What Does Exodus 29:24 Mean in the King James?
And thou shalt put all in the hands of Aaron, and in the hands of his sons; and shalt wave them for a wave offering before the LORD.
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
One Hebrew root names both the wave offering and the motion that presents it: the offering is revealed in the act of being waved before the LORD.
THE MEANING
What is set into Aaron’s hands is moved into presentation before the LORD. The verse’s wording joins the offering to the motion that brings it into view: the same root names both the waving and the wave offering.
THE ROOT
תְּנוּפָה
tenufah
GROWS FROM
נוף
nuph
To move to and fro; to wave.
“wave offering” in this verse is tenufah. The Hebrew uses the same root for the act of waving and the offering itself. The motion is not incidental to the offering: the word holds the presentation and the thing presented together.
ALSO GROWS
henif: To wave or brandish.
הֵנִיף
This is the verb behind “wave them,” directly linking the action to the offering’s name.
tenufah: Wave offering.
תְּנוּפָה
The offering’s name comes from the same root as the motion that presents it.
וְנָתַתָּ
venatatta
GROWS FROM
נתן
natan
To give, set, or place.
The word translated “put” also carries the sense of giving and setting something in place. The verse’s movement begins with what is placed in the hands, then continues as it is presented before the LORD.
ALSO GROWS
natan: To give, set, or place.
נָתַן
This root holds placement and giving together in the act that begins the verse.
mattanah: A gift.
מַתָּנָה
This related word shows the root’s connection between what is placed or given and what is received as a gift.
THE PATTERN
What is set into human hands becomes an offering through being actively presented before God.
His own hands shall bring the offerings of the LORD made by fire, the fat with the breast, it shall he bring, that the breast may be waved for a wave offering before the LORD.Give unto the LORD the glory due unto his name: bring an offering, and come before him: worship the LORD in the beauty of holiness.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
His own hands shall bring the offerings of the LORD made by fire, the fat with the breast, it shall he bring, that the breast may be waved for a wave offering before the LORD.Leviticus repeats נוּף (nuph, to wave or move to and fro) in both the verb and תְּנוּפָה (tenufah, wave offering). The shared root makes the movement part of what the offering is, not merely a gesture accompanying it.
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