כַּ֥ף אַחַ֛ת עֲשָׂרָ֥ה זָהָ֖ב מְלֵאָ֥ה קְטֹֽרֶת
one golden ladle of ten shekels, full of incense;
World English Bible · Public Domain
Numbers 7:38
Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex) Numbers 7:38 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.
English Translation
one golden ladle of ten shekels, full of incense;
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The same verse in 3 English versions, stacked beneath the original-language interlinear above. Click any original word for its lexicon entry.
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Highlighted words mark where these versions differ — a whole-verse word diff, not a word-by-word alignment.
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World English Bible Public Domain
one golden ladle of ten shekels, full of incense;
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King James Version Public Domain
One golden spoon of ten shekels, full of incense:
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
one palm-sized bowl (ten gold) full of incense,
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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Every available English version of this verse, each an independent rendering of the whole verse.
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World English Bible Public Domain
one golden ladle of ten shekels, full of incense;
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Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
one gold dish weighing ten shekels, filled with incense;
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Majority Standard Bible Public Domain
one gold dish weighing ten shekels, filled with incense;
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King James Version Public Domain
One golden spoon of ten shekels, full of incense:
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American Standard Version (1901) Public Domain
one golden spoon of ten `shekels', full of incense;
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Revised Version (1885) Public Domain
one golden spoon of ten shekels, full of incense;
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Geneva Bible (1599) Public Domain
A golden incense cup of ten shekels, full of incense,
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Douay-Rheims (1899) Public Domain
And for victims of peace offerings two oxen, five rams, five buck goats. five lambs of a year old. This was the offering of Elisur the son of Sedeur.
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Young's Literal Translation Public Domain
one golden spoon of ten `shekels', full of perfume;
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Literal Standard Version CC BY-SA 4.0
one golden spoon of ten [shekels], full of incense;
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Unlocked Literal Bible CC BY-SA 4.0
He also gave one gold dish weighing ten shekels, full of incense.
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
one palm-sized bowl (ten gold) full of incense,
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Darby Bible Public Domain
one cup of ten [shekels] of gold, full of incense;
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World Messianic Bible Public Domain
one golden ladle of ten shekels, full of incense;
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Webster's Bible Public Domain
One golden spoon of ten shekels, full of incense:
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Free Bible Version CC BY-SA 4.0
He also presented a gold dish that weighed ten shekels filled with incense. As sacrifices he brought
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Bible in Basic English Public Domain
One gold spoon of ten shekels, full of spice;
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JPS Tanakh (1917) Public Domain
one golden pan of ten shekels, full of incense;
Literal Standard Version (2020), Covenant Press — licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Text via the HelloAO Bible API (eBible.org). Unlocked Literal Bible (unfoldingWord) — licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Text via the HelloAO Bible API (eBible.org). unfoldingWord Literal Text — © unfoldingWord, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Word-aligned USFM3 via Door43 (git.door43.org/unfoldingWord/en_ult). Free Bible Version, Dr. Jonathan Gallagher — licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Text via the HelloAO Bible API (eBible.org).
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מְלֵאָ֥ה
mâlêʼ
H4392
“full”
Adjective, Adjective, Feminine, Singular, Absolute
- Appears 58× in the Hebrew Bible
- First appears at Genesis 23:9
- Part of Speech
- Adjective
- Type
- Adjective
- Gender
- Feminine
- Number
- Singular
- State
- Absolute
Full BDB Definition
full, fulness, that which fills
- fully (adverb)
- כַּ֥ף kaph H3709 “palm of” Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Construct
- אַחַ֛ת ʼechâd H259 “one” Adjective, Cardinal number, Feminine, Singular, Absolute
- עֲשָׂרָ֥ה ʻeser H6235 “ten” Adjective, Cardinal number, Masculine, Singular, Absolute
- זָהָ֖ב zâhâb H2091 “gold” Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute
- מְלֵאָ֥ה mâlêʼ H4392 “full” Adjective, Adjective, Feminine, Singular, Absolute
- קְטֹֽרֶת qᵉṭôreth H7004 “incense” Noun, Common, Feminine, 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 →
- 6
- words
- 6
- distinct lemmas
- Pentateuch
- section
Shared distinctive vocabulary
מְלֵאָ֥ה full H4392 occurs in 57 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:
Grammatical profile
- 3 nouns
- 3 adjectives
Hebrew & Septuagint length
In English translation the verse runs 9 words from the Hebrew and 9 from the Septuagint (LXX English) — the same length.
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 6 Hebrew tokens and 6 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.
θυΐσκη εἷς δέκα χρυσοῦς πλήρης θυμίαμα
One golden censer of ten shekels, full of incense.
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.
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Targum Onkelos Torah (Genesis–Deuteronomy)
בָּזִיכָא חֲדָא מַתְקַל עֲשַׂר סִלְעִין הִיא דִדְהַב מַלְיָא קְטֹרֶת בּוּסְמַיָא
(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.
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Targum Pseudo-Jonathan Torah (Genesis–Deuteronomy)
בָּזִיכָא חֲדָא מַתְקַל עֲשְרָא סִלְעִין וגו'
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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.
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 6 words (6 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is mâlêʼ (“full”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.
Discussion questions
- How does “full” (mâlêʼ) shape what this verse is saying?
- Genesis 23:9 shares the word «full» with this verse. How do the two illuminate each other?
- These translations render this verse differently; the difference is in the English rendering, not the original. What questions does that raise?
Things to notice
- This verse counts 6 Hebrew ↔ 6 Greek words.
- These translations choose different wording for 7 words in this verse.
- 6 distinct Hebrew lemmas span 6 words in this verse.
Commentary
Notes on Numbers 7:38 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 →
John Gill's Exposition
John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible (1746–1763) — public domain (CC PDM 1.0). Text via the HelloAO Bible API.