What Does Exodus 25:14 Mean in the King James?
And thou shalt put the staves into the rings by the sides of the ark, that the ark may be borne with them.
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 ark’s weight moves through a fitted connection, staves entering rings, so it is carried by design, not force alone.
THE MEANING
The staves are brought into the rings at the ark’s sides, creating the path through which its weight reaches the bearers. What is sacred becomes movable through supports fitted to carry it. That pattern is alive wherever something weighty passes through a structure made to bear it.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
It undoes the belief that a sacred weight moves by strength alone: here the ark is carried through poles fitted into rings.
THE ROOT
לָשֵׂאת
laset
GROWS FROM
נשא
nasa
Lift, raise, carry, bear.
“borne” in this verse is laset. The same root holds the lifting of a weight and the bearing of it away. In this verse, the ark’s weight is carried through supports; elsewhere, the root can describe carrying away crookedness, a form of release.
ALSO GROWS
nasi: A leader or prince, traditionally understood as one lifted up.
נָשִׂיא
The lifting sense sits inside the word for carrying: the ark is borne by being raised onto its appointed supports.
nose avon: To bear or remove עָוֹן (avon, crookedness); a form of release.
נֹשֵׂא עָוֹן
The root can treat what weighs on someone as something borne away, extending this verse’s image of carrying beyond physical weight.
וְהֵבֵאתָ
ve-heveita
GROWS FROM
בוא
bo
Come or enter; in the causative form, bring or cause to enter.
Under “put” is a verb of bringing into: the staves enter the rings, and that fit comes before the carrying. The word keeps visible the movement into a structure that can bear the ark’s weight.
ALSO GROWS
ba: Came, entered, or arrived.
בָּא
The staves’ movement into the rings echoes the root’s basic motion of entering.
hevi: Brought or caused to enter.
הֵבִיא
The verse uses this causative shape: the poles are brought into their carrying position.
THE PATTERN
Weight becomes bearable when it is carried through a fitting support or a willing bearer.
But unto the sons of Kohath he gave none: because the service of the sanctuary belonging unto them was that they should bear upon their shoulders.Bear ye one another’s burdens, and so fulfil the law of Christ.And even to your old age I am he; and even to hoar hairs will I carry you: I have made, and I will bear; even I will carry, and will deliver you.THE THREAD
So shall ye say unto Joseph, Forgive, I pray thee now, the trespass of thy brethren, and their sin; for they did unto thee evil: and now, we pray thee, forgive the trespass of the servants of the God of thy father. And Joseph wept when they spake unto him.The KJV’s “forgive” here uses the same נשא (nasa, lift, carry, bear) root as “borne” in the ark verse; the wrong named פֶּשַׁע (pesha, rebellion) is treated as something that can be carried away. The root opens physical bearing into release.
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