What Does Exodus 28:42 Mean in the King James?
And thou shalt make them linen breeches to cover their nakedness; from the loins even unto the thighs they shall reach:
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
Here covering has a measured reach: it draws a clear boundary around the body’s exposed span, from loins to thighs.
THE MEANING
Your body’s exposed middle is met by a tangible covering whose reach runs from the loins to the thighs. The fabric gives protection a defined, physical boundary around the flesh named as nakedness.
THE ROOT
לְכַסּוֹת
lekhasot
GROWS FROM
כסה
cover; conceal from view
“cover” in this verse is lekhasot. The root links the act of covering with the state of being covered. This garment moves the flesh named as nakedness into that covered state, with the body’s reach specified.
ALSO GROWS
kāsâ: cover; conceal
כָּסָה
This is the verb’s basic form: the garment’s stated purpose is to cover.
mekhusseh: covered; concealed
מְכֻסֶּה
This passive form shares the root consonants כסה and names the state the covering brings about.
THE PATTERN
When the body is exposed, covering clothes its nakedness and changes what remains visible.
And Shem and Japheth took a garment, and laid it upon both their shoulders, and went backward, and covered the nakedness of their father; and their faces were backward, and they saw not their father’s nakedness.I counsel thee to buy of me gold tried in the fire, that thou mayest be rich; and white raiment, that thou mayest be clothed, and that the shame of thy nakedness do not appear; and anoint thine eyes with eyesalve, that thou mayest see.THE THREAD
And Shem and Japheth took a garment, and laid it upon both their shoulders, and went backward, and covered the nakedness of their father; and their faces were backward, and they saw not their father’s nakedness.Both verses use כָּסָה (kāsâ), meaning “cover,” alongside nakedness. In Exodus the covering has a measured reach; here the same act extends over a father’s exposed body, joining precise coverage with the concealment of nakedness.
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