What Does Leviticus 6:18 Mean in the King James?
All the males among the children of Aaron shall eat of it. It shall be a statute for ever in your generations concerning the offerings of the LORD made by fire: every one that toucheth them shall be holy.
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
Here, holiness moves by contact: the consecrated offering sets apart the body that touches it.
THE MEANING
The verse speaks now by placing holiness in material contact: Aaron’s male descendants eat the offering, and whoever touches it is set apart. What is consecrated reaches the body through eating and touch.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
It undoes the belief that holiness is only an inward idea with no material reach; here, contact with the offering carries consecration.
THE ROOT
יִקְדָּשׁ
yikdash
GROWS FROM
קדש
q-d-sh
Set apart; consecrate.
“holy” in this verse is yikdash. The verb describes becoming consecrated, so the line gives holiness an effect: the one who touches the offering is set apart. Its word family names both the set-apart quality and the set-apart place, revealing holiness as a condition that can mark people, objects, and places.
ALSO GROWS
qadosh: Set apart; holy.
קָדוֹשׁ
Names the set-apart quality that the toucher receives.
miqdash: Sanctuary; a place set apart.
מִקְדָּשׁ
Shows the same root marking a place as well as a person.
qiddesh: Consecrated; made holy.
קִדֵּשׁ
Makes explicit the action of setting something apart.
יִגַּע
yiga
GROWS FROM
נגע
n-g-ʿ
Touch, reach, make contact; by extension, strike or affect.
“toucheth” in this verse is yiga. This is physical contact, not merely seeing or knowing the offering is there. A related noun can mean a stroke or affliction, giving contact the sense of something that lands and affects; here, its effect is consecration.
ALSO GROWS
naga: Touch; reach; strike.
נָגַע
The verb names the contact that carries the verse’s consequence.
nega: Stroke; affliction; plague.
נֶגַע
Shows that this root can describe contact as an impact that marks what it reaches.
THE PATTERN
Set-apartness reaches beyond its first bearer through contact with consecrated things and through close relational bonds.
Seven days thou shalt make an atonement for the altar, and sanctify it; and it shall be an altar most holy: whatsoever toucheth the altar shall be holy.For the unbelieving husband is sanctified by the wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified by the husband: else were your children unclean; but now are they holy.THE THREAD
Seven days thou shalt make an atonement for the altar, and sanctify it; and it shall be an altar most holy: whatsoever toucheth the altar shall be holy.Exodus 29:37 uses the same root, קדש (q-d-sh, set apart or consecrate), for the result of touching the altar. The parallel shows consecration reaching beyond the sacred object through material contact.
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