What Does Psalm 96:8 Mean in the King James?
Give unto the LORD the glory due unto his name: bring an offering, and come into his courts.
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 LORD’s glory is weight: to give weight to his name is to give weight to the nature it names.
THE MEANING
The LORD’s name is his nature, and its glory carries weight now. The verse gives that recognition a visible shape: an offering is lifted and carried, and you come into the courts. Naming, bearing, and approaching belong together here.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
The verse undoes the idea that honoring the LORD’s name is only verbal praise: it joins that honor to a carried offering and entrance into his courts.
THE ROOT
כָּבוֹד
kavod
GROWS FROM
כבד
k-b-d
To be heavy or weighty.
English “glory” can sound like a title or display, but kavod carries the sense of weight. Giving the LORD’s name glory is giving weight to the nature the name holds.
ALSO GROWS
kaved: Heavy, weighty.
כָּבֵד
The shared root keeps the physical sense of weight inside the word translated “glory.”
kibbed: To honor or treat as weighty.
כִּבֵּד
This branch shows honor as recognizing weight, which makes the verse’s invitation more concrete.
שְׂאוּ
se’u
GROWS FROM
נשא
n-s-ʾ
To lift, carry, or bear.
The verb translated “bring” is the command to lift or carry. The offering enters the verse as something borne toward the LORD, joining the act of giving to the act of lifting.
ALSO GROWS
nasa: To lift, carry, or bear.
נָשָׂא
This is the verb’s wider range, which lets “bring” retain the image of carrying.
massa: A burden or load.
מַשָּׂא
From the same root, this branch echoes the physical weight already present in “glory.”
THE PATTERN
The weight given to the LORD’s name becomes visible through what is brought before him and how his presence is entered.
Enter into his gates with thanksgiving, and into his courts with praise: be thankful unto him, and bless his name.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.By him therefore let us offer the sacrifice of praise to God continually, that is, the fruit of our lips giving thanks to his name.THE THREAD
Not unto us, O LORD, not unto us, but unto thy name give glory, for thy mercy, and for thy truth’s sake.This verse repeats the pairing of glory and the LORD’s name, then connects that honor with mercy and truth. It opens Psalm 96:8 further: the name carries a nature, and giving it weight means recognizing what that nature embodies.
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