What Does Leviticus 7:2 Mean in the King James?
In the place where they kill the burnt offering shall they kill the trespass offering: and the blood thereof shall he sprinkle round about upon the altar.
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 guilt offering is slaughtered where the offering named for “going up” is slaughtered, bringing liability into the same altar-space as ascent.
THE MEANING
The offering for guilt is slaughtered in the same place as the burnt offering, and its blood is cast around the altar. The verse gives guilt a visible form at the altar, where it meets an offering named for going up. Both offerings occupy the same sacred space.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
The lie that guilt must be carried somewhere separate from complete offering is undone: the two offerings are slaughtered in the same place.
THE ROOT
עֹלָה
ʿōlāh
GROWS FROM
עלה
ʿ-l-h
Go up, ascend.
The offering translated “burnt offering” also carries the sense of something that goes up. The verse places the guilt offering in the same place of slaughter, bringing liability into the same offering-space as ascent.
ALSO GROWS
ʿālāh: To go up, ascend.
עָלָה
This verb is the root beneath the offering’s name and makes its upward movement audible.
maʿălāh: Ascent, rising.
מַעֲלָה
This related form keeps the sense of upward movement close to the name of the offering.
אָשָׁם
ʾāšām
GROWS FROM
אשם
ʾ-š-m
Be guilty or incur liability.
“trespass offering” in this verse is ʾāšām. The root names the condition of being liable as well as the offering associated with that liability. English gives these different expressions, while Hebrew keeps them in one word-family.
ALSO GROWS
ʾāšēm: Guilty, liable.
אָשֵׁם
This verbal form names the condition carried by the offering’s name.
ʾăšāmâ: Guilt, liability.
אֲשָׁמָה
This related noun preserves guilt as a named state within the same root-family.
יִזְרֹק
yizrōq
GROWS FROM
זרק
z-r-q
Throw, cast.
The Hebrew verb also means to throw or cast, giving the blood’s movement a physical force that English “sprinkle” may not convey on its own. The related word for a basin belongs to the same family of casting and sprinkling.
ALSO GROWS
zāraq: To throw, cast.
זָרַק
This verb makes the blood’s movement around the altar more concrete.
mizrāq: Basin or bowl used for sprinkling.
מִזְרָק
This related noun connects the act of casting with a vessel used in the same sacrificial setting.
THE PATTERN
Offerings that address guilt are given a visible place in the sacrificial order, with blood brought to the altar.
And he shall slay the lamb in the place where he shall kill the sin offering and the burnt offering, in the holy place: for as the sin offering is the priest’s, so is the trespass offering: it is most holy:And thou shalt take of the blood of the bullock, and put it upon the horns of the altar with thy finger, and pour all the blood beside the bottom of the altar.And almost all things are by the law purged with blood; and without shedding of blood is no remission.THE THREAD
And if a soul sin, and commit any of these things which are forbidden to be done by the commandments of the LORD; though he wist it not, yet is he guilty, and shall bear his iniquity.The Hebrew word translated “guilty” comes from the same root as “trespass offering” in Leviticus 7:2. The root holds liability and the offering associated with it in one word-family.
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