What Does Leviticus 2:5 Mean in the King James?
And if thy oblation be a meat offering baken in a pan, it shall be of fine flour unleavened, mingled with oil.
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 word for “mingled” shares its root with Babel’s “confounding”: mixing can bring ingredients together or make speech unintelligible.
THE MEANING
The gift takes a practical form: fine flour mingled with oil and baked without leaven. The word for “mingled” carries the same root used for mixing language, showing how the same act can shape a whole in very different ways.
THE ROOT
בְּלֻלָה
belulah
GROWS FROM
בלל
To mix or mingle; in some contexts, to confound.
The root בלל (balal, “to mix or mingle”) appears in the word for the flour mingled with oil here and in the verb for confounding language at Babel. The shared root holds mixture and confusion together without making them identical: what is mixed, and how, shapes the result.
ALSO GROWS
balal: To mix, mingle, or confound.
בָּלַל
In Genesis 11:7, this root describes the mixing of language; here it describes flour joined with oil.
Bavel: Babel; Genesis 11:9 links the name by wordplay to the mixing or confounding of language.
בָּבֶל
The wordplay connects the prepared mixture in this offering with a different outcome of mixing: speech that can no longer be understood.
THE PATTERN
What is worked through a whole shapes the character of the whole.
And unleavened bread, and cakes unleavened tempered with oil, and wafers unleavened anointed with oil: of wheaten flour shalt thou make them.Another parable spake he unto them; The kingdom of heaven is like unto leaven, which a woman took, and hid in three measures of meal, till the whole was leavened.Your glorying is not good. Know ye not that a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump?THE THREAD
Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another’s speech.“Mingled” here is בְּלֻלָה (belulah), from בלל (balal), “to mix or mingle”; Genesis uses the same root for “confound.” The shared seed opens two outcomes of mixing: ingredients joined in a preparation, and speech made unintelligible.
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