What Does Leviticus 23:34 Mean in the King James?

Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, The fifteenth day of this seventh month shall be the feast of tabernacles for seven days unto the LORD.

Leviticus 23:34 · KJV

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THE KEY

The feast’s name makes shelter part of sacred time: holiness takes shape beneath a covering.

THE MEANING

A marked day opens seven days set apart unto the LORD; time itself becomes a place of meeting. The word translated “tabernacles” names shelters made by covering, so sacredness here takes shape in a temporary dwelling.

WHAT THIS UNDOES

A sacred encounter requires a permanent sanctuary.

THE ROOT

סֻכּוֹת

sukkot

GROWS FROM

סכך

To cover, screen, or enclose.

“tabernacles” in this verse is sukkot. The Hebrew word is sukkot, “booths” or “shelters,” from a root of covering and screening. That word family keeps the act of sheltering inside the feast’s name: a temporary dwelling can still be set apart.

ALSO GROWS

sukkāh: Booth, shelter

סֻכָּה

This singular form names the shelter that gives the feast its name.

sākhakh: To cover, screen, or hedge over

סָכַךְ

The root verb shows the covering action inside the idea of a shelter.

māsākh: Screen, covering

מָסָךְ

This related form keeps the root’s sense of a covering that makes a boundary or enclosure.

THE PATTERN

A dwelling can make divine nearness visible through shelter rather than permanence.

Ye shall dwell in booths seven days; all that are Israelites born shall dwell in booths:

Leviticus 23:42 · KJVThe feast becomes a lived dwelling in booths, making shelter the form of its sacred time.

For in the time of trouble he shall hide me in his pavilion: in the secret of his tabernacle shall he hide me; he shall set me up upon a rock.

Psalm 27:5 · KJVA shelter becomes the image of being hidden and held through trouble.

And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.

John 1:14 · KJVDivine nearness appears as a dwelling among people, not as a distant structure.

THE THREAD

For in the time of trouble he shall hide me in his pavilion: in the secret of his tabernacle shall he hide me; he shall set me up upon a rock.

Psalm 27:5 · KJV

The Hebrew word translated “pavilion” is sukkah, the same shelter word behind “tabernacles” here. The feast’s shelter becomes refuge in trouble: one root joins sacred time to being held.

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