What Does Leviticus 4:28 Mean in the King James?
Or if his sin, which he hath sinned, come to his knowledge: then he shall bring his offering, a kid of the goats, a female without blemish, for his sin which he hath sinned.
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 verse joins a miss coming into awareness to an offering rooted in drawing near, so recognition becomes the starting point of approach.
THE MEANING
When a miss comes into your awareness, the verse names a concrete response: a female goat without blemish is brought as an offering for it. The miss is named twice, while awareness marks the point when a response comes into view.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
It undoes the belief that seeing a wrong closes the matter: recognition marks the beginning of a response.
THE ROOT
קָרְבָּנוֹ
qorbānô
GROWS FROM
ק־ר־ב
q-r-b
to draw near, approach
The word translated “offering” is קָרְבָּנוֹ (qorbānô, his offering), built on ק־ר־ב (q-r-b), the root meaning “draw near.” Its word family joins the response to a known miss with the movement of approach.
ALSO GROWS
qārab: to approach, come near
קָרַב
It makes the offering’s root sense a movement toward nearness.
qārōb: near, close
קָרוֹב
This related form shows the same root linking approach with nearness.
חַטָּאתוֹ
ḥaṭṭāʾtô
GROWS FROM
ח־ט־א
ḥ-ṭ-ʾ
to miss, go wrong
“sin” in this verse is ḥaṭṭāʾtô. The Hebrew repeats this root in both the miss that becomes known and the miss named again as the reason for the offering. That repetition keeps the newly seen failure directly before the response.
ALSO GROWS
ḥāṭāʾ: to miss, fail
חָטָא
The verse uses this root again in “which he hath sinned,” echoing the same miss.
ḥēṭʾ: a miss, failure
חֵטְא
This noun form carries the concrete sense of a miss into the word rendered “sin.”
THE PATTERN
Recognition of a miss begins a concrete movement toward response.
I acknowledged my sin unto thee, and mine iniquity have I not hid. I said, I will confess my transgressions unto the LORD; and thou forgavest the iniquity of my sin. Selah.Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much.If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.THE THREAD
I acknowledged my sin unto thee, and mine iniquity have I not hid. I said, I will confess my transgressions unto the LORD; and thou forgavest the iniquity of my sin. Selah.Psalm 32:5 uses the חטא (ḥ-ṭ-ʾ, “miss”) word family for “sin,” the same root heard in Leviticus 4:28. Here the miss is no longer hidden but acknowledged, opening the verse’s movement from awareness toward response.
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