Numbers 7:79

קָרְבָּנוֹ קַֽעֲרַת־כֶּסֶף אַחַת שְׁלֹשִׁים וּמֵאָה מִשְׁקָלָהּ מִזְרָק אֶחָד כֶּסֶף שִׁבְעִים שֶׁקֶל בְּשֶׁקֶל הַקֹּדֶשׁ שְׁנֵיהֶם׀ מְלֵאִים סֹלֶת בְּלוּלָה בַשֶּׁמֶן לְמִנְחָֽה׃

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Hebrew

קָרְבָּנ֞וֹ קַֽעֲרַת־כֶּ֣סֶף אַחַ֗ת שְׁלֹשִׁ֣ים וּמֵאָה֮ מִשְׁקָלָהּ֒ מִזְרָ֤ק אֶחָד֙ כֶּ֔סֶף שִׁבְעִ֥ים שֶׁ֖קֶל בְּשֶׁ֣קֶל הַקֹּ֑דֶשׁ שְׁנֵיהֶ֣ם׀ מְלֵאִ֗ים סֹ֛לֶת בְּלוּלָ֥ה בַשֶּׁ֖מֶן לְמִנְחָֽה׃

Greek (Septuagint)

τὸ δῶρον αὐτοῦ τρύβλιον ἀργυροῦν ἕν, τριάκοντα καὶ ἑκατὸν ὁλκὴ αὐτοῦ, φιάλην μίαν ἀργυρᾶν, ἑβδομήκοντα σίκλων κατὰ τὸν σίκλον τὸν ἅγιον, ἀμφότερα πλήρη σεμιδάλεως ἀναπεποιημένης ἐν ἐλαίῳ εἰς θυσίαν.

Greek text from Swete's edition, CC BY-SA 4.0

Latin (Vulgate)

obtulit acetabulum argenteum appendens centum triginta siclos, phialam argenteam habentem septuaginta siclos, ad pondus sanctuarii, utrumque plenum simila oleo conspersa in sacrificum:

Spanish

presentó su ofrenda: una bandeja de plata, con un peso de ciento treinta siclos, un tazón de plata de setenta siclos, según el peso del santuario, ambos llenos de harina fina amasada con aceite para una ofrenda de grano;

Classic Spanish (Reina-Valera 1909)

Y su ofrenda, un plato de plata de ciento y treinta siclos de peso, un jarro de plata de setenta siclos, al siclo del santuario; ambos llenos de flor de harina amasada con aceite para presente;

English

His offering was one silver platter weighing a hundred and thirty shekels, and one silver bowl weighing seventy shekels, both according to the sanctuary shekel and filled with fine flour mixed with oil for a grain offering;

✦ What the text says

Summary

The verse records the silver vessels offered by one tribal leader as part of the dedication offerings: a silver dish weighing 130 shekels and a silver bowl weighing 70 shekels, both weighed by the sanctuary standard and filled with fine flour mixed with oil for a grain offering.

Key words

korbano ("his offering", H7133A) — construct noun with pronominal suffix, literally "offering of-him," naming the whole gift before its components are listed.
qa'arat ("dish of", H7086) — feminine singular construct, linking directly to kesef ("silver," H3701G) to form "dish of silver."
mizraq ("bowl", H4219) — masculine singular construct, parallel in structure to qa'arat, introducing the second vessel.
sheqel haqodesh ("shekel of the holy place", H8255 + H6944G) — construct phrase specifying the standard of weight, not an ordinary shekel but one tied to sanctuary usage.
belulah ("mixed", H1101A) — Qal passive participle feminine singular, describing the flour as having been mixed with oil, a completed state rather than an ongoing action.

What the text says

The Hebrew sentence is built almost entirely through construct chains rather than finite verbs: qa'arat-kesef ("dish-of-silver"), mizraq... kesef ("bowl... silver"), and sheqel haqodesh ("shekel-of-the-holy-place"). This chaining allows the text to pile up descriptive nouns without needing verbs like "weighing" — the weight itself is expressed through the noun mishqalah ("its weight," H4948) with a feminine suffix referring back to the dish. The numerals follow the ones-then-tens pattern typical of Biblical Hebrew: shelоshim u-meah ("thirty and hundred") for 130, and shiv'im sheqel ("seventy shekel") for 70, rather than the English-style "hundred thirty."

The dual form sheneihem ("both of them," H8147 with suffix H9028) grammatically unites the two vessels as a single referent for the following adjective me'leim ("full," H4392), so that "full" and "mixed" describe both containers at once rather than being repeated for each. The participle belulah is passive, marking the flour as already prepared before being placed in the vessels, not something being mixed at the moment of offering.

Differences between versions

The LXX renders qa'arat as τρύβλιον ("dish/platter") and mizraq as φιάλην ("bowl"), matching the Hebrew's two distinct vessel-nouns. The Vulgate uses acetabulum ("small vinegar-dish") and phialam ("bowl"), terms with slightly different domestic connotations than the Hebrew's cultic vessel names. Where the Hebrew states mishqalah ("its weight") as a separate construct noun, the LXX supplies ὁλκὴ αὐτοῦ ("its weight") similarly, while the Vulgate folds the weight directly into the participle appendens ("weighing"), collapsing the Hebrew's two-step noun structure into one verbal phrase.

This explanation describes the text using linguistic data; it adds no doctrine or confessional interpretation.