What Does Leviticus 21:22 Mean in the King James?
He shall eat the bread of his God, both of the most holy, and of the holy.
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
A boundary around one sacred role does not erase a person’s share in sacred provision.
THE MEANING
A real boundary around offering does not cancel every share in what is sacred: the man who cannot bring the offering still eats his God’s bread, both from the most holy and from the holy. The restriction remains, but it is not total deprivation.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
Being barred from one sacred role means being barred from all sacred provision.
THE ROOT
קֹדֶשׁ
qodesh
GROWS FROM
קדש
q-d-sh
To set apart or consecrate; qodesh means what is sacred or set apart.
The Hebrew names both “most holy” and “holy” through the same קדש family: these are distinct classes within one field of consecrated things. That shared root makes the verse’s tension clear: a restriction on his altar role does not remove his access to either category of God’s bread.
ALSO GROWS
qadosh: Set apart; sacred.
קָדוֹשׁ
This adjective shares the root behind both classes of food, keeping their sacred status within one word-family.
miqdash: Sanctuary; a set-apart place.
מִקְדָּשׁ
The same root names both what is sacred and the place set apart, linking the food he may eat with the sacred sphere.
THE PATTERN
A limit on one form of access can coexist with a distinct provision that remains open.
And the LORD spake unto Aaron, Thou shalt have no inheritance in their land, neither shalt thou have any part among them: I am thy part and thine inheritance among the children of Israel.So that servant came, and shewed his lord these things. Then the master of the house being angry said to his servant, Go out quickly into the streets and lanes of the city, and bring in hither the poor, and the maimed, and the halt, and the blind.And he said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me.THE THREAD
And when the sun is down, he shall be clean, and shall afterward eat of the holy things; because it is his food.Leviticus 22:7 uses the same קֹדֶשׁ (qodesh, set-apart or sacred) family for the food and calls it “his food.” Together, the verses keep consecration and nourishment in the same word-field while making the boundaries around access specific.
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