What Does Leviticus 8:3 Mean in the King James?
And gather thou all the congregation together unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.
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 entire assembly is called to the opening of the meeting tent, where the gathering itself becomes public.
THE MEANING
You meet this call as part of a whole: the congregation comes together at the entrance to the meeting tent. The meeting begins at the threshold, with the gathered community present.
THE ROOT
הַקְהֵל
haqhel
GROWS FROM
קהל
Q-H-L
To assemble or convene.
“gather” in this verse is haqhel. The command הַקְהֵל (haqhel, assemble) and the noun קָהָל (qāhāl, assembly) share the same three-letter root. English separates the action from the people, while Hebrew holds them together: the assembly is what the gathering brings into being.
ALSO GROWS
qāhāl: Assembly or congregation
קָהָל
The people being summoned are named by the same root as the act of gathering them.
hiqhil: Gather or assemble
הִקְהִיל
This related verb form shows the root’s active sense of bringing a group together.
THE PATTERN
Gathering the whole community creates a shared setting for instruction and the disclosure of what God is doing.
And Moses gathered all the congregation of the children of Israel together, and said unto them, These are the words which the LORD hath commanded, that ye should do them.Gather the people together, men, and women, and children, and thy stranger that is within thy gates, that they may hear, and that they may learn, and fear the LORD your God, and observe to do all the words of this law:And when they were come, and had gathered the church together, they rehearsed all that God had done with them, and how he had opened the door of faith unto the Gentiles.THE THREAD
And when they shall blow with them, all the assembly shall assemble themselves to thee at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.The Hebrew verb for “assemble” here comes from the same root קהל (Q-H-L, assemble) as “gather” in Leviticus 8:3. The shared root ties the assembly to the act of gathering at the tent’s entrance.
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