What Does Leviticus 2:3 Mean in the King James?
And the remnant of the meat offering shall be Aaron’s and his sons’: it is a thing most holy of the offerings of the LORD made by fire.
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 word for what remains shares its root with “advantage,” and this remainder is assigned as holy provision.
THE MEANING
The portion that remains from the grain offering belongs to Aaron and his sons, and it still bears the designation “most holy” among the LORD’s offerings by fire. What remains has a place as provision within the sacred order, rather than being left outside it as waste.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
The verse undoes the assumption that what is left over has become worthless or ordinary: this remnant is assigned to specific recipients and remains most holy.
THE ROOT
וְהַנּוֹתֶרֶת
vehanoteret
GROWS FROM
יתר
to remain, be left over, or be in excess
“remnant” in this verse is vehanoteret. The Hebrew word for the portion that remains grows from יתר, a root that also gives the word for advantage or gain. Here the remainder is not empty excess: it becomes provision with a named place and purpose.
ALSO GROWS
yeter: remainder, rest, surplus
יֶתֶר
It shares the verse’s root and makes clear that “remnant” belongs to a family of words for what is left.
yitron: profit, advantage, gain
יִתְרוֹן
This branch reveals the root’s surprising reach from what remains to what remains as gain.
קֹדֶשׁ קָדָשִׁים
qodesh qodashim
GROWS FROM
קדש
to set apart for sacred use
“most holy” in this verse is qodesh qodashim. The phrase is literally “holy of holies,” repeating the קדש root to mark an intensified set-apart status. That designation still covers the portion left over: its place in the offering changes, but it does not become common.
ALSO GROWS
qadosh: set apart, holy
קָדוֹשׁ
It names the same set-apart quality applied here to the remaining portion.
miqdash: sanctuary, set-apart place
מִקְדָּשׁ
It shows how the root can describe not only sacred status but also a place devoted to sacred use.
qiddesh: set apart, consecrate
קִדֵּשׁ
This verb expresses the action behind the designation: something is placed within a sacred order.
THE PATTERN
What remains after an offering is given a place in a continuing order of provision.
And the remainder thereof shall Aaron and his sons eat: with unleavened bread shall it be eaten in the holy place; in the court of the tabernacle of the congregation they shall eat it.This shall be thine of the most holy things, reserved from the fire: every oblation of theirs, every meat offering of theirs, and every sin offering of theirs, and every trespass offering of theirs, which they shall render unto me, shall be most holy for thee and for thy sons.And they took up twelve baskets full of the fragments, and of the fishes.THE THREAD
What profit hath a man of all his labour which he taketh under the sun?The Hebrew word translated “profit” is יִתְרוֹן (yitron), from the same יתר root as “remnant” here. The shared root joins what is left over with what remains as gain; Leviticus gives its remainder a sacred use.
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