What Does Leviticus 6:9 Mean in the King James?

Command Aaron and his sons, saying, This is the law of the burnt offering: It is the burnt offering, because of the burning upon the altar all night unto the morning, and the fire of the altar shall be burning in it.

Leviticus 6:9 · KJV

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THE KEY

The burnt offering is named as an ascent, and that ascent continues in the fire through the night until morning.

THE MEANING

You encounter the offering as an ascent that remains in the fire through the night until morning. The verse holds both movements together: the offering burns upon the altar, and the altar’s fire continues.

THE ROOT

עֹלָה

ʿōlāh

GROWS FROM

עלה

To go up, rise, or ascend.

The Hebrew word adds the image of upward movement to the burnt offering. Its name does not remove the fire, the verse describes the offering burning all night, but holds rising and consuming in one image.

ALSO GROWS

ʿālāh: To go up or ascend.

עָלָה

This verb shares the offering’s root and makes its upward movement audible in the word itself.

ʿaliyyāh: An ascent; also an upper room.

עֲלִיָּה

This related word uses the same root for an ascent, showing that ⁨עֹלָה⁩ carries more than the English phrase “burnt offering” alone.

תּוּקַד

tûqad

GROWS FROM

יקד

To kindle or burn.

The verse sets ⁨מוֹקְדָה⁩ (mōqedāh, “hearth”) beside ⁨תּוּקַד⁩ (tûqad, “shall burn”): the place of fire and the act of burning share the root ⁨יקד⁩. Hebrew lets the hearth and its continuing flame echo one another.

ALSO GROWS

mōqedāh: Hearth or place of burning.

מוֹקְדָה

This word appears earlier in the verse for the place where the offering burns, sharing its root with the fire that continues through the night.

mōqēd: A burning place or flame.

מֹקֵד

This related form keeps the same root’s image of fire as an ongoing force.

THE PATTERN

An offering can be a continuing act, sustained beyond the moment it is placed before God.

This shall be a continual burnt offering throughout your generations at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation before the LORD: where I will meet you, to speak there unto thee.

Exodus 29:42 · KJVThe offering is described as continual, extending beyond a single moment of presentation.

Let my prayer be set forth before thee as incense; and the lifting up of my hands as the evening sacrifice.

Psalm 141:2 · KJVPrayer is pictured as an offering that marks the evening.

And another angel came and stood at the altar, having a golden censer; and there was given unto him much incense, that he should offer it with the prayers of all saints upon the golden altar which was before the throne.

Revelation 8:3 · KJVIncense is offered with the prayers of the saints, joining an act of offering to an ongoing expression.

THE THREAD

And Noah builded an altar unto the LORD; and took of every clean beast, and of every clean fowl, and offered burnt offerings on the altar.

Genesis 8:20 · KJV

In Hebrew, “offered” and “burnt offerings” in this verse share the root ⁨עלה⁩ (ʿalah), meaning “to ascend.” Leviticus names the offering ⁨עֹלָה⁩ (ʿōlāh), so the upward motion is present in its name even as it burns on the altar.

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