King James Version
Numbers 7:20 in the King James Version says “One spoon of gold of ten shekels, full of incense:” — study this verse from Numbers chapter 7 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“One spoon of gold of ten shekels, full of incense:”
Numbers 7:20 · KJV
On the second day Nethaneel the son of Zuar, prince of Issachar, did offer:
He offered for his offering one silver charger, the weight whereof was an hundred and thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mingled with oil for a meat offering:
One spoon of gold of ten shekels, full of incense:
One young bullock, one ram, one lamb of the first year, for a burnt offering:
One kid of the goats for a sin offering:
KJV Study — Public Domain
“spoon”
H3709the hollow hand or palm (so of the paw of an animal, of the sole, and even of the bowl of a dish or sling, the handle of a bolt, the leaves of a palm-
“of gold”
H2091gold, figuratively, something gold-colored (i.e., yellow), as oil, a clear sky
“shekels full”
H4392full (literally or figuratively) or filling (literally); also (concretely) fulness; adverbially, fully
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