The Meaning of Numbers 6:15 Explained

Numbers 6:15

KJV: And a basket of unleavened bread, cakes of fine flour mingled with oil, and wafers of unleavened bread anointed with oil, and their meat offering, and their drink offerings.

YLT: and a basket of unleavened things of flour, cakes mixed with oil, and thin cakes of unleavened things anointed with oil, and their present, and their libations.

Darby: and a basket with unleavened bread, cakes of fine flour mingled with oil, and unleavened wafers anointed with oil, and their oblation, and their drink-offerings.

ASV: and a basket of unleavened bread, cakes of fine flour mingled with oil, and unleavened wafers anointed with oil, and their meal-offering, and their drink-offerings.

KJV Reverse Interlinear

And a basket  of unleavened bread,  cakes  of fine flour  mingled  with oil,  and wafers  of unleavened bread  anointed  with oil,  and their meat offering,  and their drink offerings. 

What does Numbers 6:15 Mean?

Context Summary

Numbers 6:13-27 - The Nazarite Offering The Priestly Blessing
Take heed, O Christian soul, who has dedicated thyself to some lofty purpose, to be warned by the law of the Nazarite! Thy God expects of thee a more careful walk than is required of others. The cups of gaiety of which they drink are not for thee. Shame and contumely may fall to thy lot, from which they escape.
Thou art specially to beware against defiling contact with aught that savors of death-those who are dead in trespasses and sins. Go with them only to save them, but never to participate in their ways.
If the Nazarite vows were vitiated, even by accident, the time that had elapsed was cancelled. Ah, how many of our days we have rendered void! The beautiful benediction with which the chapter closes has its counterpart in 2 Corinthians 13:14. What the human lips spoke on earth, God authenticated from heaven, Numbers 6:27. Be very careful for the honor of the Name! 3 John 1:7. [source]

Chapter Summary: Numbers 6

1  The law of the Nazarite in the days of his separation
13  And after their completion
22  The form of blessing the people

What do the individual words in Numbers 6:15 mean?

and a basket of unleavened bread fine flour cakes of mixed with oil and wafers unleavened anointed with oil and their grain offering and with their drink offerings
וְסַ֣ל מַצּ֗וֹת סֹ֤לֶת חַלֹּת֙ בְּלוּלֹ֣ת בַּשֶּׁ֔מֶן וּרְקִיקֵ֥י מַצּ֖וֹת מְשֻׁחִ֣ים בַּשָּׁ֑מֶן וּמִנְחָתָ֖ם וְנִסְכֵּיהֶֽם

וְסַ֣ל  and  a  basket 
Parse: Conjunctive waw, Noun, masculine singular construct
Root: סַל  
Sense: basket.
מַצּ֗וֹת  of  unleavened  bread 
Parse: Noun, feminine plural
Root: מַצָּה  
Sense: unleavened (bread, cake), without leaven.
סֹ֤לֶת  fine  flour 
Parse: Noun, feminine singular construct
Root: סׄלֶת  
Sense: fine flour.
חַלֹּת֙  cakes 
Parse: Noun, feminine plural
Root: חַלָּה  
Sense: cake, cake (if pierced) (probably perforated).
בְּלוּלֹ֣ת  of  mixed 
Parse: Verb, Qal, QalPassParticiple, feminine plural
Root: בָּלַל 
Sense: to mix, mingle, confuse, confound.
בַּשֶּׁ֔מֶן  with  oil 
Parse: Preposition-b, Article, Noun, masculine singular
Root: שֶׁמֶן  
Sense: fat, oil.
וּרְקִיקֵ֥י  and  wafers 
Parse: Conjunctive waw, Noun, masculine plural construct
Root: רָקִיק  
Sense: thin cake, wafer.
מַצּ֖וֹת  unleavened 
Parse: Noun, feminine plural
Root: מַצָּה  
Sense: unleavened (bread, cake), without leaven.
מְשֻׁחִ֣ים  anointed 
Parse: Verb, Qal, QalPassParticiple, masculine plural
Root: מָשַׁח  
Sense: to smear, anoint, spread a liquid.
בַּשָּׁ֑מֶן  with  oil 
Parse: Preposition-b, Article, Noun, masculine singular
Root: שֶׁמֶן  
Sense: fat, oil.
וּמִנְחָתָ֖ם  and  their  grain  offering 
Parse: Conjunctive waw, Noun, feminine singular construct, third person masculine plural
Root: מִנְחָה  
Sense: gift, tribute, offering, present, oblation, sacrifice, meat offering.
וְנִסְכֵּיהֶֽם  and  with  their  drink  offerings 
Parse: Conjunctive waw, Noun, masculine plural construct, third person masculine plural
Root: נֶסֶךְ 
Sense: drink offering, libation, molten image, something poured out.