What Does 2 Chronicles 29:33 Mean in the King James?

And the consecrated things were six hundred oxen and three thousand sheep.

2 Chronicles 29:33 · KJV

The analysis reads the King James wording.

King James Version The King James Version, first published in 1611. Selah Verse shows the standard text.

THE KEY

The verse calls the animals themselves “the set-apart ones,” making sacredness visible in what is given over.

THE MEANING

Set-apartness has material form here: the oxen and sheep are named as assigned to sacred use, not left as an abstract intention. The count makes its scale visible, six hundred oxen and three thousand sheep.

WHAT THIS UNDOES

The verse undoes the belief that setting something apart is only an inward intention; here it has countable, material form.

THE ROOT

הַקֳּדָשִׁים

ha-qodashim

GROWS FROM

ק־ד־שׁ

q-d-sh

Set apart; be or make sacred.

“consecrated things” in this verse is ha-qodashim. Qodashim means “set-apart things,” from the root q-d-sh. The root keeps consecration connected to a tangible distinction: these animals are set apart for sacred use.

ALSO GROWS

qadash: Be set apart; consecrate.

קָדַשׁ

The verb names the act behind the animals being called consecrated.

miqdash: Sanctuary; a set-apart place.

מִקְדָּשׁ

The sanctuary shares the same root, linking what is set apart with the place devoted to sacred use.

THE PATTERN

What is set apart becomes visible in what is assigned to sacred use.

Sanctify unto me all the firstborn, whatsoever openeth the womb among the children of Israel, both of man and of beast: it is mine.

Exodus 13:2 · KJVThe firstborn are marked as the LORD’s, making set-apartness a concrete belonging.

I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.

Romans 12:1 · KJVThe body itself is presented as a living sacrifice, giving set-apartness an embodied form.

Ye also, as lively stones, are built up a spiritual house, an holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ.

1 Peter 2:5 · KJVThe priesthood is set apart to offer sacrifices, carrying the pattern into shared life.

THE THREAD

Sanctify unto me all the firstborn, whatsoever openeth the womb among the children of Israel, both of man and of beast: it is mine.

Exodus 13:2 · KJV

“Sanctify” comes from the same q-d-sh root as “consecrated things” in this verse. Exodus names what is set apart as belonging to the LORD; Chronicles shows that setting-apart in a counted offering.

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