What Does 1 Kings 5:10 Mean?
So Hiram gave Solomon the trees of cedar and the trees of fir, according to all his desire.
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
So Hiram gave Solomon cedar trees and fir trees according to all his desire.THE KEY
The verse’s hidden movement is from desire to wholeness through a gift placed within reach.
THE MEANING
Your desire takes material form here as cedar and fir placed within reach through another person’s giving. Solomon’s name echoes shalom, wholeness, so the verse holds desire, provision, and wholeness together in one scene.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
It loosens the belief that a desire can become tangible only through what you provide yourself.
THE ROOT
וַיִּתֵּן
vayyitten
GROWS FROM
נתן
Give, set, place.
English “gave” can sound like a simple transfer, while natan also carries “set” and “place”: the gift is something put within reach. Hiram’s giving makes the trees available for Solomon’s desire.
ALSO GROWS
mattanah: Gift.
מַתָּנָה
This noun grows from the same root, making the giving itself visible in the thing given.
natun: Given, placed.
נָתוּן
This form shows the result of giving: something has been set within another’s reach.
שְׁלֹמֹה
Shelomoh
GROWS FROM
שלם
sh-l-m
Be whole, complete, sound.
Solomon’s name shares the שלם seed with shalom, wholeness. The materials arrive for his project, so his name adds a resonance of wholeness to this scene of provision.
ALSO GROWS
shalom: Wholeness.
שָׁלוֹם
This familiar branch makes the wholeness carried in Solomon’s name audible.
shalem: Whole, complete.
שָׁלֵם
This form shows the root’s sense of completeness, echoing the name’s nature.
חֶפְצוֹ
chephtso
GROWS FROM
חפץ
Take pleasure in, desire.
The word here means “his desire,” and חפץ can also name pleasure or a desired thing: wanting and what is wanted share a root. The trees are the visible answer to that desire.
ALSO GROWS
chephets: Desire, pleasure, or a desired thing.
חֵפֶץ
This noun holds both the longing and its object within the same root family.
chafets: Delight in, take pleasure in.
חָפֵץ
This verb connects desire with delight, adding the sense of what one values or takes pleasure in.
THE PATTERN
What is longed for takes tangible form when provision is given in response.
For he sates the thirsting living soul, and fills the hungry living soul with goodness.Yet he did not leave himself without witness, doing good, giving you rain from heaven and seasons that bear fruit, filling your hearts with food and gladness.Now the one who supplies seed to the sower supplies bread for eating, and fills out your sown seed, and makes grow the fruits of your alignment.THE THREAD
And Hiram sent to Solomon, saying, I have heard the words you sent to me, and I will do all your desire in the trees of cedar and in the trees of fir.Here Hiram promises to do all Solomon’s חֶפְץ (chephets), “desire”; in verse 10, that same desire has become cedar and fir actually given. The shared root connects the request to its material fulfillment.
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