Numbers 29:1

World English Bible (2000)

"'In the seventh month, on the first day of the month, you shall have a holy convocation; you shall do no servile work: it is a day of blowing of trumpets to 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 to the children of Israel, saying, 'In the seventh month, on the first day of the month, shall be a solemn rest to you, a memorial of blowing of trumpets, a holy convocation. 25 You shall do no regular work; and you shall offer an offering made by fire to Yahweh.'"
• Num 10:1-9 : 1 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, 2 "Make two trumpets of silver. You shall make them of beaten work. You shall use them for the calling of the congregation, and for the journeying of the camps. 3 When they blow them, all the congregation shall gather themselves to you at the door of the Tent of Meeting. 4 If they blow just one, then the princes, the heads of the thousands of Israel, shall gather themselves to you. 5 When you blow an alarm, the camps that lie on the east side shall go forward. 6 When you blow an alarm the second time, the camps that lie on the south side shall go forward. They shall blow an alarm for their journeys. 7 But when the assembly is to be gathered together, you shall blow, but you shall not sound an alarm. 8 "The sons of Aaron, the priests, shall blow the trumpets. This shall be to you for a statute forever throughout your generations. 9 When you go to war in your land against the adversary who oppresses you, then you shall sound an alarm with the trumpets. Then you will be remembered before Yahweh your God, and you will be saved from your enemies. 10 "Also in the day of your gladness, and in your set feasts, and in the beginnings of your months, you shall blow the trumpets over your burnt offerings, and over the sacrifices of your peace offerings; and they shall be to you for a memorial before your God. I am Yahweh your God."
• 1 Chr 15:28 : 28 Thus all Israel brought up the ark of the covenant of Yahweh with shouting, and with sound of the cornet, and with trumpets, and with cymbals, sounding aloud with stringed instruments and harps.
• Ezra 3:6 : 6 From the first day of the seventh month began they to offer burnt offerings to Yahweh: but the foundation of the temple of Yahweh 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 Nethinim, and all Israel, lived in their cities. When the seventh month was come, the children of Israel were in their cities.
• Ps 81:3 : 3 Blow the trumpet at the New Moon, at the full moon, on our feast day.
• Ps 89:15 : 15 Blessed are the people who learn to acclaim you. They walk in the light of your presence, Yahweh.
• Isa 27:13 : 13 It will happen in that day that a great trumpet will be blown; and those who were ready to perish in the land of Assyria, and those who were outcasts in the land of Egypt, shall come; and they will worship Yahweh in the holy mountain at Jerusalem.
• Zech 9:14 : 14 Yahweh will be seen over them; and his arrow will go flash like lightning; and the Lord Yahweh will blow the trumpet, and will go with whirlwinds of the south.
• Mark 16:15-16 : 15 He said to them, "Go into all the world, and preach the Good News to the whole creation. 16 He who believes and is baptized will be saved; but he who disbelieves will be condemned.
• Rom 10:14-18 : 14 How then will they call on him in whom they have not believed? How will they believe in him whom they have not heard? How will they hear without a preacher? 15 And how will they preach unless they are sent? As it is written: "How beautiful are the feet of those who preach the Good News of peace, who bring glad tidings of good things!" 16 But they didn't all listen to the glad news. For Isaiah says, "Lord, who has believed our report?" 17 So faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God. 18 But I say, didn't they hear? Yes, most certainly, "Their sound went out into all the earth, their words to the ends of the world."
• Rom 15:16-19 : 16 that I should be a servant of Christ Jesus to the Gentiles, serving as a priest the Good News of God, that the offering up of the Gentiles might be made acceptable, sanctified by the Holy Spirit. 17 I have therefore my boasting in Christ Jesus in things pertaining to God. 18 For I will not dare to speak of any things except those which Christ worked through me, for the obedience of the Gentiles, by word and deed, 19 in the power of signs and wonders, in the power of God's Spirit; so that from Jerusalem, and around as far as to Illyricum, I have fully preached the Good News of Christ;