Numbers 7:1

Geneva Bible (1560)

Nowe when Moses had finished the setting vp of the Tabernacle, and anointed it & sanctified it, and all the instrumentes thereof, and the altar with al the instruments thereof, and had anoynted them and sanctified them,

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וַיְהִ֡י בְּיוֹם֩ כַּלּ֨וֹת מֹשֶׁ֜ה לְהָקִ֣ים אֶת־הַמִּשְׁכָּ֗ן וַיִּמְשַׁ֨ח אֹת֜וֹ וַיְקַדֵּ֤שׁ אֹתוֹ֙ וְאֶת־כָּל־כֵּלָ֔יו וְאֶת־הַמִּזְבֵּ֖חַ וְאֶת־כָּל־כֵּלָ֑יו וַיִּמְשָׁחֵ֖ם וַיְקַדֵּ֥שׁ אֹתָֽם׃

Transliteration

wa-yəhî in yôm kallôt Mōšeh ləhāqîm ʾet-the-miškān wa-yimšaḥ ʾōtô wa-yəqaddēš ʾōtô wə-ʾet-all-kēlāyw wə-ʾet-the-mizbēaḥ wə-ʾet-all-kēlāyw wa-yimšāḥēm wa-yəqaddēš ʾōtām

Grammar Details

• *wa-yəhî*: consecutive imperfect, 3rd masculine singular - and it came to pass/happened
• *yôm*: masculine singular construct - day of
• *kallôt*: infinitive construct of *kālâ* - to complete/finish
• *Mōšeh*: proper noun, masculine singular - Moses
• *ləhāqîm*: preposition + hiphil infinitive construct - to set up/erect
• *ʾet*: direct object marker
• *miškān*: noun, masculine singular - tabernacle/dwelling place
• *wa-yimšaḥ*: consecutive imperfect, 3rd masculine singular - and he anointed
• *ʾōtô*: direct object marker with 3rd masculine singular suffix - it/him
• *wa-yəqaddēš*: consecutive imperfect, 3rd masculine singular, piel - and he sanctified/consecrated
• *kēlāyw*: noun, masculine plural construct with 3rd masculine singular suffix - his vessels/utensils
• *mizbēaḥ*: noun, masculine singular - altar
• *wa-yimšāḥēm*: consecutive imperfect, 3rd masculine singular with 3rd masculine plural suffix - and he anointed them
• *ʾōtām*: direct object marker with 3rd masculine plural suffix - them

Word Meanings

• *yəhî*: happened/came to pass/was
• *kallôt*: finishing/completing/ending
• *ləhāqîm*: to raise up/to erect/to establish
• *miškān*: tabernacle/dwelling place/tent sanctuary
• *yimšaḥ*: anointed/smeared with oil
• *yəqaddēš*: sanctified/consecrated/set apart

Referenced Verses

• Lev 8:10-11 : 10 (Nowe Moses had taken the anointing oyle, and anoynted the Tabernacle, and al that was therein, and sanctified them, 11 And sprinkled thereof vpon the altar seuen times, and anointed the altar and all his instruments, and the lauer, and his foote, to sanctifie them)
• Lev 9:1-9 : 1 And in the eight day Moses called Aaron and his sonnes, and the Elders of Israel: 2 Then hee sayde vnto Aaron, Take thee a yong calfe for a sinne offring, and a ram for a burnt offring, both without blemish, and bring them before the Lord. 3 And vnto the children of Israel thou shalt speake, saying, Take yee an hee goate for a sinne offring, and a calfe, and a lambe, both of a yeere olde, without blemish for a burnt offring: 4 Also a bullock, and a ramme for peace offringes, to offer before the Lorde, and a meate offring mingled with oyle: for to day the Lorde will appeare vnto you. 5 Then they brought that which Moses commanded before the Tabernacle of the Congregation, and all the assembly drewe neere and stood before the Lord. 6 (For Moses had sayde, This is the thing, which the Lord commaunded that ye should do, and the glory of the Lord shal appeare vnto you) 7 Then Moses sayd vnto Aaron, Draw neere to the Altar, and offer thy sinne offering, and thy burnt offring, and make an attonement for thee and for the people: offer also the offring of the people, and make an atonement for them, as the Lord hath commaunded. 8 Aaron therefore went vnto the Altar, and killed the calfe of the sinne offring, which was for himselfe. 9 And the sonnes of Aaron brought ye blood vnto him, and he dipt his finger in the blood, and put it vpon the hornes of the Altar, and powred the rest of the blood at the foote of the Altar. 10 But the fat and the kidneis and the kall of the liuer of the sinne offring, he burnt vpon the Altar, as the Lord had commaunded Moses. 11 The flesh also and the hide hee burnt with fire without the hoste. 12 After, he slewe the burnt offering, and Aarons sonnes brought vnto him the blood, which he sprinckled round about vpon the Altar. 13 Also they brought the burnt offring vnto him with the pieces thereof, and the head, and he burnt them vpon the Altar. 14 Likewise he did wash the inwardes and the legs, and burnt them vpon the burnt offring on the Altar. 15 Then he offred the peoples offring, and tooke a goate, which was the sinne offring for the people, and slewe it: and offred it for sinne, as the first: 16 So he offred the burnt offring, and prepared it, according to the maner. 17 He presented also the meate offring, & filled his hand thereof, and beside the burnt sacrifice of the morning he burnt this vpon the Altar. 18 He slewe also the bullock, and the ram for the peace offrings, that was for the people, and Arons sonnes brought vnto him the blood, which he sprinkled vpon the Altar round about, 19 With the fat of the bullocke, and of the ram, the rumpe, and that which couereth the inwards and the kidneis, and the kall of the liuer. 20 So they layed the fat vpon the breasts, and he burnt the fat vpon the Altar. 21 But the breastes and the ryght shoulder Aaron shooke to and fro before the Lord, as the Lord had commaunded Moses. 22 So Aaron lift vp his hand toward the people, and blessed them, and came downe from offring of the sinne offring, and the burnt offring, and the peace offrings. 23 After, Moses and Aaron went into the Tabernacle of the Congregation, and came out, and blessed the people, and the glorie of the Lord appeared to all the people. 24 And there came a fire out from the Lord and consumed vpon the Altar the burnt offring and the fatte: which when all the people sawe, they gaue thankes, and fell on their faces.
• Num 7:84 : 84 This was the dedication of the Altar by the princes of Israel, whe it was anointed: twelue chargers of siluer, twelue siluer boules, twelue incense cuppes of golde,
• Num 7:88 : 88 And all the bullocks for the peace offrings were foure and twentie bullockes, the rammes sixtie, the hee goates sixtie, the lambes of a yeere olde sixtie: this was the dedication of the Altar, after that it was anointed.
• 1 Kgs 8:64 : 64 The same day did the King halowe the middle of the court, that was before the house of the Lorde: for there he made burnt offerings, and the meate offrings, and the fat of the peace offeringes, because the brasen altar that was before the Lorde, was too litle to receiue the burnt offerings, and the meate offerings, and the fat of the peace offrings.
• Matt 23:19 : 19 Ye fooles and blinde, whether is greater, the offering, or the altar which sanctifieth the offering?
• Gen 2:3 : 3 So God blessed the seuenth day, & sanctified it, because that in it he had rested from all his worke, which God had created and made.
• Exod 13:2 : 2 Sanctifie vnto me all the first borne: that is, euery one that first openeth the wombe among the children of Israel, as well of man as of beast: for it is mine.
• Exod 30:23-30 : 23 Take thou also vnto thee, principall spices of the most pure myrrhe fiue hundreth shekels, of sweete cinamon halfe so much, that is, two hundreth and fiftie, and of sweete calamus, two hundreth, and fiftie: 24 Also of cassia fiue hundreth, after the shekel of the Sanctuarie, & of oyle oliue an Hin. 25 So thou shalt make of it the oyle of holie oyntment, euen a most precious oyntment after the arte of the Apothecarie: this shalbe the oyle of holy oyntment. 26 And thou shalt anoynt the Tabernacle of the Congregation therewith, and the Arke of the Testimonie: 27 Also the Table, & al the instruments thereof, and the Candlesticke, with all the instruments thereof, and the altar of incense: 28 Also the Altar of burnt offring with al his instruments, and the lauer and his foote. 29 So thou shalt sanctifie them, & they shalbe most holy: all that shal touch them, shalbe holy. 30 Thou shalt also anoint Aaron & his sonnes, & shalt consecrate them, that they may minister vnto me in the Priests office.
• Exod 40:9-9 : 9 After, thou shalt take the anoynting oyle, and anoynt the Tabernacle, and all that is therein, and halowe it with all the instruments thereof, that it may be holy. 10 And thou shalt anoynt the Altar of the burnt offring, and all his instrumentes, and shalt sanctifie the Altar, that it may bee an altar most holie.
• Exod 40:17-19 : 17 Thus was the Tabernacle reared vp the first day of the first moneth in the seconde yeere. 18 Then Moses reared vp the Tabernacle and fastened his sockets, and set vp the boardes thereof, and put in the barres of it, and reared vp his pillars. 19 And he spred the couering ouer the Tabernacle, and put the couering of that couering on hie aboue it, as the Lorde had commaunded Moses.