What Does Exodus 40:27 Mean in the King James?
And he burnt sweet incense thereon; 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
The incense is named by what it becomes: smoke rising from the sanctuary.
THE MEANING
The dwelling’s sacred life takes form through an act given its place by the LORD’s instruction. The incense becomes smoke that rises within it, making the offering an image of ascent. Moses, whose name carries the sense of one drawn out, receives the instruction that shapes this act.
THE ROOT
קְטֹרֶת
qetoret
GROWS FROM
קטר
q-t-r
To emit smoke or burn incense.
The Hebrew word for incense grows from the root for making smoke. English names the substance, while the root also carries its transformation: the offering becomes something that rises.
ALSO GROWS
qatar: To burn incense; make smoke rise.
קָטַר
The verb names the act that turns the incense into rising smoke.
qitor: Smoke or vapor.
קִיטוֹר
This related noun shows that the root links the incense to the smoke it produces.
מֹשֶׁה
Mosheh
GROWS FROM
משׁה
m-sh-h
To draw out, especially from water.
The name Moses carries the sense of being drawn out. Here the name stands beside an instruction being carried into action, joining the one drawn out with the ordered life of the dwelling.
ALSO GROWS
mashah: To draw out.
מָשָׁה
This verb gives the name Moses its name-nature in the biblical naming account.
Mosheh: Moses; the one drawn out.
מֹשֶׁה
The name keeps the drawing-out image present as Moses receives the instruction.
THE PATTERN
Incense becomes rising smoke before God, and scripture uses that same image to make prayer visible.
And Aaron shall burn thereon sweet incense every morning: when he dresseth the lamps, he shall burn incense upon it.Let my prayer be set forth before thee as incense; and the lifting up of my hands as the evening sacrifice.And another angel came and stood at the altar, having a golden censer; and there was given unto him much incense, that he should offer it with the prayers of all saints upon the golden altar which was before the throne. And the smoke of the incense, which came with the prayers of the saints, ascended up before God out of the angel’s hand.THE THREAD
Let my prayer be set forth before thee as incense; and the lifting up of my hands as the evening sacrifice.Psalm 141 uses the same Hebrew word, qetoret (קְטֹרֶת), for incense. It makes explicit the image held in this act: incense rises before God, and prayer is pictured as rising with it.
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