What Does Leviticus 24:6 Mean in the King James?
And thou shalt set them in two rows, six on a row, upon the pure table before the LORD.
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 “rows” are more than a count: the bread is deliberately arrayed, so fullness appears as ordered provision before the LORD.
THE MEANING
You are shown fullness as ordered provision: twelve loaves occupy two equal rows on the pure table before the LORD. Each portion has a place within the whole.
THE ROOT
מַעֲרָכוֹת
maʿărākōt
GROWS FROM
עָרַךְ
ʿārakh
to arrange, set in order
The KJV’s “rows” translates a form of עָרַךְ, meaning to arrange or set in order. The bread’s meaning is carried not only by how much is there, but by the formed pattern that places every portion before the LORD.
ALSO GROWS
maʿărākhāh: an array or arrangement
מַעֲרָכָה
This related form names the ordered pattern itself, echoing how the loaves are placed in rows.
ʿērekh: value or valuation
עֵרֶךְ
This branch connects arrangement with measured worth: each portion is counted and given a defined place in the whole.
THE PATTERN
Provision becomes visible as each portion is given a place within an ordered whole.
And thou shalt set upon the table shewbread before me alway.And they sat down in ranks, by hundreds, and by fifties.Let all things be done decently and in order.THE THREAD
Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies: thou anointest my head with oil; my cup runneth over.“Preparest” comes from the same root, עָרַךְ (ʿārakh), meaning to arrange or set in order. The shared root joins Leviticus’s rows with the Psalm’s prepared table: provision arranged in the presence of the LORD.
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