Numbers 29:1 — meaning, Hebrew and Greek word study, commentary
Numbers 29:1
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.
the new moon · preposition with the article + noun, common masculine singular absolute
holy
קֹ֙דֶשׁ֙ko.desh
H6944
a sacred place or thing · noun, common masculine singular absolute
convocation
מִֽקְרָאmik.ra'-
H4744
something called out · noun, common masculine singular construct
do
תַעֲשׂ֑וּta.'a.Su
H6213
to do or make · verb, qal imperfect, 2nd person masculine plural
servile
עֲבֹדָ֖ה'a.vo.Dah
H5656
work of any kind · noun, common feminine singular absolute
work
מְלֶ֥אכֶתme.Le.khet
H4399
properly · noun, common feminine singular construct
day
י֥וֹםYom
H3117
a day (as the warm hours) · noun, common masculine singular construct
blowing
תְּרוּעָ֖הte.ru.'Ah
H8643
clamor · noun, common feminine singular absolute
Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890/1894), public domain; digitized by Open Scriptures (CC BY-SA). KJV word tagging: eBible.org (public domain). Original-language text, parsing and brief lexicon: STEPBible.org data from Tyndale House, Cambridge (CC BY 4.0).
Cross-references
Leviticus 23:24-25 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 blowi…
1 Chronicles 15:28 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 cymb…
Ezra 3:6 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…
Psalms 89:15 Blessed is the people that know the joyful sound: they shall walk, O LORD, in the light of thy countenance.
Isaiah 27:13 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…
Zechariah 9:14 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 w…
Mark 16:15-16 And he said unto them, Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature.
Cross-references from OpenBible.info (CC BY), in the lineage of the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (public domain).
Commentary
Matthew Henry on Numbers 29:1-11
There were more sacred solemnities in the seventh month than in any other month of the year, not only because it had been the first month till the deliverance of Israel out of Egypt (which, falling in the month Abib, occasioned that to be thenceforth made the beginning of the months in all ecclesiastical computations), but because still it continued the first month in the civil reckonings of the jubilees and years of release, and also because it was the time of vacation between harvest and seedtime, when they had most leisure to attend the sanctuary, which intimates that, though God will dispense with sacrifices in consideration of works of necessity and mercy, yet the more leisure we have f…
And in the seventh month,.... The month Tisri, as the Targum of Jonathan, which answers to part of our September and October; a month famous for days to be religiously observed, having more of them in it than any other month in the year:
on the first day of the month, ye shall have a holy convocation; see Leviticus 23:24,
ye shall do no servile work; therefore, in the place referred to, is called a sabbath:
it is a day of blowing the trumpets unto you; of which; see Gill on Leviticus 23:24.
John Calvin on Numbers 29:1-6
And in the seventh month. I have already observed that the festivals are not here (generally) treated of, but only the sacrifices, by which their solemnization was to be graced. In the beginning of the seventh month was the memorial, as it was called, of the blowing of trumpets. Because it was a minor festival, Moses only commands one bullock to be killed; but the number was increased on other grounds, for we have already seen that on the first of every month two bullocks were sacrificed. This day, therefore, had three larger victims, whilst the number of the others was doubled, so that there were two rams and fourteen lambs. Thus, then, God consecrated this day doubly to Himself, so that on…
Then next follows the festival of the sevenths. For just as among the days every seventh day is observed as a sabbath and is a festival, so also among the months every seventh month is the sabbath of the months. There is therefore kept in it the festival which is called the sabbath of sabbaths, and on the first day of the month there is made the memorial of trumpets. But who is it that keeps the festival of the memorial of trumpets, except he who is able to commit to memory the prophetic and evangelical and apostolic scriptures, which sound forth like a certain heavenly trumpet, and to store them up within the treasury of his heart? He therefore who does this, and meditates on the law of God day and night, this man keeps the festival of the memorial of trumpets. But also, if anyone is able to merit those graces of the Holy Spirit by which the prophets were inspired, and to say, singing psalms: "Sound the trumpet at the beginning of the month, on the day of its notable solemnity," and he who knows how to make a joyful noise in the psalms, he worthily keeps to God the solemnity of the trumpets.
After these, in the seventh month other festivals are celebrated. "On the first day of the month" there is the new moon of trumpets, just as it says in the psalm, "Play the trumpet at the beginning of the month." But "on the tenth day of the seventh month" there is the festival of atonement. Only "on this day" is the high priest dressed with all the pontifical garments. Then he is dressed in "the manifestation and truth." Then he goes into that inaccessible place where he can approach only "once a year," that is, into "the Holy of Holies." For "once a year" the high priest, leaving the people behind, enters that place where "the mercy seat" is, and above "the mercy seat is the cherubim," where "the ark of testimony" and "the altar of incense" are, where no one is permitted to enter except the high priest alone.Therefore if I should consider how the true "high priest," my Lord Jesus Christ, having indeed been placed in the flesh, was with the people all year, that year about which he himself says, "He sent me to proclaim good news to the poor and to announce the acceptable year of the Lord and the day of forgiveness," I perceive how "once in" this "year" on the day of atonement he enters into "the Holy of Holies." That is, when with his dispensation fulfilled "he penetrates the heavens" and goes to the Father to make atonement for the human race and prays for all those who believe in him.
The Church Fathers: public-domain translations (Ante-Nicene and Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers), verse-indexed by SermonIndex (CC BY 4.0).
Dictionary and topics
Convocation — A meeting of a religious character as distinguished from congregation, which was more general, dealing with political and legal matters. Hence it is called an “holy convocation.” Such convocations…
Festivals, Religious — There were daily (Lev. 23), weekly, monthly, and yearly festivals, and great stress was laid on the regular observance of them in every particular (Num. 28:1-8; Ex. 29:38-42; Lev. 6:8-23; Ex. 30:7-9;…
Lambs — are the young of sheep, but originally included also the young of goats. They formed an important part of almost every sacrifice. (Exodus 29:38-41; Numbers 28:9,11; 29,13-40) etc. [On the paschal…
Sacrifice — The offering up of sacrifices is to be regarded as a divine institution. It did not originate with man. God himself appointed it as the mode in which acceptable worship was to be offered to him by…
Sin-offering — (Heb. hattath), the law of, is given in detail in Lev. 4-6:13; 9:7-11, 22-24; 12:6-8; 15:2, 14, 25-30; 14:19, 31; Num. 6:10-14. On the day of Atonement it was made with special solemnity (Lev. 16:5,…
Trumpets, Feast of — Was celebrated at the beginning of the month Tisri, the first month of the civil year. It received its name from the circumstances that the trumpets usually blown at the commencement of each month…
Feasts Of Trumpets, The · Held the first day of seventh month — Held the first day of seventh month
Rest · The an — The an
Sanitation · REST COMMAN — REST COMMAN
Trumpets · .When and how observed — .When and how observed
Dictionary: Easton's (1897) and Smith's (1863), public domain. Topics: Nave's Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey's Topical Textbook (1897), public domain. Both as parsed by NEUU (CC BY 4.0).
