What Does Ezekiel 48:12 Mean in the King James?
And this oblation of the land that is offered shall be unto them a thing most holy by the border of the Levites.
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 land’s holiness becomes visible as a portion lifted from the whole and placed beside a defined boundary.
THE MEANING
The verse gives sacred belonging a material shape: a distinct share is set apart within the land, beside the Levites’ border. Its location is part of its meaning; holiness here has an outline, not only an inward quality.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
What is sacred must be formless or inward, detached from land and boundaries.
THE ROOT
תְּרוּמָה
terumah
GROWS FROM
רום
r-w-m
to be high; to raise or lift up
“oblation” in this verse is terumah. Terumah carries the sense of a portion raised from the whole and set aside. The word lets you see the land’s sacred share as a distinct allotment, placed beside the Levites’ boundary.
ALSO GROWS
rum: to be high, rise
רוּם
The root’s basic sense of height underlies the image of a portion raised from the land.
ram: high, exalted
רָם
This branch echoes how the offering is distinguished from the surrounding land.
marom: heights, high place
מָרוֹם
It carries the same root image of being raised or elevated.
קֹדֶשׁ קָדָשִׁים
qōdeš qodāšîm
GROWS FROM
קדש
q-d-sh
to set apart; to make sacred
“most holy” in this verse is qōdeš qodāšîm. The repeated q-d-sh form intensifies the set-apartness: the land is marked as a sacred share. Its position beside the Levites gives that distinction a visible edge.
ALSO GROWS
qādôsh: set apart, sacred
קָדוֹשׁ
This is the same root describing what is distinct from ordinary use.
miqdāsh: sanctuary, set-apart place
מִקְדָּשׁ
It shows the root applied to a place whose distinction is made tangible.
qiddēsh: set apart, consecrate
קִדֵּשׁ
This verb names the act that gives a person, object, or place a distinct status.
THE PATTERN
Set-apartness becomes visible when a portion is distinguished and given its place within a larger whole.
And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made.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.But now hath God set the members every one of them in the body, as it hath pleased him.THE THREAD
Seven days thou shalt make an atonement for the altar, and sanctify it; and it shall be an altar most holy: whatsoever toucheth the altar shall be holy.The altar is called “most holy” with the same intensified q-d-sh phrase used for the land here. The connection shows set-apartness attached to a specific place, with its boundary shaping what belongs within its sacredness.
Read the SDV Bible.
Every verse has a Deep Dive in the app.
The iPhone Bible app with the Selah Decoded Version.
Does something in this reading look wrong? Tell us