Numbers 7:69

Summary

The verse lists three animals designated as a burnt offering: a young bull, a ram, and a one-year-old lamb. Each animal is marked as singular by the numeral "one," and the lamb's age is specified through a construct phrase meaning "son of its year."

Key words

• par ("a young bull", H6499) — masculine singular noun, the first animal in the offering list.
• 'echad ("one", H0259) — cardinal number repeated three times (words 2, 6, 8), each time confirming a single animal of each kind, despite being grammatically feminine while modifying masculine nouns.
• ben ("a young one of / son of", H1121) — construct noun appearing twice: once in ben-baqar ("young one of cattle", specifying the bull's category) and once in ben-shenato ("son of its year", specifying the lamb's age).
• shenato ("its year", H8141 + H9023) — construct noun with a pronominal suffix, meaning literally "the year of it," used idiomatically to indicate the lamb is one year old.
• 'olah ("a burnt offering", H5930A) — feminine singular noun preceded by the preposition le ("to", H9005), indicating the purpose for which the animals are designated.

What the text says

The Hebrew sentence is a simple list with no verb, structured as three animal-plus-number units followed by a purpose clause. Each animal (par, 'ayil, kesev) is immediately followed by the numeral 'echad, a construction that in Biblical Hebrew places the number after the noun it counts rather than before, as is typical for the numeral "one."

The phrase ben-baqar uses the construct noun ben ("young one of," H1121H) to specify that the par belongs to the category of cattle — literally "a bull, offspring of cattle." A different but related construction appears with the lamb: ben-shenato ("son of its year," H1121L + H8141 + H9023) is an idiom expressing age, meaning the lamb is one year old, with the possessive suffix -o ("its") referring back to the lamb itself.

The final two words, le-'olah ("for a burnt offering"), attach the preposition le to the noun 'olah, indicating that all three animals just listed are designated for this single offering type. The sentence has no main verb because it functions as an inventory item within a longer list of tribal offerings.