What Does Leviticus 4:32 Mean in the King James?
And if he bring a lamb for a sin offering, he shall bring it a female without blemish.
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 lamb’s “without blemish” is תְּמִימָה (temimah), “whole,” from the same root translated “perfect” in Genesis 17:1.
THE MEANING
When a lamb is brought for the missing, the text names it as female and without blemish. The need is spoken plainly, and the thing brought near is marked as whole.
THE ROOT
חַטָּאת
ḥaṭṭāʾt
GROWS FROM
חטא
ḥ-ṭ-ʾ
To miss, err, or fail to reach.
“sin offering” in this verse is ḥaṭṭāʾt. The offering’s Hebrew name shares its root with the verb for missing or going astray. The word ties the offering directly to the missing it addresses, rather than leaving it as an abstract category.
ALSO GROWS
ḥāṭāʾ: To miss, err, or go wrong.
חָטָא
This verb shares the root of the offering’s name and makes the relation between the missing and the offering visible.
ḥēṭʾ: A miss, error, or fault.
חֵטְא
The same root names the missing that the offering addresses.
תְּמִימָה
temimah
GROWS FROM
תמם
t-m-m
To be complete or whole.
“without blemish” in this verse is temimah. The word carries wholeness, not merely the absence of a visible flaw. Its root also appears in the description of a whole way of walking before God, bringing the offering’s wholeness into connection with a person’s way.
ALSO GROWS
tāmîm: Whole, complete, or without defect.
תָּמִים
This is the masculine form from the same root, used in Genesis 17:1 for “perfect.”
tōm: Integrity or wholeness.
תֹּם
This related form shows the root’s reach from physical completeness to integrity.
קָרְבָּנוֹ
qorbānō
GROWS FROM
קרב
q-r-b
To approach or draw near.
The Hebrew word for offering grows from the root for drawing near. The verse describes what is brought near in response to the missing, and marks it as whole.
ALSO GROWS
qārab: To approach or come near.
קָרַב
This verb is the action held inside the word for offering.
qārōb: Near or close.
קָרוֹב
This related word shows the root’s spatial sense: what is offered is brought into nearness.
THE PATTERN
A lamb brought into a sacred act is repeatedly specified as whole, and that image later names a life offered for redemption.
Your lamb shall be without blemish, a male of the first year: ye shall take it out from the sheep, or from the goats:And if there be any blemish therein, as if it be lame, or blind, or have any ill blemish, thou shalt not sacrifice it unto the LORD thy God.But with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot:THE THREAD
And when Abram was ninety years old and nine, the LORD appeared to Abram, and said unto him, I am the Almighty God; walk before me, and be thou perfect.The lamb is called תְּמִימָה (temimah, whole), and “perfect” here translates תָּמִים (tamim), from the same root. English gives “without blemish” to the offering and “perfect” to the walk, while Hebrew holds their wholeness together.
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