What Does Exodus 29:3 Mean in the King James?

And thou shalt put them into one basket, and bring them in the basket, with the bullock and the two rams.

Exodus 29:3 · KJV

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 hidden hinge is “bring”: its Hebrew root also names nearness, so the basket carries the prepared gifts into an approach.

THE MEANING

What is prepared is gathered into one basket and brought near alongside the animals. This living image holds unlike gifts together in a single approach.

THE ROOT

וְהִקְרַבְתָּ

vehikravta

GROWS FROM

קרב

q-r-b

to approach, draw near

The verb is more than transport: ⁨וְהִקְרַבְתָּ⁩ (vehikravta), “you bring near,” grows from the same root as words for nearness and offering. The breads and animals are gathered into an act of approach.

ALSO GROWS

qorbān: offering; drawing near

קָרְבָּן

The offering takes its name from the movement of bringing something near.

qārôb: near, close

קָרוֹב

The same root links the act of bringing near with the state of being near.

THE PATTERN

Approach gathers what is prepared into one offering and opens into nearness.

And if thou bring an oblation of a meat offering baken in the oven, it shall be unleavened cakes of fine flour mingled with oil, or unleavened wafers anointed with oil.

Leviticus 2:4 · KJVPrepared grain is brought near as cakes or wafers, joining crafted food to the act of approach.

The LORD is nigh unto them that are of a broken heart; and saveth such as be of a contrite spirit.

Psalm 34:18 · KJVThe shared root appears as nearness itself: the LORD is close to the brokenhearted.

Let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and our bodies washed with pure water.

Hebrews 10:22 · KJVApproach gathers heart and body into nearness, extending the pattern from a carried offering to the whole person.

THE THREAD

The LORD is nigh unto them that are of a broken heart; and saveth such as be of a contrite spirit.

Psalm 34:18 · KJV

The Hebrew “nigh” is ⁨קָרוֹב⁩ (qārôb), “near,” from the same ⁨קרב⁩ (q-r-b) root as “bring” here. The root lets the act of bringing near resonate with a presence that is itself near.

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