What Does 2 Chronicles 7:7 Mean in the King James?
Moreover Solomon hallowed the middle of the court that was before the house of the LORD: for there he offered burnt offerings, and the fat of the peace offerings, because the brasen altar which Solomon had made was not able to receive the burnt offerings, and the meat offerings, and the fat.
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 offering outgrows its altar, and the court itself becomes set apart to receive it.
THE MEANING
Sacredness reaches into the court because the altar cannot contain all that is brought. The offerings carry two movements in their names: ascent and wholeness. The set-apart space widens around what the altar cannot hold.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
It undoes the belief that what cannot fit the designated altar must remain outside sacred space: the court itself is set apart to receive it.
THE ROOT
וַיְקַדֵּשׁ
wayqaddēsh
GROWS FROM
ק־ד־שׁ
q-d-sh
set apart, mark as sacred
“hallowed” in this verse is wayqaddēsh. The verb names an act of setting apart the center of the court, so consecration reaches beyond the altar. Its root also names the set-apart quality and the sanctuary, tying sacredness to a marked place.
ALSO GROWS
qādōsh: set apart
קָדוֹשׁ
The same root names the quality of a place marked off for God.
qōdesh: sacredness, set-apartness
קֹדֶשׁ
The verb here makes sacredness an act that reaches the court’s center.
miqdāsh: sanctuary, set-apart place
מִקְדָּשׁ
The court is marked by the same root that names a sanctuary.
עֹלוֹת
ʿōlōt
GROWS FROM
ע־ל־ה
ʿ-l-h
ascend, go up
“burnt offerings” in this verse is ʿōlōt. The word for burnt offering belongs to the root meaning “ascend.” In this verse, the offering named by ascent exceeds the altar’s capacity, and the court is set apart around it.
ALSO GROWS
ʿālāh: ascend, go up
עָלָה
This verb gives the offering its name, placing a movement of rising inside the rite’s vocabulary.
ʿăliyyāh: ascent, going up
עֲלִיָּה
This noun carries the same upward movement as a thing or action, echoing the offering as ascent.
שְׁלָמִים
shelāmîm
GROWS FROM
ש־ל־ם
sh-l-m
be whole, complete
“peace offerings” in this verse is shelāmîm. The name of these offerings comes from the family of completeness and wholeness. “Peace” here carries that wider resonance alongside the ascent named by the burnt offering.
ALSO GROWS
shalom: wholeness, well-being
שָׁלוֹם
This familiar branch of the root carries the offering’s connection to wholeness.
shalem: whole, complete
שָׁלֵם
This adjective makes the root’s sense of completeness explicit.
THE PATTERN
An offering’s place of reception can itself be set apart, and sacred space can widen when the appointed altar cannot contain what is brought.
Seven days thou shalt make an atonement for the altar, and sanctify it; and it shall be an altar most holy: whatsoever toucheth the altar shall be holy.The same day did the king hallow the middle of the court that was before the house of the LORD: for there he offered burnt offerings, and meat offerings, and the fat of the peace offerings: because the brasen altar that was before the LORD was too little to receive the burnt offerings, and meat offerings, and the fat of the peace offerings.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.THE THREAD
And Noah builded an altar unto the LORD; and took of every clean beast, and of every clean fowl, and offered burnt offerings on the altar.The shared word is עֹלוֹת (ʿōlōt, “burnt offerings”), the plural of עֹלָה (ʿōlāh, “that which ascends”), from עָלָה (ʿālāh, “ascend, go up”). Genesis places the ascent on an altar; here it exceeds the bronze altar’s capacity, and the court is set apart around it.
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