What Does Leviticus 9:19 Mean in the King James?
And the fat of the bullock and of the ram, the rump, and that which covereth the inwards, and the kidneys, and the caul above the liver:
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 text names the covering of the inward parts as carefully as the parts it hides.
THE MEANING
Here, the hidden interior is specific and nameable: the fat, the covering, the kidneys, and the liver are held in view together. The covering does not erase what lies beneath it; both the layer and the inward parts are named.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
What is covered is not therefore absent or beyond notice; the covering and the inward parts are each named.
THE ROOT
הַמְכַסֶּה
hamkasseh
GROWS FROM
כסה
cover, conceal
“that which covereth” in this verse is hamkasseh. כסה (kāsāh, to cover) appears here as the word for what covers the inwards. Hebrew names the covering and the organs beneath it separately, so concealment does not make the interior disappear from view.
ALSO GROWS
kāsāh: to cover
כָּסָה
This verb carries the same consonants as the verse’s covering, showing the action held inside the noun-like form.
mekhasseh: a covering; one who covers
מְכַסֶּה
This form shares the root consonants כ־ס־ה and makes the covering itself the named subject.
כָּבֵד
kaved
GROWS FROM
כבד
be heavy; weight
The Hebrew word for liver, כָּבֵד (kaved, liver), shares כבד with כָּבֵד (kaved, heavy) and כָּבוֹד (kavod, weight or honor). The English anatomical label hides this weight-family, which also gives the project’s established understanding of kavod as weight.
ALSO GROWS
kaved: heavy
כָּבֵד
It shares all three consonants with the Hebrew word for liver, revealing their connection within the weight-family.
kavod: weight; honor
כָּבוֹד
Its consonants match כבד, linking the liver named here with the language of weight and honor.
THE PATTERN
What covers the inward parts and what lies within them remain distinguishable and fully named.
For thou hast possessed my reins: thou hast covered me in my mother’s womb.But the LORD said unto Samuel, Look not on his countenance, or on the height of his stature; because I have refused him: for the Lord seeth not as man seeth; for man looketh on the outward appearance, but the LORD looketh on the heart.Neither is there any creature that is not manifest in his sight: but all things are naked and opened unto the eyes of him with whom we have to do.THE THREAD
Then a cloud covered the tent of the congregation, and the glory of the LORD filled the tabernacle.Leviticus uses הַמְכַסֶּה (hamkasseh, the covering), from כסה (kāsāh, to cover); Exodus uses that same root when the cloud covers the tent. The shared verb connects a covering over inward organs with a covering over sacred space.
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