What Does Leviticus 22:19 Mean in the King James?

Ye shall offer at your own will a male without blemish, of the beeves, of the sheep, or of the goats.

Leviticus 22:19 · 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 offering is both freely given and whole: willingness and wholeness stand together.

THE MEANING

The verse names a male animal from the cattle, sheep, or goats, offered willingly and without blemish. The choice to offer and the animal’s wholeness are both part of what is presented.

WHAT THIS UNDOES

Good intent alone makes an offering complete; the verse also names the condition of what is offered.

THE ROOT

תָּמִים

tamim

GROWS FROM

תמם

To be complete or whole; to reach completion.

“without blemish” in this verse is tamim. ⁨תָּמִים⁩ names an animal that is whole and sound. The same root also carries the sense of completeness and integrity, so the offering’s soundness is part of its wholeness, not a separate detail.

ALSO GROWS

tom: Integrity, completeness.

תֹּם

This noun shares the root’s consonants and shows how wholeness can describe integrity as well as soundness.

tamam: To be complete or come to an end.

תָּמַם

The verb makes the root’s core sense visible: the offered animal is described with a word from the family of being complete.

THE PATTERN

In the language of offerings, willingness does not erase the stated condition of wholeness.

If his offering be a burnt sacrifice of the herd, let him offer a male without blemish: he shall offer it of his own voluntary will at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation before the LORD.

Leviticus 1:3 · KJVThe verse joins voluntary giving and an animal without blemish, holding willingness and wholeness together.

And if there be any blemish therein, as if it be lame, or blind, or have any ill blemish, thou shalt not sacrifice it unto the LORD thy God.

Deuteronomy 15:21 · KJVThe verse makes the condition explicit by excluding an animal with a blemish from the offering.

But with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot:

1 Peter 1:19 · KJVThe image of the unblemished offering appears again in the description of the lamb.

THE THREAD

Thou shalt be perfect with the LORD thy God.

Deuteronomy 18:13 · KJV

The Hebrew word translated “perfect” here is ⁨תָּמִים⁩ (tamim), from the same root as “without blemish” in Leviticus 22:19. The shared word carries wholeness from the soundness of the offering into the language of being whole with God.

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