What Does Leviticus 14:22 Mean in the King James?

And two turtledoves, or two young pigeons, such as he is able to get; and the one shall be a sin offering, and the other a burnt offering.

Leviticus 14:22 · KJV

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THE KEY

The rite meets a person within the reach of what they can obtain, while still naming both the missing and the rising.

THE MEANING

The reader’s return is held within what their hand can reach. The two offerings still name distinct movements: one addresses the missing, and the other rises.

WHAT THIS UNDOES

A person must possess more than they can reach before a path of return is open.

THE ROOT

חַטָּאת

chatta’t

GROWS FROM

חטא

ḥ-ṭ-ʾ

to miss, err, or fall short

“sin offering” in this verse is chatta’t. The word for the offering stays joined to ⁨חטא⁩, the root of missing the mark. The verse pairs an offering that names the missing with another whose own name means rising.

ALSO GROWS

chata: To miss, err, or fall short.

חָטָא

This verb is the root action held inside the offering’s name.

chet: A miss or failure to reach what is aimed at.

חֵטְא

This noun keeps the offering connected to the missing it addresses.

עֹלָה

ʿolah

GROWS FROM

עלה

ʿ-l-h

to ascend or go up

“burnt offering” in this verse is ʿolah. ⁨עֹלָה⁩ names the offering by its rising, from ⁨עלה⁩, “to ascend.” Beside ⁨חַטָּאת⁩, it holds acknowledgment of the missing and upward movement together.

ALSO GROWS

ʿalah: To go up or rise.

עָלָה

This verb supplies the movement named by the offering.

ʿaliyah: An ascent or going up.

עֲלִיָּה

This noun carries the same upward motion into a related form.

THE PATTERN

The offered response is measured by what lies within a person’s reach, not by what they lack.

And if he be not able to bring a lamb, then he shall bring for his trespass, which he hath committed, two turtledoves, or two young pigeons, unto the LORD; one for a sin offering, and the other for a burnt offering.

Leviticus 5:7 · KJVThe two birds provide a way to bring the same paired offerings when a lamb is beyond the person’s means.

And if she be not able to bring a lamb, then she shall bring two turtles, or two young pigeons; the one for the burnt offering, and the other for a sin offering: and the priest shall make an atonement for her, and she shall be clean.

Leviticus 12:8 · KJVThe offering changes with what she can bring, while the rite still makes a path to cleanness.

For if there be first a willing mind, it is accepted according to that a man hath, and not according to that he hath not.

2 Corinthians 8:12 · KJVAcceptance is measured according to what a person has, not what is beyond their means.

THE THREAD

A Psalm of David, Maschil. Blessed is he whose transgression is forgiven, whose sin is covered.

Psalm 32:1 · KJV

Leviticus names one offering ⁨חַטָּאת⁩ (chatta’t, offering for the missing), from ⁨חטא⁩; Psalm 32:1 uses ⁨חֲטָאָה⁩ (chata’ah, missing) from the same root. There, the missing appears beside release and covering, opening this offering into a larger movement of restoration.

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