The Meaning of Numbers 15:9 Explained

Numbers 15:9

KJV: Then shall he bring with a bullock a meat offering of three tenth deals of flour mingled with half an hin of oil.

YLT: then he hath brought near for the son of the herd a present of flour, three-tenth deals, mixed with oil, a half of the hin;

Darby: then shall they present with the bullock as oblation three tenth parts of fine flour mingled with half a hin of oil;

ASV: then shall he offer with the bullock a meal-offering of three tenth parts of an ephah of fine flour mingled with half a hin of oil:

KJV Reverse Interlinear

Then shall he bring  with a bullock  a meat offering  of three  tenth deals  of flour  mingled  with half  an hin  of oil. 

What does Numbers 15:9 Mean?

Chapter Summary: Numbers 15

1  The law of the meat offering, and the drink offering
14  The stranger is under the same law
17  The law of the first of the dough
22  The sacrifice for sins of ignorance
30  The punishment of presumption
32  He who violated the Sabbath is stoned
37  The law of tassels

What do the individual words in Numbers 15:9 mean?

then shall be offered with a son of a bull a grain offering of fine flour three tenths [of an ephah] of mixed with oil half a hin of
וְהִקְרִ֤יב עַל־ בֶּן־ הַבָּקָר֙ מִנְחָ֔ה סֹ֖לֶת שְׁלֹשָׁ֣ה עֶשְׂרֹנִ֑ים בָּל֥וּל בַּשֶּׁ֖מֶן חֲצִ֥י הַהִֽין

וְהִקְרִ֤יב  then  shall  be  offered 
Parse: Conjunctive waw, Verb, Hifil, Conjunctive perfect, third person masculine singular
Root: קָרַב  
Sense: to come near, approach, enter into, draw near.
בֶּן־  a  son 
Parse: Noun, masculine singular construct
Root: בֵּן 
Sense: son, grandson, child, member of a group.
הַבָּקָר֙  of  a  bull 
Parse: Article, Noun, masculine singular
Root: בָּקָר  
Sense: cattle, herd, oxen, ox.
מִנְחָ֔ה  a  grain  offering 
Parse: Noun, feminine singular
Root: מִנְחָה  
Sense: gift, tribute, offering, present, oblation, sacrifice, meat offering.
סֹ֖לֶת  of  fine  flour 
Parse: Noun, feminine singular
Root: סׄלֶת  
Sense: fine flour.
שְׁלֹשָׁ֣ה  three 
Parse: Number, masculine singular
Root: מִשְׁלֹשׁ 
Sense: three, triad.
עֶשְׂרֹנִ֑ים  tenths  [of  an  ephah] 
Parse: Noun, masculine plural
Root: עִשָּׂרֹון  
Sense: tenth part, tithe.
בָּל֥וּל  of  mixed 
Parse: Verb, Qal, QalPassParticiple, masculine singular
Root: בָּלַל 
Sense: to mix, mingle, confuse, confound.
בַּשֶּׁ֖מֶן  with  oil 
Parse: Preposition-b, Article, Noun, masculine singular
Root: שֶׁמֶן  
Sense: fat, oil.
חֲצִ֥י  half 
Parse: Noun, masculine singular construct
Root: חֲצִי 
Sense: half.
הַהִֽין  a  hin  of 
Parse: Article, Noun, masculine singular
Root: הִין  
Sense: hin.