What Does Exodus 30:28 Mean in the King James?
And the altar of burnt offering with all his vessels, and the laver and his foot.
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 offering is named for its ascent, while the verse gathers even the washing basin’s stand into the same whole.
THE MEANING
The offering’s name carries the motion of rising, and the verse places it beside every vessel, the washing basin, and its stand. What rises is held within a whole whose cleansing place and foundation are named alongside it.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
The sacred belongs only to the central altar; its tools, washing basin, and support are merely peripheral.
THE ROOT
עֹלָה
ʿolah
GROWS FROM
עלה
ʿ-l-h
To go up, rise, ascend.
The Hebrew word עֹלָה (ʿolah, that which ascends) names the offering by its upward movement. English “burnt offering” gives the form of the act; the root also lets you hear its direction.
ALSO GROWS
ʿaliyyah: Ascent, going up.
עֲלִיָּה
It carries the same upward motion, making the offering’s name part of a wider language of ascent.
ʿoleh: One who goes up or ascends.
עֹלֶה
This form makes the movement explicit: the root names rising, not only the object that rises.
כַּנּוֹ
kannō
GROWS FROM
כון
k-w-n
To establish, set firm, or prepare.
The laver’s “foot” is its stand, and its root carries the sense of being established or made firm. The verse includes not only the place of washing but what holds that place in position.
ALSO GROWS
hēkhīn: Prepared or established.
הֵכִין
This form shows the root’s sense of making something ready and set in place.
mākhōn: An established place or dwelling.
מָכוֹן
It extends the root’s idea of a place made firm, echoing the stand named beside the laver.
THE PATTERN
Set-apartness reaches the whole working structure, including its vessels and supports.
And thou shalt take the anointing oil, and anoint the tabernacle, and all that is therein, and shalt hallow it, and all the vessels thereof: and it shall be holy.And Moses took the anointing oil, and anointed the tabernacle and all that was therein, and sanctified them.If a man therefore purge himself from these, he shall be a vessel unto honour, sanctified, and meet for the master’s use, and prepared unto every good work.THE THREAD
And Noah builded an altar unto the LORD; and took of every clean beast, and of every clean fowl, and offered burnt offerings on the altar.The Hebrew עֹלֹת (ʿolot, burnt offerings or ascents) shares the root עלה (ʿ-l-h, rise or ascend) with Exodus’s עֹלָה (ʿolah, that which ascends). Genesis makes the movement audible: the offering is named by its going up.
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