Numbers 29:1

King James Version 1611 (Original)

And in the seventh month, on the first day of the month, ye shall have an holy convocation; ye shall do no servile work: it is a day of blowing the trumpets unto you.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וּבַחֹ֨דֶשׁ הַשְּׁבִיעִ֜י בְּאֶחָ֣ד לַחֹ֗דֶשׁ מִֽקְרָא־קֹ֙דֶשׁ֙ יִהְיֶ֣ה לָכֶ֔ם כָּל־מְלֶ֥אכֶת עֲבֹדָ֖ה לֹ֣א תַעֲשׂ֑וּ י֥וֹם תְּרוּעָ֖ה יִהְיֶ֥ה לָכֶֽם׃

Transliteration

And in ḥōdeš the šəbîʿî in ʾeḥāḏ to ḥōdeš miqrāʾ-qōḏeš shall yihyeh to you, all-məleʾḵeṯ ʿăḇōḏāh not ṯaʿăśû; yôm tərûʿāh shall yihyeh to you.

Grammar Details

• *ḥōdeš*: noun, masculine, singular - month
• *šəbîʿî*: adjective, masculine, singular - seventh
• *ʾeḥāḏ*: number, masculine, singular - one/first
• *miqrāʾ-qōḏeš*: construct noun phrase - holy convocation/assembly
• *yihyeh*: verb, imperfect, 3rd person, masculine, singular - will be
• *məleʾḵeṯ*: noun, feminine, construct - work of
• *ʿăḇōḏāh*: noun, feminine, singular - labor/service
• *ṯaʿăśû*: verb, imperfect, 2nd person, masculine, plural - you shall do
• *yôm*: noun, masculine, singular - day
• *tərûʿāh*: noun, feminine, singular - shouting/blasting

Word Meanings

• *ḥōdeš*: month/new moon
• *miqrāʾ-qōḏeš*: holy convocation/holy assembly/sacred gathering
• *məleʾḵeṯ ʿăḇōḏāh*: laborious work/servile work
• *tərûʿāh*: shouting/blasting/blowing/alarm

Referenced Verses

• Lev 23:24-25 : 24 Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, In the seventh month, in the first day of the month, shall ye have a sabbath, a memorial of blowing of trumpets, an holy convocation. 25 Ye shall do no servile work therein: but ye shall offer an offering made by fire unto the LORD.
• Num 10:1-9 : 1 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, 2 Make thee two trumpets of silver; of a whole piece shalt thou make them: that thou mayest use them for the calling of the assembly, and for the journeying of the camps. 3 And when they shall blow with them, all the assembly shall assemble themselves to thee at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation. 4 And if they blow but with one trumpet, then the princes, which are heads of the thousands of Israel, shall gather themselves unto thee. 5 When ye blow an alarm, then the camps that lie on the east parts shall go forward. 6 When ye blow an alarm the second time, then the camps that lie on the south side shall take their journey: they shall blow an alarm for their journeys. 7 But when the congregation is to be gathered together, ye shall blow, but ye shall not sound an alarm. 8 And the sons of Aaron, the priests, shall blow with the trumpets; and they shall be to you for an ordinance for ever throughout your generations. 9 And if ye go to war in your land against the enemy that oppresseth you, then ye shall blow an alarm with the trumpets; and ye shall be remembered before the LORD your God, and ye shall be saved from your enemies. 10 Also in the day of your gladness, and in your solemn days, and in the beginnings of your months, ye shall blow with the trumpets over your burnt offerings, and over the sacrifices of your peace offerings; that they may be to you for a memorial before your God: I am the LORD your God.
• 1 Chr 15:28 : 28 Thus all Israel brought up the ark of the covenant of the LORD with shouting, and with sound of the cornet, and with trumpets, and with cymbals, making a noise with psalteries and harps.
• Ezra 3:6 : 6 From the first day of the seventh month began they to offer burnt offerings unto the LORD. But the foundation of the temple of the LORD was not yet laid.
• Neh 7:73 : 73 So the priests, and the Levites, and the porters, and the singers, and some of the people, and the Nethinims, and all Israel, dwelt in their cities; and when the seventh month came, the children of Israel were in their cities.
• Ps 81:3 : 3 Blow up the trumpet in the new moon, in the time appointed, on our solemn feast day.
• Ps 89:15 : 15 Blessed is the people that know the joyful sound: they shall walk, O LORD, in the light of thy countenance.
• Isa 27:13 : 13 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the great trumpet shall be blown, and they shall come which were ready to perish in the land of Assyria, and the outcasts in the land of Egypt, and shall worship the LORD in the holy mount at Jerusalem.
• Zech 9:14 : 14 And the LORD shall be seen over them, and his arrow shall go forth as the lightning: and the Lord GOD shall blow the trumpet, and shall go with whirlwinds of the south.
• Mark 16:15-16 : 15 And he said unto them, Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature. 16 He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; but he that believeth not shall be damned.
• Rom 10:14-18 : 14 How then shall they call on him in whom they have not believed? and how shall they believe in him of whom they have not heard? and how shall they hear without a preacher? 15 And how shall they preach, except they be sent? as it is written, How beautiful are the feet of them that preach the gospel of peace, and bring glad tidings of good things! 16 But they have not all obeyed the gospel. For Esaias saith, Lord, who hath believed our report? 17 So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God. 18 But I say, Have they not heard? Yes verily, their sound went into all the earth, and their words unto the ends of the world.
• Rom 15:16-19 : 16 That I should be the minister of Jesus Christ to the Gentiles, ministering the gospel of God, that the offering up of the Gentiles might be acceptable, being sanctified by the Holy Ghost. 17 I have therefore whereof I may glory through Jesus Christ in those things which pertain to God. 18 For I will not dare to speak of any of those things which Christ hath not wrought by me, to make the Gentiles obedient, by word and deed, 19 Through mighty signs and wonders, by the power of the Spirit of God; so that from Jerusalem, and round about unto Illyricum, I have fully preached the gospel of Christ.