What Does Ezekiel 43:8 Mean in the King James?
In their setting of their threshold by my thresholds, and their post by my posts, and the wall between me and them, they have even defiled my holy name by their abominations that they have committed: wherefore I have consumed them in mine anger.
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
Their thresholds stand beside God’s, yet a wall remains between them: outward nearness does not erase the separation their actions preserve.
THE MEANING
You see the thresholds pressed beside God’s own while a wall still divides them. The verse names the result plainly: they defile the name set apart as God’s, and God consumes them in his anger.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
The lie that standing near what is sacred is the same as being joined to it.
THE ROOT
וְטִמְּאוּ
v’timme’u
GROWS FROM
טמא
ṭ-m-ʾ
To become or make unclean.
“defiled” in this verse is v’timme’u. The verb names making unclean, while the verse sets it beside קָדְשִׁי (qodshi, “my set-apartness”). The offense is a collapse of the boundary between what is common and what is marked as God’s own.
ALSO GROWS
ṭāmēʾ: Unclean
טָמֵא
Names the condition produced by the act of defiling.
ṭumʾāh: Uncleanness
טֻמְאָה
Names the resulting state that stands opposite what is set apart.
קָדְשִׁי
qodshi
GROWS FROM
קדש
q-d-sh
To set apart, mark as distinct.
The phrase שֵׁם קָדְשִׁי (shem qodshi, “my holy name”) speaks of a name marked as God’s own. The verse places thresholds and a wall around that name, showing that the boundary between the set-apart and the common is part of what the name carries.
ALSO GROWS
qadosh: Set apart
קָדוֹשׁ
Shows the quality named by the root: distinction from what is common.
miqdash: Sanctuary, a set-apart place
מִקְדָּשׁ
Carries the same root into a place, echoing the verse’s thresholds and wall.
THE PATTERN
What is set apart is defiled when its boundary is treated as common or erased.
And that ye may put difference between holy and unholy, and between unclean and clean;Her priests have violated my law, and have profaned mine holy things: they have put no difference between the holy and profane, neither have they shewed difference between the unclean and the clean, and have hid their eyes from my sabbaths, and I am profaned among them.If any man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, which temple ye are.THE THREAD
So will I make my holy name known in the midst of my people Israel; and I will not let them pollute my holy name any more: and the heathen shall know that I am the LORD, the Holy One in Israel.The phrase שֵׁם קָדְשִׁי (shem qodshi, “my holy name”) returns, carrying the same root for what is set apart. The defilement named here meets a later declaration that this name will be made known and no longer polluted.
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