What Does 1 Kings 6:22 Mean?
And the whole house he sheathed with gold, until he had finished all the house; also the whole altar that was by the innermost room he sheathed with gold.
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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 whole house he overlaid with gold, until he had finished all the house: also the whole altar that was by the oracle he overlaid with gold.THE KEY
The same gold covers the whole house and the altar beside the inner oracle, joining the entire structure and its sacred center under one covering.
THE MEANING
The verse shows completion reaching the whole house, including the altar beside the inner oracle. The larger space and its innermost place remain under the same covering.
THE ROOT
תֹּם
tom
GROWS FROM
תמם
To be complete or whole; to come to completion.
“finished” in this verse is tom. The Hebrew phrase says “until the completion of all the house,” placing completion beside the repeated idea of the whole. The altar is expressly included, so the work reaches the entire space it encompasses.
ALSO GROWS
tamim: Whole, complete, sound.
תָּמִים
The same root describes a state of wholeness, revealing the link between finishing the house and its completeness.
tamam: To become complete or come to an end.
תָּמַם
This verb names the movement toward completion that the verse describes as the whole house is finished.
THE PATTERN
A work reaches completion when its full scope is brought to completion.
Thus all the work of the dwelling, the tent of meeting, was finished. And the children of Israel did according to all that the LORD commanded Moses, so they did.The LORD finishes what concerns me; your faithful love, O LORD, endures for the ages; do not let the works of your hands drop.Being confident of this very thing, that the one who began a good work in you will finish it until the day of Jesus the Anointed One.THE THREAD
These are the births of Noah. Noah was an aligned man, and whole in his generations, and Noah walked with God.The word translated “finished” here is תֹּם (tom), “completion,” from תמם (tamam), “to become whole or complete”; Noah is called תָּמִים (tamim), “whole, complete,” in Genesis. The shared root links the temple’s completion with Noah’s wholeness.
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