What Does Ezekiel 43:24 Mean in the King James?
And thou shalt offer them before the LORD, and the priests shall cast salt upon them, and they shall offer them up for a burnt offering unto the LORD.
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 “burnt offering” is an olah, “what rises”, and salt marks the gift before its ascent.
THE MEANING
As you meet this verse now, what is brought before the LORD is salted, then lifted as a burnt offering. The salt is not incidental: Leviticus calls it “the salt of the covenant.” The gift rises already marked by covenant.
THE ROOT
מֶלַח
melaḥ
GROWS FROM
מלח
m-l-ḥ
Salt; the related verb means to salt or season with salt.
The noun’s root also names the act of salting. Leviticus 2:13 calls this same salt “the salt of the covenant,” so the offering bears covenant language as it rises.
ALSO GROWS
mālaḥ: To salt or season with salt
מָלַח
The priests’ act of casting salt on the offering is the verb form of this root.
memullaḥ: Salted or seasoned
מְמֻלָּח
The root names not only the salt applied but the state it creates in what receives it.
וְהִקְרַבְתָּם
wehiqravtam
GROWS FROM
קרב
q-r-b
To approach, come near, or bring near.
“offer before” in this verse is wehiqravtam. The Hebrew verb translated “offer” means to bring near. Its related noun qorbān names an offering as drawing near, so the action is movement into the LORD’s presence.
ALSO GROWS
qarov: Near
קָרוֹב
The root keeps nearness inside the act that English calls offering.
qorbān: Offering; drawing near
קָרְבָּן
This related word makes explicit that an offering is also an approach.
עֹלָה
ʿōlāh
GROWS FROM
עלה
ʿ-l-h
To go up or ascend.
“burnt offering” in this verse is ʿōlāh. English foregrounds the burning; the Hebrew name olah comes from the verb “to go up.” The offering’s name holds its trajectory: it is what rises.
ALSO GROWS
ʿālāh: To go up or ascend
עָלָה
This is the verb at the root of the offering’s name.
ʿaliyyāh: Ascent or going up
עֲלִיָּה
This related form keeps the idea of rising audible beneath olah.
THE PATTERN
Salt accompanies offerings to God and names the enduring covenant that holds them.
And every oblation of thy meat offering shalt thou season with salt; neither shalt thou suffer the salt of the covenant of thy God to be lacking from thy meat offering: with all thine offerings thou shalt offer salt.All the heave offerings of the holy things, which the children of Israel offer unto the LORD, have I given thee, and thy sons and thy daughters with thee, by a statute for ever: it is a covenant of salt for ever before the LORD unto thee and to thy seed with thee.For every one shall be salted with fire, and every sacrifice shall be salted with salt.THE THREAD
And every oblation of thy meat offering shalt thou season with salt; neither shalt thou suffer the salt of the covenant of thy God to be lacking from thy meat offering: with all thine offerings thou shalt offer salt.Leviticus uses the same מֶלַח (melaḥ, salt) and explicitly calls it “the salt of the covenant.” That phrase lets the salt on Ezekiel’s burnt offering carry covenant language into what rises.
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