What Does Exodus 40:6 Mean in the King James?
And thou shalt set the altar of the burnt offering before the door of the tabernacle of the tent of the congregation.
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 named an ascent is stationed at the opening, placing upward movement at the threshold of meeting.
THE MEANING
You stand at the opening of the dwelling of encounter, where the ascending offering is set. Approach and arrival meet at the threshold: the movement upward is already there before entry.
THE ROOT
עֹלָה
ʿolah
GROWS FROM
עלה
ʿ-l-h
rise, go up, ascend
The offering’s name comes from a word for rising or going up. “Burnt offering” names how it is treated, while ʿolah also gives its direction: ascent stands at the point of entry.
ALSO GROWS
aliyah: ascent
עֲלִיָּה
This noun from the same root makes the upward movement within ʿolah audible.
maʿaleh: ascent, upward slope
מַעֲלֶה
This branch shows the root can describe a rising path, echoing the offering’s placement before the entrance.
פֶּתַח
petach
GROWS FROM
פתח
p-t-ḥ
open, make an opening
“door” in this verse is petach. Petach means an opening and comes from patach, “to open.” The threshold is named by the passage it makes possible, so the altar stands before an opening into the place of meeting.
ALSO GROWS
patach: to open
פָּתַח
The verb behind petach shows that the door is an opening in action, a passage into the dwelling.
pitḥu: open! (plural command)
פִּתְחוּ
This form uses the same root in Psalm 118:19, where the gates are called to open for entry.
מִשְׁכָּן
mishkan
GROWS FROM
שכן
sh-k-n
dwell, settle
“tabernacle” in this verse is mishkan. Mishkan comes from shakan, to dwell or settle. The altar stands before the opening of a dwelling-place of encounter, setting ascent at the entrance to where presence dwells.
ALSO GROWS
shakhan: to dwell, settle
שָׁכַן
The verb reveals the dwelling sense carried by mishkan.
shokhen: one who dwells
שֹׁכֵן
This related form makes the root’s focus on dwelling concrete and personal.
THE PATTERN
Entry into divine presence is marked by a threshold that turns approach into encounter.
And he was afraid, and said, How dreadful is this place! this is none other but the house of God, and this is the gate of heaven.Open to me the gates of righteousness: I will go into them, and I will praise the LORD:Having therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus,THE THREAD
Open to me the gates of righteousness: I will go into them, and I will praise the LORD:The Hebrew word for “door,” petach, comes from patach, “to open”; Psalm 118 uses that same root in “Open to me.” Exodus places the ascent before the opening, and the Psalm gives voice to that opening as the way in.
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