What Does Leviticus 14:14 Mean in the King James?

And the priest shall take some of the blood of the trespass offering, and the priest shall put it upon the tip of the right ear of him that is to be cleansed, and upon the thumb of his right hand, and upon the great toe of his right foot:

Leviticus 14:14 · KJV

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THE KEY

The Hebrew name of the guilt offering also carries the sense of liability, and its blood marks the ear, hand, and foot, the places where a life receives, acts, and moves.

THE MEANING

The verse pictures cleansing as reaching the places where you receive, act, and move: ear, hand, and foot. The blood of the guilt offering makes this restoration embodied, and the offering’s Hebrew name also carries the sense of guilt or liability.

WHAT THIS UNDOES

Cleansing is only an invisible status that leaves the ways you receive, act, and move untouched.

THE ROOT

אָשָׁם

ʾāshām

GROWS FROM

א־ש־ם

ʾ-sh-m

Guilt or liability; as a noun, the guilt offering associated with it.

“trespass offering” in this verse is ʾāshām. The word names both liability and the offering associated with it. Its blood reaches ear, hand, and foot, tracing the response across receiving, acting, and moving.

ALSO GROWS

ʾāshēm: Be guilty or liable.

אָשֵׁם

This verbal form names the condition carried by the same root as the offering.

ʾāshām: Guilt; guilt offering.

אָשָׁם

This noun is the word used for the offering whose blood marks the person in this verse.

THE PATTERN

Cleansing and consecration are marked across a person’s hearing, action, and movement.

Then shalt thou kill the ram, and take of his blood, and put it upon the tip of the right ear of Aaron, and upon the tip of the right ear of his sons, and upon the thumb of their right hand, and upon the great toe of their right foot, and sprinkle the blood upon the altar round about.

Exodus 29:20 · KJVThe same blood-mark reaches the ear, hand, and foot, joining what a person receives, does, and where they go.

And he slew it; and Moses took of the blood of it, and put it upon the tip of Aaron’s right ear, and upon the thumb of his right hand, and upon the great toe of his right foot.

Leviticus 8:23 · KJVThe same three places are marked in a rite of setting apart, giving cleansing and consecration a shared bodily pattern.

How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?

Hebrews 9:14 · KJVHere blood reaches the conscience and opens a life toward service, an inward counterpart to the bodily marking.

THE THREAD

And he slew it; and Moses took of the blood of it, and put it upon the tip of Aaron’s right ear, and upon the thumb of his right hand, and upon the great toe of his right foot.

Leviticus 8:23 · KJV

Leviticus 8:23 uses the same three placements in the rite that sets Aaron apart. The parallel gives cleansing and consecration one bodily map: receiving, acting, and moving.

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