King James Version
Numbers 6:8 in the King James Version says “All the days of his separation he is holy unto the LORD.” — study this verse from Numbers chapter 6 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“All the days of his separation he is holy unto the LORD.”
Numbers 6:8 · KJV
All the days that he separateth himself unto the LORD he shall come at no dead body.
He shall not make himself unclean for his father, or for his mother, for his brother, or for his sister, when they die: because the consecration of his God is upon his head. consecration: Heb. separation
All the days of his separation he is holy unto the LORD.
And if any man die very suddenly by him, and he hath defiled the head of his consecration; then he shall shave his head in the day of his cleansing, on the seventh day shall he shave it.
And on the eighth day he shall bring two turtles, or two young pigeons, to the priest, to the door of the tabernacle of the congregation:
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properly, the whole; hence, all, any or every (in the singular only, but often in a plural sense)
“All the days”
H3117a day (as the warm hours), whether literal (from sunrise to sunset, or from one sunset to the next), or figurative (a space of time defined by an asso
“of his separation”
H5145properly, something set apart, i.e., (abstractly) dedication (of a priet or nazirite); hence (concretely) unshorn locks; also (by implication) a chapl
“he is holy”
H6918sacred (ceremonially or morally); (as noun) god (by eminence), an angel, a saint, a sanctuary
he (she or it); only expressed when emphatic or without a verb; also (intensively) self, or (especially with the article) the same; sometimes (as demo
“unto the LORD”
H3068(the) self-existent or eternal; jeho-vah, jewish national name of god
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