What Does Ezekiel 45:15 Mean in the King James?
And one lamb out of the flock, out of two hundred, out of the fat pastures of Israel; for a meat offering, and for a burnt offering, and for peace offerings, to make reconciliation for them, saith the Lord GOD.
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
One offering draws covering and wholeness from the flock’s abundance into the life of the whole community.
THE MEANING
The verse speaks to you within a shared picture: a measured portion from a tended abundance serves as covering for the people. The peace offerings carry the language of wholeness, joining communal repair to restored completeness.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
The lie that reconciliation is only a private matter: here, one shared provision serves the whole people.
THE ROOT
לְכַפֵּר
lekapper
GROWS FROM
כפר
k-p-r
Cover; provide a covering.
The verb rendered “make reconciliation” comes from כפר (k-p-r), whose concrete center is covering. Its branches include כַּפֹּרֶת (kappōret), the ark’s cover, and כִּפֻּרִים (kippurim), covering or atonement; the root reveals the covering that holds reconciliation.
ALSO GROWS
kappōret: Cover or lid of the ark.
כַּפֹּרֶת
This branch gives the root a tangible image: a cover placed over what is held within.
kippurim: Coverings or atonements.
כִּפֻּרִים
The shared root links the covering in this verse with the language of atonement.
שְׁלָמִים
shelamim
GROWS FROM
שלם
sh-l-m
Be whole, complete, or sound.
The offerings’ name shares its seed with שָׁלוֹם (shalom, wholeness) and שָׁלֵם (shalem, whole or complete). “Peace offerings” therefore carry completeness and well-being alongside peace, joining the act of covering to the restoration of wholeness.
ALSO GROWS
shalom: Wholeness or well-being.
שָׁלוֹם
It shows that the offerings’ name belongs to the language of restored wholeness.
shalem: Whole, complete, or intact.
שָׁלֵם
This branch makes the connection between the offerings and restored completeness explicit.
THE PATTERN
What is offered from abundance becomes covering, nourishment, or wholeness shared with others.
And he shall put his hand upon the head of the burnt offering; and it shall be accepted for him to make atonement for him.They shall be abundantly satisfied with the fatness of thy house; and thou shalt make them drink of the river of thy pleasures.For by one offering he hath perfected for ever them that are sanctified.THE THREAD
For on that day shall the priest make an atonement for you, to cleanse you, that ye may be clean from all your sins before the LORD.The verb behind “make reconciliation” in Ezekiel and “make an atonement” here shares the root כפר (k-p-r), “cover.” Leviticus pairs that covering with cleansing, revealing the same root’s movement from covering to restored cleanness.
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