What Does Leviticus 9:2 Mean in the King James?
And he said unto Aaron, Take thee a young calf for a sin offering, and a ram for a burnt offering, without blemish, and offer them before the LORD.
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 offering for the missing is presented as whole and brought near: missing, wholeness, and approach meet in one scene.
THE MEANING
Your missing is named alongside an offering that is whole and brought before the LORD. What addresses the missing is not concealed from that presence; it is brought near.
THE ROOT
חַטָּאת
chatta't missing or
GROWS FROM
חטא
ḥ-ṭ-ʾ
to miss, err, or go wrong
The word translated “sin offering” is rooted in the language of missing or going wrong. Its name keeps the missing in view even as the offering addresses it.
ALSO GROWS
chata: to miss or err
חָטָא
The verb names the action behind the offering’s root: missing the mark.
chet: a miss or offense
חֵטְא
This noun shows the root can name the missing itself.
chatta't: missing; an offering for the missing
חַטָּאת
The same word can name both the missing and the offering associated with it.
תָּמִים
tamim whole or
GROWS FROM
תמם
t-m-m
to be complete or whole
“without blemish” in this verse is tamim whole or. The offering is described with a word whose root carries completeness and wholeness. Beside the word for missing, it places what is incomplete and what is whole in the same scene.
ALSO GROWS
tam: whole or sound
תָּם
This related form carries the root’s sense of wholeness.
tom: integrity or completeness
תֹּם
The branch extends wholeness from physical soundness to integrity.
tamim: whole, sound, or without blemish
תָּמִים
This is the verse’s description of what is brought before the LORD.
הַקְרֵב
haqrev bring near
GROWS FROM
קרב
q-r-b
to approach or draw near
“offer” in this verse is haqrev bring near. The Hebrew verb carries the movement of bringing near. The act in the verse is not only giving an offering; it is bringing it into presence.
ALSO GROWS
qarab: to approach or draw near
קָרַב
This verb names the movement held in the root.
qarov: near
קָרוֹב
This related word describes the nearness toward which the action moves.
qorban: an offering, something brought near
קָרְבָּן
The noun preserves the root’s sense of approach within the offering itself.
THE PATTERN
The offering that addresses the missing is brought near as whole.
Your lamb shall be without blemish, a male of the first year: ye shall take it out from the sheep, or from the goats:For by one offering he hath perfected for ever them that are sanctified.But with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot:THE THREAD
If the priest that is anointed do sin according to the sin of the people; then let him bring for his sin, which he hath sinned, a young bullock without blemish unto the LORD for a sin offering.This verse repeats חַטָּאת (chatta’t, missing or offering for the missing) and pairs it with an offering without blemish. The repeated root makes the link plain: the missing is named in the same offering that is brought near whole.
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