What Does Ezekiel 46:15 Mean in the King James?
Thus shall they prepare the lamb, and the meat offering, and the oil, every morning for a continual burnt offering.
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
Each morning’s burnt offering is an ascent made continual: the verse names devotion as a rising that returns with the day.
THE MEANING
The verse places the lamb, the gift, and the oil together in a rhythm that begins again every morning. The offering is an ascent, and its continuity is carried by repetition: morning after morning, the act rises anew. The ordinary opening of the day is part of this continual offering.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
It dissolves the belief that what is sacred or meaningful depends on rare, exceptional moments; here the continual offering takes shape through the returning morning.
THE ROOT
עֹלָה
olah
GROWS FROM
עלה
ʿ-l-h
to go up, ascend, rise
“burnt offering” in this verse is olah. English names the offering by its burning, while עֹלָה (olah, “ascent offering”) names its upward movement. The verse pairs this rising with תָּמִיד (tamid, “continual”), so the offering is a return that rises again each morning.
ALSO GROWS
aliyah: ascent, going up
עֲלִיָּה
This noun preserves the same upward movement named by the offering.
maʿalah: ascent, step, or degree
מַעֲלָה
The offering’s root also describes a step upward, echoing its steady, renewed rising.
שֶׁמֶן
shemen
GROWS FROM
שמן
sh-m-n
to be fat or rich; richness, oil
Oil is named alongside the lamb and the gift as part of the morning offering. Its root also carries the sense of richness, so what is presented includes not only the offering itself but its richness.
ALSO GROWS
shamen: fat, rich
שָׁמֵן
This branch makes the root’s link between oil and richness visible.
mashmannim: rich foods, delicacies
מַשְׁמַנִּים
The word for rich portions grows from the same root as the oil brought with the offering.
THE PATTERN
What is offered takes form through repeated return, carried by a daily rhythm rather than a single isolated act.
This shall be a continual burnt offering throughout your generations at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation before the LORD: where I will meet you, to speak there unto thee.My voice shalt thou hear in the morning, O LORD; in the morning will I direct my prayer unto thee, and will look up.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
This shall be a continual burnt offering throughout your generations at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation before the LORD: where I will meet you, to speak there unto thee.The phrase “continual burnt offering” uses the same Hebrew עֹלָה (olah, “ascent offering”) and תָּמִיד (tamid, “continual”) as Ezekiel 46:15. Exodus adds “where I will meet you, to speak there unto thee”: the repeated ascent is also a place of encounter.
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