What Does Ezekiel 45:1 Mean in the King James?

Moreover, when ye shall divide by lot the land for inheritance, ye shall offer an oblation unto the LORD, an holy portion of the land: the length shall be the length of five and twenty thousand reeds, and the breadth shall be ten thousand. This shall be holy in all the borders thereof round about.

Ezekiel 45:1 · KJV

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This verse in the Selah Decoded Version

THE KEY

The repeated root turns the oblation into a raised portion of the inheritance, whose holiness reaches every border.

THE MEANING

The verse presents an inheritance with a precisely measured portion set apart for the LORD. Its holiness reaches all the way around its borders, giving the sacred a defined place within the whole land.

WHAT THIS UNDOES

It undoes the idea that the sacred is vague or without boundaries: this portion has exact dimensions, and its holiness extends to every edge.

THE ROOT

תָּרִימוּ תְּרוּמָה

tarimu terumah

GROWS FROM

רום

To rise or be high; in the causative, to raise or lift up.

“offer an oblation” in this verse is tarimu terumah. The verb tarimu and the noun terumah grow from the same root, a repetition English renders as two different words. The contribution is a portion raised from the inheritance and set apart for the LORD.

ALSO GROWS

tarimu: You shall raise or set apart.

תָּרִימוּ

This is the verse’s verb for designating the portion, echoing the root of the noun that follows.

terumah: A raised contribution or portion.

תְּרוּמָה

This is the word translated “oblation”; its root links the offering to the act of raising a portion from the land.

קֹדֶשׁ

qodesh

GROWS FROM

קדש

To set apart or consecrate.

“holy” in this verse is qodesh. The verse calls both the portion and its surrounding boundary qodesh. Set-apartness reaches around the whole measured space, rather than naming only a point at its center.

ALSO GROWS

qadosh: Set apart; holy.

קָדוֹשׁ

This adjective shares the root and describes the quality assigned to the whole portion.

miqdash: Sanctuary; a set-apart place.

מִקְדָּשׁ

This branch shows how the root can name a distinct place, illuminating the measured land as a defined sacred space.

THE PATTERN

What is set apart for God takes on a distinct identity within the larger whole.

And let them make me a sanctuary; that I may dwell among them.

Exodus 25:8 · KJVA distinct place is made for the LORD’s presence within the wider camp.

For there was a tabernacle made; the first, wherein was the candlestick, and the table, and the shewbread; which is called the sanctuary.

Hebrews 9:2 · KJVThe sanctuary is shown as a distinct space with its own place and contents.

Because it is written, Be ye holy; for I am holy.

1 Peter 1:16 · KJVThe set-apart quality named for the land is also named as the character of those who belong to God.

THE THREAD

And by the border of Judah, from the east side unto the west side, shall be the offering which ye shall offer of five and twenty thousand reeds in breadth, and in length as one of the other parts, from the east side unto the west side: and the sanctuary shall be in the midst of it.

Ezekiel 48:8 · KJV

The Hebrew repeats the terumah/tarimu word-family, again naming a measured portion raised from the land. Here the sanctuary stands in its midst, showing how the set-apart portion gives the sacred a defined center and extent.

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