What Does Daniel 8:14 Mean in the King James?
And he said unto me, Unto two thousand and three hundred days; then shall the sanctuary be cleansed.
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’s word for cleansing comes from the root of alignment, so the sanctuary’s restoration is a return to right order.
THE MEANING
For the reader now, the verse holds a measured span and an endpoint: the set-apart place is restored to alignment. Restoration is concrete here, a sacred place returning to right order.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
The verse loosens the belief that what has been defiled can never return to right order; it names alignment as the sanctuary’s endpoint.
THE ROOT
וְנִצְדַּק
wenitsdaq
GROWS FROM
צ־ד־ק
ṣ-d-q
to be right, just, or aligned
“cleansed” in this verse is wenitsdaq. The form carries the sense of being set right or vindicated; its root also names alignment and the one who is aligned. So the sanctuary’s cleansing carries the additional sense of restoration into right order.
ALSO GROWS
tsedeq: rightness, justice, alignment
צֶדֶק
The sanctuary’s cleansing belongs to the same family of rightness and alignment.
tsaddiq: a righteous or aligned person
צַדִּיק
This branch shows the root describing a state of alignment in a person as well as in the sanctuary.
קֹדֶשׁ
qodesh
GROWS FROM
ק־ד־שׁ
q-d-sh
to be set apart, sacred
The sanctuary is the set-apart place, named for its sacred distinction. Paired with the root of alignment, the verse pictures restoration as the set-apart place returning to right order.
ALSO GROWS
qadosh: set apart, sacred
קָדוֹשׁ
The sanctuary’s identity is expressed through the same root: it is a place set apart.
qiddesh: to set apart, consecrate
קִדֵּשׁ
This branch describes the act of establishing something as sacred, clarifying what is restored when the sanctuary is put right.
THE PATTERN
What is set apart can be restored after defilement through cleansing that returns it to sacred order.
And he shall sprinkle of the blood upon it with his finger seven times, and cleanse it, and hallow it from the uncleanness of the children of Israel.Seven days shall they purge the altar and purify it; and they shall consecrate themselves.It was therefore necessary that the patterns of things in the heavens should be purified with these; but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these.THE THREAD
Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people and upon thy holy city, to finish the transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up the vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most Holy.The word rendered “righteousness” in Daniel 9:24 comes from the same ṣ-d-q root as the sanctuary’s cleansing in this verse. The shared root opens the cleansing as a movement into alignment that extends beyond the sacred place.
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