Numbers 6:12

And he shall consecrate unto the LORD the days of his separation, and shall bring a lamb of the first year for a trespass offering: but the days that were before shall be lost, because his separation was defiled.

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Word by word — the Hebrew

Word	Hebrew	Strong’s	Meaning
consecrate	וְהִזִּ֤יר ve.hi.Zir	H5144	to hold aloof · conjunction + verb, hiphil sequential perfect, 3rd person masculine singular
LORD	לַֽיהוָה֙ la.Yah.weh	H3068	Jehovah · preposition + proper noun, a title
days	יְמֵ֣י ye.Mei	H3117	a day (as the warm hours) · noun, common masculine plural construct
separation	נִזְר֔וֹ niz.Ro	H5145	properly · noun, common masculine singular construct + pronominal suffix, 3rd person masculine singular
bring	וְהֵבִ֛יא ve.he.Vi'	H935	to go or come (in a wide variety of applications) · conjunction + verb, hiphil sequential perfect, 3rd person masculine singular
lamb	כֶּ֥בֶשׂ Ke.ves	H3532	a ram (just old enough to butt) · noun, common masculine singular absolute
first	בֶּן ben-	H1121	a son (as a builder of the family name) · noun, common masculine singular construct
year	שְׁנָת֖וֹ she.na.To	H8141	a year (as a revolution of time) · noun, common feminine singular construct + pronominal suffix, 3rd person masculine singular
offering	לְאָשָׁ֑ם le.'a.Sham	H817	guilt · preposition + noun, common masculine singular absolute
days	וְהַיָּמִ֤ים ve.hai.ya.Mim	H3117	a day (as the warm hours) · conjunction + definite article + noun, common masculine plural absolute
before	הָרִאשֹׁנִים֙ ha.ri.sho.Nim	H7223	first · definite article + ordinal number, masculine plural absolute
lost	יִפְּל֔וּ yi.pe.Lu	H5307	to fall · verb, qal imperfect, 3rd person masculine plural
separation	נִזְרֽוֹ niz.Ro	H5145	properly · noun, common masculine singular construct + pronominal suffix, 3rd person masculine singular
defiled	טָמֵ֖א ta.Me'	H2930	to be foul · verb, qal perfect, 3rd person masculine singular

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 5:6 And he shall bring his trespass offering unto the LORD for his sin which he hath sinned, a female from the flock, a lamb or a kid of the goa…
Leviticus 14:24 And the priest shall take the lamb of the trespass offering, and the log of oil, and the priest shall wave them for a wave offering before t…
Ezekiel 18:24 But when the righteous turneth away from his righteousness, and committeth iniquity, and doeth according to all the abominations that the wi…
Matthew 3:15 And Jesus answering said unto him, Suffer it to be so now: for thus it becometh us to fulfil all righteousness. Then he suffered him.
Matthew 24:13 But he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved.
John 8:29-31 And he that sent me is with me: the Father hath not left me alone; for I do always those things that please him.
James 2:10 For whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet offend in one point, he is guilty of all.
2 John 1:8 Look to yourselves, that we lose not those things which we have wrought, but that we receive a full reward.

Cross-references from OpenBible.info (CC BY), in the lineage of the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (public domain).

Commentary

Matthew Henry on Numbers 6:1-21

After the law for the discovery and shame of those that by sin had made themselves vile, fitly follows this for the direction and encouragement of those who by their eminent piety and devotion had made themselves honourable, and distinguished themselves from their neighbours. It is very probable that there were those before the making of this law who went under the character of Nazarites, and were celebrated by that title as persons professing greater strictness and zeal in religion than other people; for the vow of a Nazarite is spoken of here as a thing already well known, but the obligation of it is reduced to a greater certainty than hitherto it had been. Joseph is called a Nazarite amon…

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Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Numbers 6:9

If any man die very suddenly by him, and he hath defiled the head of his consecration--Cases of sudden death might occur to make him contract pollution; and in such circumstances he was required, after shaving his head, to make the prescribed offerings necessary for the removal of ceremonial defilement (Lev 15:13; Num 19:11). But by the terms of this law an accidental defilement vitiated the whole of his previous observances, and he was required to begin the period of his Nazaritism afresh. But even this full completion did not supersede the necessity of a sin offering at the close. Sin mingles with our best and holiest performances, and the blood of sprinkling is necessary to procure accept…

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John Gill on Numbers 6:12

And he shall consecrate unto the Lord the days of his separation,.... He was to begin his account again, from the time of his shaving his head, and devote as many days to the service of the Lord as what he had vowed before: and shall bring a lamb of the first year for a trespass offering; we see how much trouble and expense were brought by a single act of pollution, and that involuntary too; how much more need is there of an atoning sacrifice for the sins of men, even for all of them, and for which only the sacrifice of Christ is sufficient? but the days that were before shall be lost; which were before the pollution, how near soever the time of Nazariteship being at an end was, whether hi…

Dictionary and topics

John the Baptist — The “forerunner of our Lord.” We have but fragmentary and imperfect accounts of him in the Gospels. He was of priestly descent. His father, Zacharias, was a priest of the course of Abia (1 Chr.…
Lamb — (1.) Heb. kebes, a male lamb from the first to the third year. Offered daily at the morning and the evening sacrifice (Ex. 29:38-42), on the Sabbath day (Num. 28:9), at the feast of the New Moon…
Nazarite — (Heb. form Nazirite), the name of such Israelites as took on them the vow prescribed in Num. 6:2-21. The word denotes generally one who is separated from others and consecrated to God. Although there…
Samson — Of the sun, the son of Manoah, born at Zorah. The narrative of his life is given in Judg. 13-16. He was a “Nazarite unto God” from his birth, the first Nazarite mentioned in Scripture (Judg. 13:3-5;…
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,…
Fraternity · .The Nazarites, vows of — .The Nazarites, vows of
Lamb · Offering of — Offering of
Nazarite · Law concerning — Law concerning
Nazarites · Defiled during vow: To recompense their vow with a trespass offering — Defiled during vow: To recompense their vow with a trespass offering
Trespass Offering · Special occasions of offering: Purification of Nazarites who had broken their vow — Special occasions of offering: Purification of Nazarites who had broken their vow

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).

Numbers 6:12

Word by word — the Hebrew

Cross-references

Commentary

Matthew Henry on Numbers 6:1-21

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Numbers 6:9

John Gill on Numbers 6:12

Dictionary and topics

Numbers 6:12

Word by word — the Hebrew

Cross-references

Commentary

Matthew Henry on Numbers 6:1-21

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Numbers 6:9

John Gill on Numbers 6:12

Dictionary and topics

John Calvin on Numbers 6:1-21

Keil & Delitzsch on Numbers 6:1-21

Tyndale Open Study Notes on Numbers 6:9-21

Rashi on Numbers 6:12