Numbers 29:12

Webster's Bible (1833)

On the fifteenth day of the seventh month you shall have a holy convocation; you shall do no servile work, and you shall keep a feast to Yahweh seven days:

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וּבַחֲמִשָּׁה֩ עָשָׂ֨ר י֜וֹם לַחֹ֣דֶשׁ הַשְּׁבִיעִ֗י מִֽקְרָא־קֹ֙דֶשׁ֙ יִהְיֶ֣ה לָכֶ֔ם כָּל־מְלֶ֥אכֶת עֲבֹדָ֖ה לֹ֣א תַעֲשׂ֑וּ וְחַגֹּתֶ֥ם חַ֛ג לַיהוָ֖ה שִׁבְעַ֥ת יָמִֽים׃

Transliteration

And on ḥămiššāh ʿāśār yôm to ḥōdeš the šəbîʿî, miqrāʾ-qōḏeš shall yihyeh to you, all-məleʾḵeṯ ʿăḇōḏāh not ṯaʿăśû; and ḥaggōṯem ḥag to YHWH seven yāmîm.

Grammar Details

• *ḥămiššāh ʿāśār*: number phrase - fifteen/fifteenth
• *yôm*: noun, masculine, singular - day
• *ḥōdeš*: noun, masculine, singular with definite article - the month
• *šəbîʿî*: adjective, masculine, singular with definite article - the seventh
• *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
• *ḥaggōṯem*: verb, qal perfect, 2nd person, masculine, plural - you shall celebrate
• *ḥag*: noun, masculine, singular - feast/festival
• *yāmîm*: noun, masculine, plural - days

Word Meanings

• *ḥămiššāh ʿāśār yôm*: fifteenth day
• *miqrāʾ-qōḏeš*: holy convocation/holy assembly/sacred gathering
• *məleʾḵeṯ ʿăḇōḏāh*: laborious work/servile work
• *ḥaggōṯem ḥag*: you shall celebrate a feast/you shall observe a festival

Referenced Verses

• Deut 16:13-14 : 13 You shall keep the feast of tents seven days, after that you have gathered in from your threshing floor and from your winepress: 14 and you shall rejoice in your feast, you, and your son, and your daughter, and your man-servant, and your maid-servant, and the Levite, and the foreigner, and the fatherless, and the widow, who are within your gates.
• Neh 8:14 : 14 They found written in the law, how that Yahweh had commanded by Moses, that the children of Israel should dwell in booths in the feast of the seventh month;
• Neh 8:18 : 18 Also day by day, from the first day to the last day, he read in the book of the law of God. They kept the feast seven days; and on the eighth day was a solemn assembly, according to the ordinance.
• Ezek 45:25 : 25 In the seventh [month], in the fifteenth day of the month, in the feast, shall he do the like the seven days; according to the sin-offering, according to the burnt offering, and according to the meal-offering, and according to the oil.
• Zech 14:16-19 : 16 It will happen that everyone who is left of all the nations that came against Jerusalem will go up from year to year to worship the King, Yahweh of Hosts, and to keep the feast of tents. 17 It will be, that whoever of all the families of the earth doesn't go up to Jerusalem to worship the King, Yahweh of Hosts, on them there will be no rain. 18 If the family of Egypt doesn't go up, and doesn't come, neither will it rain on them. This will be the plague with which Yahweh will strike the nations that don't go up to keep the feast of tents. 19 This will be the punishment of Egypt, and the punishment of all the nations that don't go up to keep the feast of tents.
• John 1:14 : 14 The Word became flesh, and lived among us. We saw his glory, such glory as of the one and only Son of the Father, full of grace and truth.
• Heb 11:9-9 : 9 By faith, he lived as an alien in the land of promise, as in a land not his own, dwelling in tents, with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise. 10 For he looked for the city which has the foundations, whose builder and maker is God. 11 By faith, even Sarah herself received power to conceive, and she bore a child when she was past age, since she counted him faithful who had promised. 12 Therefore as many as the stars of the sky in multitude, and as innumerable as the sand which is by the sea shore, were fathered by one man, and him as good as dead. 13 These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen{TR adds "and being convinced of"} them and embraced them from afar, and having confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth.
• Exod 23:16 : 16 And the feast of harvest, the first fruits of your labors, which you sow in the field: and the feast of harvest, at the end of the year, when you gather in your labors out of the field.
• Exod 34:22 : 22 You shall observe the feast of weeks with the first fruits of wheat harvest, and the feast of harvest at the year's end.
• Lev 23:33-43 : 33 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, 34 "Speak to the children of Israel, and say, 'On the fifteenth day of this seventh month is the feast of tents for seven days to Yahweh. 35 On the first day shall be a holy convocation: you shall do no regular work. 36 Seven days you shall offer an offering made by fire to Yahweh. On the eighth day shall be a holy convocation to you; and you shall offer an offering made by fire to Yahweh. It is a solemn assembly; you shall do no regular work. 37 "'These are the appointed feasts of Yahweh, which you shall proclaim to be holy convocations, to offer an offering made by fire to Yahweh, a burnt offering, and a meal offering, a sacrifice, and drink offerings, each on its own day; 38 besides the Sabbaths of Yahweh, and besides your gifts, and besides all your vows, and besides all your freewill offerings, which you give to Yahweh. 39 "'So on the fifteenth day of the seventh month, when you have gathered in the fruits of the land, you shall keep the feast of Yahweh seven days: on the first day shall be a solemn rest, and on the eighth day shall be a solemn rest. 40 You shall take on the first day the fruit of goodly trees, branches of palm trees, and boughs of thick trees, and willows of the brook; and you shall rejoice before Yahweh your God seven days. 41 You shall keep it a feast to Yahweh seven days in the year: it is a statute forever throughout your generations; you shall keep it in the seventh month. 42 You shall dwell in booths seven days. All who are native-born in Israel shall dwell in booths, 43 that your generations may know that I made the children of Israel to dwell in booths, when I brought them out of the land of Egypt. I am Yahweh your God.'"