What Does Hebrews 13:11 Mean?
For the bodies of those living ones, whose blood is carried into the set-apart places by the high priest for falling short, are burned outside the camp.
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King James wording
King James Version
For the bodies of those beasts, whose blood is brought into the sanctuary by the high priest for sin, are burned without the camp.THE KEY
The offering moves in two opposite directions at once: its blood is carried into the sanctuary while its bodies are burned beyond the camp.
THE MEANING
The verse makes the missing visible as a paired motion: blood is carried into the sanctuary, while the bodies are burned beyond the camp. One part is brought within; the bodies themselves are taken outside. The reader sees approach and removal held together in the same offering.
THE ROOT
ἁμαρτία
hamartia
GROWS FROM
ἁμαρτ- (hamart-), from ἁμαρτάνω (hamartanō)
To miss, err, or fail to reach.
“falling short” in this verse is hamartia. Here hamartia names what the offering concerns: the missing. Its word family carries the sense of missing or failing to reach, while the verse shows a body going out as blood is brought in.
ALSO GROWS
hamartanō: To miss or err.
ἁμαρτάνω
This verb makes the sense inside “sin” audible: the missing is something that has gone astray or fallen short.
hamartōlos: A sinner; one who misses.
ἁμαρτωλός
The related word describes a person through the same language of missing, linking the condition to the root’s action.
hamartēma: A miss, error, or wrongdoing.
ἁμάρτημα
This noun names a particular instance of missing, showing the same root at work in both an act and what the offering concerns.
THE PATTERN
The handling of the missing joins inward approach with outward removal: blood enters the holy place while a body crosses beyond the camp.
The bullock and the goat, the offerings for falling short, whose blood is brought within to make a covering in the set-apart place, one carries outside the camp. And they burn in the fire their skins, and their flesh, and their dung.So Jesus also, that he might set the people apart through his own blood, suffered outside the gate.Who himself carried our shortcomings in his own body on the tree, that we, dead to shortcomings, might live to alignment; and by his bruises you were healed.THE THREAD
So Jesus also, that he might set the people apart through his own blood, suffered outside the gate.The bodies in this verse are burned outside the camp; the next verse places Jesus’ suffering outside the gate and names his blood. That shared outside boundary connects the animal offering’s two directions to the passage that follows.
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