What Does Leviticus 15:32 Mean in the King James?
This is the law of him that hath an issue, and of him whose seed goeth from him, and is defiled therewith;
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 names the body’s emission as זֶרַע (zeraʿ, seed), so what leaves the body remains linked to what can be sown.
THE MEANING
The verse speaks directly to bodily life: it distinguishes a running issue from seed leaving the body, then names defilement as the ritual condition joined to that emission. The body, its flow, and the resulting status remain visible in the same sentence.
THE ROOT
זֶרַע
zeraʿ
GROWS FROM
זרע
זָרַע (zāraʿ): to sow; זֶרַע (zeraʿ): seed, what is sown.
זֶרַע (zeraʿ, seed) belongs to the same root as זָרַע (zāraʿ, to sow) and זֹרֵעַ (zōrēaʿ, sower). Here, what leaves the body is not named merely as fluid; the word keeps bodily emission and sowing within one family.
ALSO GROWS
zāraʿ: to sow
זָרַע
The verb keeps the seed in motion, illuminating why the verse names the emission as seed.
zōrēaʿ: sower, one who sows
זֹרֵעַ
This branch names the agent of sowing, keeping seed, its movement, and its source connected.
לְטָמְאָה
ləṭāməʾāh
GROWS FROM
טמא
טָמֵא (ṭāmēʾ): to be or become unclean; טִמֵּא (ṭimmēʾ): to render unclean.
“defiled” in this verse is ləṭāməʾāh. The phrase לְטָמְאָה (ləṭāməʾāh, to become unclean) belongs to the same family as טָמֵא (ṭāmēʾ, unclean) and טֻמְאָה (ṭumʾāh, impurity). The root links the resulting state with the process of becoming unclean, while the verse attaches that ritual condition to the bodily emission.
ALSO GROWS
ṭāmēʾ: unclean, impure
טָמֵא
This form names the state associated with the emission in the verse.
ṭumʾāh: impurity, uncleanness
טֻמְאָה
The noun makes the same root’s condition visible as a state.
ṭimmēʾ: to make unclean, defile
טִמֵּא
This form shows the root can also name the action that brings about uncleanness.
THE PATTERN
Scripture names bodily flow as a real condition: its presence carries ritual status, while its cessation can mark restoration.
Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When any man hath a running issue out of his flesh, because of his issue he is unclean.If there be among you any man, that is not clean by reason of uncleanness that chanceth him by night, then shall he go abroad out of the camp, he shall not come within the camp:And straightway the fountain of her blood was dried up; and she felt in her body that she was healed of that plague.THE THREAD
And Onan knew that the seed should not be his; and it came to pass, when he went in unto his brother’s wife, that he spilled it on the ground, lest that he should give seed to his brother.Genesis 38:9 uses זֶרַע (zeraʿ, seed) for offspring and again in the phrase “give seed.” The shared root keeps the reproductive meaning present in Leviticus 15:32, where seed is the bodily emission named.
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