What Does Leviticus 23:19 Mean in the King James?
Then ye shall sacrifice one kid of the goats for a sin offering, and two lambs of the first year for a sacrifice of peace offerings.
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 places what is missing beside wholeness, so wholeness does not have to erase what has gone wrong.
THE MEANING
This verse speaks now by holding two realities together: what has gone wrong is named, and wholeness is named alongside it. Neither cancels the other; wholeness does not require pretending nothing is missing.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
It undoes the belief that wholeness requires concealing what is missing.
THE ROOT
חַטָּאת
chatat
GROWS FROM
חטא
ḥṭʾ
to miss, go wrong, or miss the mark
Under “sin offering” is חַטָּאת (chatat, an offering for the missing), from חטא (ḥṭʾ, to miss or go wrong). Its branches keep the focus on a miss or misstep, while the paired shelamim names wholeness: the verse gives each its own place.
ALSO GROWS
chata: to miss; to go wrong
חָטָא
This verb is the action beneath the offering’s name: something has missed its mark and is brought into view.
chet: a missing; an offense
חֵטְא
This noun names the miss itself, keeping the verse’s attention on what has gone wrong and can be addressed.
שְׁלָמִים
shelamim
GROWS FROM
שלם
š-l-m
to be whole or complete; to make whole
“peace offerings” in this verse is shelamim. שְׁלָמִים (shelamim, offerings of wholeness) belongs to the root שלם (š-l-m, whole or complete). Its branches connect wholeness with well-being and making good, so the verse places a distinct movement toward wholeness beside what is missing.
ALSO GROWS
shalom: wholeness; well-being
שָׁלוֹם
This familiar branch shares the root of shelamim and shows how the offering’s name belongs to a wider language of wholeness.
shalem: whole; complete
שָׁלֵם
This branch names the state carried in the root, illuminating the wholeness named alongside the offering for the missing.
shillem: to repay; to make good
שִׁלֵּם
This branch carries the sense of making good what is owed, adding a dimension of restoration to the root’s wholeness.
THE PATTERN
What is broken can be named while wholeness is also held in view; neither has to cancel the other.
The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit: a broken and a contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise.The LORD will give strength unto his people; the LORD will bless his people with peace.For he is our peace, who hath made both one, and hath broken down the middle wall of partition between us;THE THREAD
The LORD will give strength unto his people; the LORD will bless his people with peace.The Hebrew שְׁלָמִים (shelamim, offerings of wholeness) and שָׁלוֹם (shalom, wholeness) grow from שלם (š-l-m, whole or complete). Leviticus gives this root a ritual shape; the psalm names wholeness as a blessing given to the people.
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