What Does Leviticus 1:8 Mean in the King James?
And the priests, Aaron’s sons, shall lay the parts, the head, and the fat, in order upon the wood that is on the fire which is upon the altar:
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 Hebrew verb for laying this offering “in order” is also used for preparing a table before someone.
THE MEANING
Here, the offering is concrete before you: the pieces, head, and fat each have a place on the wood over the altar fire. The verse makes the body visible part by part, within a deliberate arrangement.
THE ROOT
וְעָרְכוּ
veʿārəkû
GROWS FROM
ערך
ʿ-r-k
To arrange, set in order, or array.
“in order” in this verse is veʿārəkû. The verb describes more than placing something down: it gives each part a position within an arrangement. The same root can describe preparing a table, linking the ordered offering with a meal set before someone without making them the same act.
ALSO GROWS
taʿarokh: You prepare or set in order.
תַּעֲרֹךְ
In Psalm 23:5, this is the verb translated “preparest” in “Thou preparest a table before me.” The same root holds both the altar’s arrangement and a table prepared before someone.
maʿarakhah: An arrangement or row.
מַעֲרָכָה
In Leviticus 24:6, the showbread is placed in rows before the LORD; the root’s sense of ordered placement appears in another priestly arrangement.
THE PATTERN
What is offered or prepared becomes visible through the specific placement of its parts.
Or all that about which he hath sworn falsely; he shall even restore it in the principal, and shall add the fifth part more thereto, and give it unto him to whom it appertaineth, in the day of his trespass offering.Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies: thou anointest my head with oil; my cup runneth over.As soon then as they were come to land, they saw a fire of coals there, and fish laid thereon, and bread.THE THREAD
Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies: thou anointest my head with oil; my cup runneth over.“Preparest” translates the same Hebrew root as “lay in order” here. The root connects an offering arranged on the altar with a table set before someone, revealing how one verb can hold both ordered placement and preparation.
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