What Does Leviticus 4:33 Mean in the King James?
And he shall lay his hand upon the head of the sin offering, and slay it for a sin offering in the place where they kill the burnt offering.
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 same Hebrew word names both the missing and its offering, placing the rupture and its cost in one name.
THE MEANING
Here the missing is not an abstraction: a hand touches a living head, and the animal is slain. The Hebrew חַטָּאת (ḥaṭṭāʾt, missing or sin offering) names both the missing and the offering brought for it, holding rupture and cost together. The act remains bodily and costly.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
The belief that a missing is only an abstract label with no embodied cost; here the animal’s death makes the cost visible.
THE ROOT
חַטָּאת
ḥaṭṭāʾt
GROWS FROM
חטא
The root חטא (ḥṭʾ; chata) means to miss, fail, or miss the mark.
One Hebrew noun can name both the missing and the offering brought for it; English renders those senses as “sin” and “sin offering.” The shared root holds the rupture and its costly answer together in one word.
ALSO GROWS
ḥāṭāʾ: To miss, fail, or sin.
חָטָא
The verb names the act of missing that the offering noun also carries.
ḥaṭṭāʾt: Missing, sin, or sin offering.
חַטָּאת
This noun gives the verse its compressed link between what is missing and the offering brought for it.
THE PATTERN
The word for a missing can also name the offering brought in response to it.
And he shall bring his trespass offering unto the LORD for his sin which he hath sinned, a female from the flock, a lamb or a kid of the goats, for a sin offering; and the priest shall make an atonement for him concerning his sin.Against thee, thee only, have I sinned, and done this evil in thy sight: that thou mightest be justified when thou speakest, and be clear when thou judgest.In burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin thou hast had no pleasure.THE THREAD
Yet it pleased the LORD to bruise him; he hath put him to grief: when thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin, he shall see his seed, he shall prolong his days, and the pleasure of the LORD shall prosper in his hand.The phrase “offering for sin” uses חַטָּאת (ḥaṭṭāʾt, missing or sin offering), the same Hebrew noun used here. The word again holds the missing and its offering together, with an offered life at the center of the line.
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