What Does Leviticus 1:14 Mean in the King James?
And if the burnt sacrifice for his offering to the LORD be of fowls, then he shall bring his offering of turtledoves, or of young pigeons.
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 offering is both brought near and named as an ascent: the bird approaches, and the olah rises.
THE MEANING
This verse holds nearness and ascent together: the bird is brought near to the LORD, and the offering’s name carries the sense of rising. Even turtledoves and young pigeons have a place in that approach.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
The belief that only a large animal can be brought near is undone here: birds, too, are named as offerings to the LORD.
THE ROOT
עֹלָה
ʿōlāh
GROWS FROM
עלה
ʿ-l-h
to go up, rise, ascend
“burnt sacrifice” in this verse is ʿōlāh. ʿŌlāh carries the sense of an ascent. The offering is named not only by what it is, but by its movement upward.
ALSO GROWS
ʿālāh: to go up, rise, ascend
עָלָה
This is the verb behind ʿōlāh, making the offering’s upward movement audible in its name.
ʿăliyyāh: ascent, going up
עֲלִיָּה
This related noun keeps the same movement of rising that shapes the offering.
קָרְבָּן
qorbān
GROWS FROM
קרב
q-r-b
to approach, draw near
Qorbān carries the sense of what is brought near. The verse joins that nearness to the ascent of ʿōlāh: the bird is brought near, and the offering rises.
ALSO GROWS
qārab: to approach, draw near
קָרַב
This verb reveals the approach contained in the word for offering.
qārōb: near, close
קָרוֹב
The related word for nearness shows the shared root’s movement toward closeness.
THE PATTERN
What is offered is carried into nearness through a movement of ascent.
And Noah builded an altar unto the LORD; and took of every clean beast, and of every clean fowl, and offered burnt offerings on the altar.Let my prayer be set forth before thee as incense; and the lifting up of my hands as the evening sacrifice.I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.THE THREAD
And Noah builded an altar unto the LORD; and took of every clean beast, and of every clean fowl, and offered burnt offerings on the altar.The Hebrew word for “burnt offerings” here is עֹלוֹת (ʿōlōt), the plural of עֹלָה (ʿōlāh), meaning “ascent.” The same word gathers clean beasts and fowl under one movement, so the creature changes while the offering’s upward direction remains.
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