What Does Leviticus 4:11 Mean in the King James?
And the skin of the bullock, and all his flesh, with his head, and with his legs, and his inwards, and his dung,
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 word for the bull’s inwards belongs to the same Hebrew root family as “draw near” and “offering,” placing its hidden interior inside the language of approach.
THE MEANING
The verse names the body in full: skin, flesh, head, legs, inner parts, and waste. Nothing hidden or distasteful is left out of its account.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
The lie that only the visible or presentable parts belong in a complete accounting of the body.
THE ROOT
קִרְבּוֹ
qirbō
GROWS FROM
ק־ר־ב
q-r-b
Approach, come near.
English “inwards” sounds like a plain anatomical label, but qirbō belongs to the q-r-b word family that also gives qarab, “draw near,” and qorban, “offering.” The verse names the hidden interior with the same root that carries approach and offering, alongside every external part.
ALSO GROWS
qereb: Interior, midst.
קֶרֶב
This is the noun for what is within, close in form to the word for the bull’s inwards.
qarab: Approach, draw near.
קָרַב
The same root family holds the movement of coming near.
qorban: Offering; that which is brought near.
קָרְבָּן
This branch makes the root’s language of nearness part of the vocabulary of an offering.
THE PATTERN
The sacrificial body is named and accounted for whole, down to its interior and waste, before it is taken outside the camp.
Even the whole bullock shall he carry forth without the camp unto a clean place, where the ashes are poured out, and burn him on the wood with fire: where the ashes are poured out shall he be burnt.But the flesh of the bullock, and his skin, and his dung, shalt thou burn with fire without the camp: it is a sin offering.For the bodies of those beasts, whose blood is brought into the sanctuary by the high priest for sin, are burned without the camp.THE THREAD
But it is good for me to draw near to God: I have put my trust in the Lord GOD, that I may declare all thy works.The Hebrew for “draw near” in this psalm comes from the same q-r-b root family as qirbō, “its inwards,” in Leviticus 4:11. The shared root lets inwardness and approach resonate together while this verse names the interior as part of the whole body.
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