What Does Exodus 40:11 Mean in the King James?
And thou shalt anoint the laver and his foot, and sanctify it.
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 basin and its foot are both anointed and set apart: the whole instrument of cleansing receives this designation.
THE MEANING
The basin and its base are both marked with anointing and set apart; the structure that carries the washing is included with the vessel itself. For you now, the verse holds cleansing together with the whole form that bears it: no working part is outside the setting-apart.
THE ROOT
וּמָשַׁחְתָּ
u-mashachta
GROWS FROM
משח
To smear or apply oil; to anoint.
“anoint” in this verse is u-mashachta. The same seed gives the word for the anointed one, so anointing carries the sense of marking someone or something for a designated role. Here, both the basin and its support receive that marking.
ALSO GROWS
mashiach: Anointed one.
מָשִׁיחַ
The branch shows that anointing marks its recipient for a distinct role, just as this vessel and its foot are designated for sacred use.
mishchah: Anointing oil or anointing.
מִשְׁחָה
The oil is the applied sign of designation; the verse names both parts of the washing station as receiving it.
וְקִדַּשְׁתָּ
veqiddashta
GROWS FROM
קדש
To set apart as sacred.
“sanctify” in this verse is veqiddashta. The root also forms words for set-apartness and for a sanctuary, a place set apart. The verse pairs anointing with setting apart, showing both the marking and the designation of the whole instrument.
ALSO GROWS
qodesh: Set-apartness; something sacred.
קֹדֶשׁ
This branch gives the state toward which the basin and its foot are designated.
miqdash: Sanctuary; a set-apart place.
מִקְדָּשׁ
The same root names a place set apart, connecting the vessel’s designation to the space and service it belongs to.
THE PATTERN
Anointing marks what receives it for a designated service or discernment.
And thou shalt sanctify them, that they may be most holy: whatsoever toucheth them shall be holy.Then Samuel took the horn of oil, and anointed him in the midst of his brethren: and the Spirit of the LORD came upon David from that day forward. So Samuel rose up, and went to Ramah.But the anointing which ye have received of him abideth in you, and ye need not that any man teach you: but as the same anointing teacheth you of all things, and is truth, and is no lie, and even as it hath taught you, ye shall abide in him.THE THREAD
And he sprinkled thereof upon the altar seven times, and anointed the altar and all his vessels, both the laver and his foot, to sanctify them.This verse enacts the same pairing: anointing and setting apart reach the laver and its foot together. Exodus gives the instruction; Leviticus echoes both root actions in the completed act.
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