What Does 1 Kings 6:36 Mean?
And he built the inner court with three rows of hewn stone, and a row of cedar beams.
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 he built the inner court with three rows of hewed stone, and a row of cedar beams.THE KEY
The inner court takes shape through subtraction: the stone is cut before it can fit into its ordered place.
THE MEANING
The inner court has a tangible form: three rows of hewn stone and one row of cedar beams. Each material is shaped and set in an ordered layer. The verse shows sacred space taking shape through deliberate craft.
THE ROOT
גָּזִית
gāzît
GROWS FROM
גזז
To cut off or shear; by extension, to hew.
The word for hewn stone grows from a root also used for shearing sheep. The court is built from stone that has undergone removal: what is cut away helps the remaining material fit its place.
ALSO GROWS
gāzaz: To cut off or shear.
גָּזַז
The verb names the root action behind hewing: material is removed before the stone takes its place.
gez: Fleece, what is shorn from a sheep.
גֵּז
This branch shows the root at work beyond stone: cutting away produces something newly shaped for its use.
gāzît: Hewn or dressed stone.
גָּזִית
This is the court’s building material, shaped by cutting before it is laid in rows.
THE PATTERN
A dwelling set apart takes shape when distinct materials are fitted into an ordered whole.
And the great court round about was with three rows of hewn stones, and a row of cedar beams, both for the inner court of the house of the LORD, and for the porch of the house.With three rows of great stones and a row of new timber, and let the outgoings be given out of the king's house.You also, as living stones, are built up into a house of breath, a set-apart priesthood, to carry up sacrifices of breath, well received by God through Jesus, the Anointed One.THE THREAD
And the king commanded, and they brought great stones, heavy stones, and hewn stones, to lay the foundation of the house.The same Hebrew word, גָּזִית (gāzît), names the hewn stones brought for the house’s foundation. The court and the foundation share the language of stone shaped by cutting before it is laid in place.
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