King James Version
Numbers 29:7 in the King James Version says “And ye shall have on the tenth day of this seventh month an holy convocation; and ye shall afflict your souls: ye shall ...” — study this verse from Numbers chapter 29 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“And ye shall have on the tenth day of this seventh month an holy convocation; and ye shall afflict your souls: ye shall not do any work therein:”
Numbers 29:7 · KJV
And one kid of the goats for a sin offering, to make an atonement for you:
Beside the burnt offering of the month, and his meat offering, and the daily burnt offering, and his meat offering, and their drink offerings, according unto their manner, for a sweet savour, a sacrifice made by fire unto the LORD.
And ye shall have on the tenth day of this seventh month an holy convocation; and ye shall afflict your souls: ye shall not do any work therein:
But ye shall offer a burnt offering unto the LORD for a sweet savour; one young bullock, one ram, and seven lambs of the first year; they shall be unto you without blemish:
And their meat offering shall be of flour mingled with oil, three tenth deals to a bullock, and two tenth deals to one ram,
KJV Study — Public Domain
“And ye shall have on the tenth”
H6218ten; by abbreviated form ten strings, and so a decachord
“convocation”
H4744something called out, i.e., a public meeting (the act, the persons, or the place); also a rehearsal
to exist, i.e., be or become, come to pass (always emphatic, and not a mere copula or auxiliary)
“and ye shall afflict”
H6031to depress literally or figuratively, transitive or intransitive (in various applications, as follows)
properly, self (but generally used to point out more definitely the object of a verb or preposition, even or namely)
“your souls”
H5315properly, a breathing creature, i.e., animal of (abstractly) vitality; used very widely in a literal, accommodated or figurative sense (bodily or ment
properly, the whole; hence, all, any or every (in the singular only, but often in a plural sense)
“any work”
H4399properly, deputyship, i.e., ministry; generally, employment (never servile) or work (abstractly or concretely); also property (as the result of labor)
not (the simple or abs. negation); by implication, no; often used with other particles
“ye shall not do”
H6213to do or make, in the broadest sense and widest application
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