What Does Hebrews 9:25 Mean in the King James?
Nor yet that he should offer himself often, as the high priest entereth into the holy place every year with blood of others;
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 verse separates the high priest’s recurring ritual with another’s blood from a self-offering that does not recur.
THE MEANING
Two rhythms stand together in the verse: the high priest enters year after year with another’s blood, while offering himself does not belong to that repeated cycle. The contrast speaks now as a distinction between a recurring rite and a self-giving that is not renewed by repetition.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
The verse undoes the belief that his self-offering must be repeated each year to keep its force; it places that offering outside the high priest’s annual cycle.
THE ROOT
προσφέρῃ
prospherē
GROWS FROM
φέρω
pherō
To carry, bring, or bear.
English “offer” can sound like a static act at an altar, but προσφέρω is built on φέρω, to carry or bring, with προσ- meaning toward. Hebrews 9:28 uses this same carrying family for both “offered” and “bear,” joining the self-offering with the bearing of many people’s sins.
ALSO GROWS
pherō: Carry, bring, bear.
φέρω
The base verb gives “offer” a sense of movement: something is carried toward.
anapherō: Carry up, bear.
ἀναφέρω
Hebrews 9:28 uses this related verb for “bear the sins of many,” linking the offering to the bearing.
prosphora: Offering, presentation.
προσφορά
This noun from the same word family names what is brought forward.
THE PATTERN
Scripture places recurring ritual cycles beside a completed act that does not need to recur.
And this shall be an everlasting statute unto you, to make an atonement for the children of Israel for all their sins once a year. And he did as the LORD commanded Moses.When Jesus therefore had received the vinegar, he said, It is finished: and he bowed his head, and gave up the ghost.But this man, after he had offered one sacrifice for sins for ever, sat down on the right hand of God;THE THREAD
So Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many; and unto them that look for him shall he appear the second time without sin unto salvation.The verb translated “offered” repeats the same Greek carrying word traced above, and “bear” comes from its cognate: both grow from the idea of carrying. The sentence joins the act of offering with the bearing of many people’s sins, then marks it “once.”
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