What Does 1 Kings 22:46 Mean?
And the remnant of the set-apart ones, who remained in the days of his father Asa, he burned out of the land.
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 the remnant of the sodomites, which remained in the days of his father Asa, he took out of the land.THE KEY
The verse treats a clearing as unfinished while a remnant still remains inside the land.
THE MEANING
An earlier clearing does not mean the land is already free of what it sought to remove: a remnant remains, and the verse names its removal. The sentence keeps that residue visible until it is taken from the land.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
The first removal clears everything; this verse insists that a remnant can remain.
THE ROOT
הַקָּדֵשׁ
ha-qadesh
GROWS FROM
קדשׁ
q-d-sh
Set apart; consecrate.
“sodomites” in this verse is ha-qadesh. The Hebrew term carries the sense of being set apart alongside its use for a cultic role. That consecration echo brings an added layer to the verse’s account of the remnant being removed from the land.
ALSO GROWS
qadosh: Set apart.
קָדוֹשׁ
The shared root makes the language of being set apart audible beneath the group named in the verse.
qodesh: That which is set apart; sacredness.
קֹדֶשׁ
This branch carries the root’s sacred dimension, placing the remnant’s cultic association in view.
qiddesh: Set apart, consecrate.
קִדֵּשׁ
The verb shows the root as an act of designation, not only a label.
יֶתֶר
yether
GROWS FROM
יתר
y-t-r
Remain over; be left behind.
The verse names both a remnant and what remained, making persistence central before it names removal. The root pictures what is left over after an earlier action, still present within the boundary.
ALSO GROWS
yatar: Remain over; be left.
יָתַר
The verb gives the noun its image of something that survives what came before.
yoter: More; what remains.
יוֹתֵר
This branch also carries the sense of what is still there after a prior measure or action.
THE PATTERN
A community’s clearing is shown by what it removes from within its shared boundaries.
Seven days you will eat unrisen bread. But on the first day you will make the leaven cease from your houses, for whoever eats risen bread from the first day until the seventh day, that living soul will be cut off from Israel.And he tore down the houses of the set-apart men, which were beside the house of the LORD, where the women wove tents for the Asherah pole.But those outside, God will judge. Lift out the wicked one from among yourselves.THE THREAD
And he tore down the houses of the set-apart men, which were beside the house of the LORD, where the women wove tents for the Asherah pole.The same Hebrew root appears in the term for the group whose houses are named here, linking the people in this verse to spaces marked by the same cultic category. That connection opens the removal beyond the remnant of people to the places associated with them.
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