What Does Exodus 40:25 Mean in the King James?
And he lighted the lamps before the LORD; as the LORD commanded Moses.
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
What English calls lighting, Hebrew pictures as raising the lamps into the LORD’s presence.
THE MEANING
The lamps are brought up before the LORD; the light has a place in the presence it serves. Illumination and instruction belong together here: what shines is set according to the LORD’s word.
THE ROOT
וַיַּעַל
wayyaʿal
GROWS FROM
עלה
ʿ-l-h
Rise, go up, ascend; in this verb form, cause to rise or bring up.
The verb translated “lighted” carries the movement of raising the lamps. The same root describes an offering ascending, so the light is pictured as brought into the LORD’s presence, not merely kindled.
ALSO GROWS
ʿālāh: Rise or go up.
עָלָה
This is the root’s basic movement, heard in the verse as the lamps being brought up.
ʿōlāh: Burnt offering; literally, an ascending offering.
עֹלָה
The same root links the lamps’ rising with an offering brought before the LORD.
מֹשֶׁה
Mōšeh
GROWS FROM
משה
m-sh-h
Draw out, especially from water.
The name’s biblical explanation connects Moses with being drawn out of the water. The one whose name bears that movement receives the instruction that sets the lamps in their appointed place.
ALSO GROWS
māšāh: To draw out.
מָשָׁה
This verb gives the name its image of being brought out from within the waters.
Mōšeh: Moses; the one drawn out, as the verse’s naming explanation presents it.
מֹשֶׁה
His name carries an image of emergence into the scene where the light is raised before the LORD.
THE PATTERN
Light is placed where it can guide or serve the presence before it.
In the tabernacle of the congregation without the vail, which is before the testimony, Aaron and his sons shall order it from evening to morning before the LORD: it shall be a statute for ever unto their generations on the behalf of the children of Israel.Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path.Neither do men light a candle, and put it under a bushel, but on a candlestick; and it giveth light unto all that are in the house.THE THREAD
And he put the altar of burnt offering by the door of the tabernacle of the tent of the congregation, and offered upon it the burnt offering and the meat offering; as the LORD commanded Moses.The Hebrew verb translated “lighted” in verse 25 shares the root עלה (ʿ-l-h), “rise,” with the verb translated “offered” here and with עֹלָה (ʿōlāh), “burnt offering.” The lamps and the offering are both pictured through ascent into the LORD’s presence.
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