the Hebrew Bible
First appears at Genesis 12:11

Full BDB Definition

Origin: a primitive root

TWOT: 2065

to come near, approach, enter into, draw near - (Qal) to approach, draw near - (Niphal) to be brought near - (Piel) to cause to approach, bring near, cause to draw near - (Hiphil) to bring near, bring, present

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 →

9: words
8: distinct lemmas
Pentateuch: section

Grammatical profile

2 verbs
5 nouns
2 particles

Verb forms

וְהִקְרִ֥יב Hiphil · Sequential Perfect
וְעָשָׂ֥ה Qal · Sequential Perfect

Hebrew & Septuagint length

In English translation the verse runs 17 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 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.

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 6:16 Masoretic · Westminster Leningrad Codex

וְהִקְרִ֥יב הַכֹּהֵ֖ן לִפְנֵ֣י יְהוָ֑ה וְעָשָׂ֥ה אֶת חַטָּאת֖וֹ וְאֶת עֹלָתֽוֹ

The priest shall present them before Yahweh, and shall offer his sin offering, and his burnt offering.

World English Bible · Public Domain

Greek LXX Numbers 6:16 Septuagint · lemma form

καί προςφέρω ὁ ἱερεύς ἔναντι κύριος καί ποιέω ὁ περί ἁμαρτία αὐτός καί ὁ ὁλοκαύτωμα αὐτός

And the priest shall bring them before the Lord, and shall offer his sin-offering, and his whole burnt offering.

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)

וִיקָרֵב כַּהֲנָא קֳדָם יְיָ וְיַעְבֵּד יָת חַטָאתֵהּ וְיָת עֲלָתֵהּ

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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)

וִיקָרֵב כַּהֲנָא קֳדָם יְיָ וְיֶעֱבַד יַת חַטָאתֵיהּ וְיַת עֲלָתֵיהּ

And the priest shall offer before the Lord, and perform the sin offering, and the burnt sacrifice;

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 6:16 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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Trapp's Complete Commentary

John Trapp

Num 6:16 And the priest shall bring [them] before the LORD, and shall offer his sin offering, and his burnt offering:

Ver. 16. And shall offer his sin offering.] Acknowledging thereby, that he had sinned in the most sanctified time and actions of his life; and needed therefore a Saviour.

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.

John Gill's Exposition

And he shall offer the ram for a sacrifice of peace offerings unto the Lord,.... After he had offered the other two:

with the basket of unleavened bread; which went along with that:

the priest shall also offer his meat offering, and his drink offering: of which he had his part, and were the usual appendages of other sacrifices; see Num 28:1.

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

16. Sin offering, and… burnt offering — The order is by no means accidental, but expresses the relative order of man’s religious duties; first to seek forgiveness, and then to consecrate himself entirely to God. See Introduction to Leviticus, (5.)

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

unfoldingWord translationNotes

Door43 World Missions Community

He must offer his sin offering

"He" refers to the priest and "his" refers to the man who took a vow.

the fellowship offering

"as the fellowship offering"

The priest must present also ... drink offering

You can make clear the understood information. AT: "The priest must present also ... the drink offering to Yahweh" (See: Ellipsis)

translationWords

priest

sin offering

burnt offering

unleavened bread

sacrifice

unfoldingWord translationNotes — © Distant Shores Media and the Door43 World Missions Community, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Source: git.door43.org/Door43/en_tn.

Lesson kit

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Numbers, in the Pentateuch, opens this verse with 9 words (8 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is qârab (“to approach”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.

Discussion questions

What does “to approach” (qârab) contribute to the verse as a whole?
These translations render this verse differently. What is at stake in choosing one wording over another?
«וְהִקְרִ֥יב» is a Hiphil Sequential Perfect verb. How does that grammatical form shape the action described?
Compare how Trapp's Complete Commentary and John Gill's Exposition read this verse. Where do they agree or differ?

Things to notice

This verse counts 9 Hebrew ↔ 16 Greek words.
These translations choose different wording for 8 words in this verse.
8 distinct Hebrew lemmas span 9 words in this verse.