What Does Leviticus 7:29 Mean in the King James?
Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, He that offereth the sacrifice of his peace offerings unto the LORD shall bring his oblation unto the LORD of the sacrifice of his peace offerings.
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, an offering is an approach, and the peace offering carries wholeness into that approach.
THE MEANING
The verse speaks of wholeness as something carried into presence: the one who draws near brings an offering to the LORD. Approach and gift belong together, so wholeness takes concrete form in what is brought.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
It undoes the idea that drawing near is only inward: here, nearness takes shape in what the person brings.
THE ROOT
הַמַּקְרִיב
hammaqriv
GROWS FROM
קרב
q-r-b
To approach or draw near.
“offereth / oblation” in this verse is hammaqriv. The Hebrew uses this root for both the one who offers and the oblation. What English presents as a person and an object share an approach-root: the offering is the concrete form of coming near.
ALSO GROWS
qārab: Approach; draw near.
קָרַב
This verb reveals the movement inside the act of offering.
qorbān: Offering; that which is brought near.
קָרְבָּן
The offering itself carries the language of approach.
qārōv: Near; close.
קָרוֹב
This branch shows the same root naming nearness as a state as well as a movement.
שְׁלָמָיו
shelamav
GROWS FROM
שלם
sh-l-m
To be whole, complete, or sound.
“peace offerings” in this verse is shelamav. The name of the peace offering carries the root of wholeness. Beside the offering-root of approach, it joins wholeness with nearness to the LORD.
ALSO GROWS
shalom: Wholeness; well-being.
שָׁלוֹם
This familiar word shares the root carried by the peace offering.
shalem: Whole; complete.
שָׁלֵם
This branch makes the root’s sense of completeness explicit.
THE PATTERN
What is brought before God takes concrete form as an offering.
And if his oblation be a sacrifice of peace offering, if he offer it of the herd; whether it be a male or female, he shall offer it without blemish before the LORD.I will offer to thee the sacrifice of thanksgiving, and will call upon the name of the LORD.I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.THE THREAD
Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, If any man of you bring an offering unto the LORD, ye shall bring your offering of the cattle, even of the herd, and of the flock.The same Hebrew root, קרב (q-r-b, approach or draw near), shapes “bring an offering” here and “oblation” in Leviticus 7:29. The text treats the offering as an enacted approach, joined to the one who brings it.
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