What Does Exodus 29:43 Mean in the King James?
And there I will meet with the children of Israel, and the tabernacle shall be sanctified by my glory.
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 meeting is appointed, and the place is set apart by the weight of God’s presence.
THE MEANING
God meets Israel at the appointed place, and the tabernacle is set apart by God’s weight. The verse speaks to you now of sacredness as something given in encounter: the place is marked by the presence that meets there.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
It undoes the idea that a place is set apart by human designation alone: here its set-apartness comes from God’s presence and weight.
THE ROOT
וְנֹעַדְתִּי
wə-noʿadtî
GROWS FROM
יעד
y-ʿ-d
To appoint or designate; to meet at an appointed place or time.
“meet” in this verse is wə-noʿadtî. The word for meeting carries the sense of an appointment: this encounter has a place and purpose. English can make it sound like a chance meeting, while the Hebrew connects it to what is appointed.
ALSO GROWS
mo'ed: An appointed time, meeting, or place.
מוֹעֵד
It shares the root’s sense of an encounter set for a particular time or place.
ya'ad: To appoint or designate.
יָעַד
It makes the appointment within “I will meet” audible: the meeting is set in place.
בִּכְבֹדִי
bikəvōdî
GROWS FROM
כבד
k-b-d
To be heavy or weighty.
The word carries the sense of weight and honor beneath its familiar rendering as “glory.” The tabernacle is set apart through the weight of God’s presence there.
ALSO GROWS
kaved: Heavy or weighty.
כָּבֵד
It reveals the concrete sense within “my glory”: something of weight is present.
kibbed: To honor or accord weight.
כִּבֵּד
It shows how weight extends into honor, joining God’s presence with the reverence it carries.
וְנִקְדַּשׁ
wə-niqdash
GROWS FROM
קדש
q-d-sh
To set apart as sacred.
“sanctified” in this verse is wə-niqdash. The word names the tabernacle as set apart, and the verse directly links that condition to God’s weight. The place is marked by the presence that meets there.
ALSO GROWS
qadosh: Set apart; sacred.
קָדוֹשׁ
It shares the same root and names the quality the tabernacle receives.
miqdash: Sanctuary; a set-apart place.
מִקְדָּשׁ
It shows the root embodied in a place devoted to encounter.
THE PATTERN
A space becomes set apart when divine presence fills it with weight.
Then a cloud covered the tent of the congregation, and the glory of the LORD filled the tabernacle.So that the priests could not stand to minister because of the cloud: for the glory of the LORD had filled the house of the LORD.And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.THE THREAD
And there I will meet with thee, and I will commune with thee from above the mercy seat, from between the two cherubims which are upon the ark of the testimony, of all things which I will give thee in commandment unto the children of Israel.Exodus 25:22 uses the same ya’ad meeting word: the tabernacle is named as a place of appointed encounter. Exodus 29:43 extends that meeting to Israel and says God’s weight sets the place apart.
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