What Does Ezekiel 45:14 Mean in the King James?

Concerning the ordinance of oil, the bath of oil, ye shall offer the tenth part of a bath out of the cor, which is an homer of ten baths; for ten baths are an homer:

Ezekiel 45:14 · KJV

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THE KEY

The oil’s share is given a boundary you can count: a tenth of a bath set against a cor measured as ten baths.

THE MEANING

The oil portion is one tenth of a bath for each cor, which is also called a homer and defined here as ten baths. The share has a stated measure and a named place within the whole.

THE ROOT

חֹק

ḥoq

GROWS FROM

חקק

ḥ-q-q

To cut or inscribe; by extension, to prescribe or mark out a fixed boundary.

⁨חֹק⁩ (ḥoq, ordinance or prescribed portion) can mean an appointed share as well as a decree. Its root evokes something marked out, so the oil’s portion is not an abstract rule: the verse gives that boundary a countable measure.

ALSO GROWS

ḥāqaq: To inscribe, cut in, or decree.

חָקַק

The act of marking something out illuminates how the ordinance defines the oil’s share.

ḥuqqāh: A statute or prescribed ordinance.

חֻקָּה

This related form keeps the sense of a set prescription that gives an amount a defined place.

עֲשִׂרִית

ʿăśîrît

GROWS FROM

עשר

ʿ-ś-r

Ten; the word family builds measures and portions from this count.

The tenth part remains linguistically tied to ten, and the verse repeats ten in defining the cor as ten baths. The share and the whole are expressed through the same countable measure.

ALSO GROWS

ʿeśer: Ten.

עֶשֶׂר

It supplies the number at the heart of the tenth part and the cor’s ten-bath measure.

maʿăśēr: A tithe or tenth.

מַעֲשֵׂר

This related word carries the same ten-root into the language of a set share.

THE PATTERN

A share becomes accountable when its measure is clearly named against the whole.

But thou shalt have a perfect and just weight, a perfect and just measure shalt thou have: that thy days may be lengthened in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.

Deuteronomy 25:15 · KJVThe verse makes a just measure explicit, so the scale itself is part of what is required.

A false balance is abomination to the LORD: but a just weight is his delight.

Proverbs 11:1 · KJVIt connects integrity with a measure that gives each amount its proper weight.

Upon the first day of the week let every one of you lay by him in store, as God hath prospered him, that there be no gatherings when I come.

1 Corinthians 16:2 · KJVThe contribution is set aside regularly and measured in relation to each person’s means.

THE THREAD

And all the tithe of the land, whether of the seed of the land, or of the fruit of the tree, is the LORD’s: it is holy unto the LORD.

Leviticus 27:30 · KJV

The word rendered “tithe” is ⁨מַעֲשֵׂר⁩ (maʿăśēr, a tenth), from ⁨עשר⁩ (ʿ-ś-r, ten), the same root as ⁨עֲשִׂרִית⁩ (ʿăśîrît, tenth part) here. That shared root opens Ezekiel’s oil allotment as a counted share with a defined measure.

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