What Does Ezekiel 46:14 Mean in the King James?
And thou shalt prepare a meat offering for it every morning, the sixth part of an ephah, and the third part of an hin of oil, to temper with the fine flour; a meat offering continually by a perpetual ordinance unto the LORD.
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 KJV’s “meat offering” is fine flour and oil: the enduring gift is daily provision, measured and prepared anew.
THE MEANING
You encounter a gift of ordinary food, measured and prepared again each morning. Here continuity takes material form: flour and oil are brought before the LORD as the day begins.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
It undoes the idea that ordinary, material things cannot carry devotion: here the offering is flour and oil, renewed each morning.
THE ROOT
שֶׁמֶן
shemen
GROWS FROM
שמן
Fatness and richness; the verb describes becoming fat or robust.
English “oil” names the ingredient but hides its kinship with words for fatness and rich food. In this offering, that richness is measured and mixed with fine flour as part of the recurring gift.
ALSO GROWS
shāman: to grow fat, become robust
שָׁמַן
Deuteronomy 32:15 uses this verb for growing fat; it shares the root with the oil measured into this offering.
mashmannim: rich foods, dainties
מַשְׁמַנִּים
Nehemiah 8:10 uses this word for rich foods, showing the root’s connection between oil and nourishing abundance.
THE PATTERN
An offering to God takes shape through repeated acts that mark the rhythm of time.
And the other lamb thou shalt offer at even, and shalt do thereto according to the meat offering of the morning, and according to the drink offering thereof, for a sweet savour, an offering made by fire unto the LORD.To shew forth thy lovingkindness in the morning, and thy faithfulness every night,By him therefore let us offer the sacrifice of praise to God continually, that is, the fruit of our lips giving thanks to his name.THE THREAD
And Abel, he also brought of the firstlings of his flock and of the fat thereof. And the LORD had respect unto Abel and to his offering:The word translated “offering” here is מִנְחָה (minchah), meaning a gift or offering, the same Hebrew word used for the flour-and-oil gift in Ezekiel. Its form changes from flock to grain, while the word holds both as presentations brought before the LORD.
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