What Does Ezekiel 45:12 Mean in the King James?
And the shekel shall be twenty gerahs: twenty shekels, five and twenty shekels, fifteen shekels, shall be your maneh.
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 maneh is a counted measure: its sixty shekels make the whole traceable instead of leaving its value undefined.
THE MEANING
The verse gives a clear structure for measurement: twenty gerahs make a shekel, and the maneh is sixty shekels (20 + 25 + 15). Value becomes countable in a shared standard, so a quantity can be checked rather than privately improvised. The measure speaks now wherever exchange depends on terms others can verify.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
It undoes the assumption that a familiar unit guarantees fairness: the unit’s parts and total still need to be clearly set.
THE ROOT
שֶׁקֶל
sheqel
GROWS FROM
שקל
To weigh or weigh out.
English gives you the name of a unit; Hebrew lets you hear the act of weighing inside it. The shekel is not only a label but part of a language of weight and measure.
ALSO GROWS
shaqal: To weigh or weigh out.
שָׁקַל
The verb reveals the action carried inside the unit’s name: a shekel belongs to weighing.
mishqal: Weight or measured quantity.
מִשְׁקָל
This branch names the result of weighing, linking the shekel to a quantity that can be assessed.
מָנֶה
maneh
GROWS FROM
מנה
To count, number, or assign.
The maneh’s name carries the idea of a counted or assigned amount. Here the larger measure is itemized as twenty, twenty-five, and fifteen shekels, making its total traceable.
ALSO GROWS
manah: To count, number, or appoint.
מָנָה
The verb shows the counting beneath the maneh: the measure is defined through its parts.
menah: A portion or allotted share.
מְנָה
A portion is an amount assigned from a whole, echoing the maneh as a defined measure rather than an unspecified quantity.
THE PATTERN
A measure can be trusted when its standard is shared, consistent, and open to checking.
Just balances, just weights, a just ephah, and a just hin, shall ye have: I am the LORD your God, which brought you out of the land of Egypt.A false balance is abomination to the LORD: but a just weight is his delight.And he said unto them, Take heed what ye hear: with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you: and unto you that hear shall more be given.THE THREAD
This they shall give, every one that passeth among them that are numbered, half a shekel after the shekel of the sanctuary: (a shekel is twenty gerahs:) an half shekel shall be the offering of the LORD.The same word shekel, from שקל (shaqal, “to weigh”), appears here with the same twenty-gerah definition. Ezekiel sets the larger maneh by counting shekels; Exodus shows the smaller unit held to a stated measure.
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