What Does Leviticus 7:11 Mean?
And this is the instruction of the slaughter of the wholeness offerings, which shall be brought near to the LORD.
Key words are shown with the Hebrew or Greek and what each word meant.
Selah Decoded Version The Selah Decoded Version renders what the Hebrew and Greek words meant to the people who first heard them.
King James wording
King James Version
And this is the law of the sacrifice of peace offerings, which he shall offer unto the LORD.THE KEY
The offering called “peace” is named for wholeness, and the act of offering means bringing it near.
THE MEANING
This verse names an offering by the wholeness it carries: shelamim, rooted in shalom, holds a fuller sense than the absence of conflict. The offering is brought near to the LORD, picturing wholeness as something held in relationship.
THE ROOT
שְׁלָמִים
shelamim
GROWS FROM
שלם
sh-l-m
To be whole or complete; to make whole.
“wholeness offerings” in this verse is shelamim. The word translated “peace offerings” comes from the same root as shalom, wholeness. Its family also includes words for being complete and making good, so the offering’s name holds restoration and completeness, not only a quiet state.
ALSO GROWS
shalom: Wholeness, well-being
שָׁלוֹם
This is the familiar branch of the same root, revealing the depth carried by the offering’s name.
shalem: Whole, complete
שָׁלֵם
This branch shows that the offering’s name is grounded in completeness.
shillem: To repay or make good
שִׁלֵּם
This branch carries the sense of making something complete or restoring what is owed.
יַקְרִיב
yakriv
GROWS FROM
קרב
q-r-b
To come near or draw close; in this verb form, to bring near.
“brought near” in this verse is yakriv. The verb translated “offer” means to bring near. Its root family connects an offering with approach, so this act is not only presentation but movement into nearness.
ALSO GROWS
korban: Offering; something brought near
קָרְבָּן
This related word for an offering makes the nearness inside the verse’s action visible.
qarov: Near, close
קָרוֹב
This branch shows the root’s basic spatial sense, which the verse carries into the act of offering.
THE PATTERN
Wholeness takes shape where what is divided is brought into restored relationship.
If his drawing near is a wholeness offering from the herd, male or female, he brings it near whole before the LORD.Faithful love and truth meet; alignment and wholeness kiss.For he is our wholeness, the one who made both one and loosed the middle wall of the fence.THE THREAD
Faithful love and truth meet; alignment and wholeness kiss.The Hebrew word translated “peace” here is שָׁלוֹם (shalom), sharing the root שלם (sh-l-m) with the shelamim offering. The psalm pictures wholeness as faithful love and truth meeting, extending the offering’s name beyond calm into restored relationship.
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