What Does Leviticus 2:7 Mean in the King James?

And if thy oblation be a meat offering baken in the fryingpan, it shall be made of fine flour with oil.

Leviticus 2:7 · KJV

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 translated “oblation” is ⁨קָרְבָּנְךָ⁩ (qorbanekha, “your offering”), from a root meaning “draw near,” so the pan-baked flour and oil give approach a tangible form.

THE MEANING

Here, drawing near takes a tangible form: fine flour is mixed with oil and baked on a pan. Ordinary grain is prepared with richness and heat, then brought near as an offering.

THE ROOT

קָרְבָּנְךָ

qorbanekha

GROWS FROM

קרב

Draw near, approach.

The word translated “oblation” belongs to the same root as the verb “draw near.” The grain and oil are the tangible form this approach takes: something prepared and brought near.

ALSO GROWS

qarav: Draw near, approach.

קָרַב

This verb names the movement carried by the offering: bringing something near.

qarov: Near, close.

קָרוֹב

This related word makes proximity part of the same word family as the offering.

שֶׁמֶן

shemen

GROWS FROM

שמן

Be fat, grow rich; fatness or richness.

The word for oil shares its root with words for fatness and richness. In this offering, the flour is prepared with that richness before it passes through the heat of baking.

ALSO GROWS

shamen: Fat, rich.

שָׁמֵן

This adjective carries the root’s sense of richness into the oil mixed with the flour.

mishmannim: Rich foods, choice portions.

מִשְׁמַנִּים

This branch uses the same root for rich food, echoing the enriched grain in the offering.

THE PATTERN

Drawing near takes tangible form in what is prepared, presented, or embodied.

And when any will offer a meat offering unto the LORD, his offering shall be of fine flour; and he shall pour oil upon it, and put frankincense thereon:

Leviticus 2:1 · KJVFine flour and oil again give the offering a prepared, tangible form.

Let my prayer be set forth before thee as incense; and the lifting up of my hands as the evening sacrifice.

Psalm 141:2 · KJVPrayer and raised hands are expressed through the images of incense and sacrifice.

Ye also, as lively stones, are built up a spiritual house, an holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ.

1 Peter 2:5 · KJVThe community itself becomes the embodied form of an offering.

THE THREAD

And when any will offer a meat offering unto the LORD, his offering shall be of fine flour; and he shall pour oil upon it, and put frankincense thereon:

Leviticus 2:1 · KJV

Leviticus 2:1 uses ⁨קָרַב⁩ (qarav, “draw near”) in the verb rendered “offer,” alongside ⁨קָרְבָּן⁩ (qorban, “offering”). The shared root makes the flour and oil in 2:7 the prepared form of bringing near.

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