What Does 1 Kings 4:22 Mean?
And the bread of Solomon for one day was thirty measures of fine flour, and threescore measures of meal.
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 Solomon’s provision for one day was thirty measures of fine flour, and threescore measures of meal,THE KEY
What the KJV calls Solomon’s “provision” is literally bread: abundance is pictured as a day’s food, measured in grain.
THE MEANING
You encounter abundance here in a daily rhythm: provision is named for one day and counted in food. The quantity is extraordinary, yet its measure is still the ordinary day. Sustenance is tangible, bread and grain, set out to feed a household.
THE ROOT
לֶחֶם
lechem
GROWS FROM
לחם
Bread, food
The Hebrew says “Solomon’s bread,” where English gives the broader word “provision.” The same word appears in “bread of the Presence” and in Bethlehem, “house of bread,” linking everyday food with bread set before the LORD and with a place whose name carries bread.
ALSO GROWS
lechem ha-panim: Bread of the Presence; the loaves set before the LORD
לֶחֶם הַפָּנִים
The shared word lechem connects ordinary household food with bread placed before God.
Beit Lechem: House of bread; Bethlehem
בֵּית לֶחֶם
The name carries lechem within it, making bread part of the place’s very name.
THE PATTERN
Provision takes the shape of a daily measure, sustaining life one day at a time.
Then the LORD said to Moses, Look, I will rain bread for you from the heavens. The people shall go out and gather each day's portion on its day, that I may test them, whether they will walk in my instruction or not.Give us today our bread for the coming day.THE THREAD
Then the LORD said to Moses, Look, I will rain bread for you from the heavens. The people shall go out and gather each day's portion on its day, that I may test them, whether they will walk in my instruction or not.The Hebrew word lechem, “bread,” links Solomon’s daily supply to the bread gathered each day in Exodus. The connection holds together extraordinary household abundance and the simple measure of food for one day.
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