What Does 1 Kings 7:13 Mean?
And king Solomon sent and fetched Hiram out of Tyre.
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 king Solomon sent and fetched Hiram out of Tyre.THE KEY
Wholeness takes shape when the needed skill is released from one place and welcomed into another’s work.
THE MEANING
Your work can take shape through skill that enters from beyond your own hands. The verse holds sending and receiving together: Hiram is brought from one place into another’s work. Solomon’s name carries the idea of wholeness, and the scene shows wholeness gathering what it needs through another person’s capacity.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
The lie that what you are building must come only from the skills already in your own hands.
THE ROOT
וַיִּשְׁלַח
wayyishlaḥ
GROWS FROM
שלח
sh-l-ḥ
send forth, release, let go
“sent” in this verse is wayyishlaḥ. The Hebrew verb carries both sending and release: something leaves one place and moves toward a purpose. Paired with “fetched,” it makes the action a movement of both release and receiving, Hiram’s skill enters the work from beyond it.
ALSO GROWS
shaliach: emissary, one sent on another’s behalf
שָׁלִיחַ
The sent person carries the work across the distance between sender and destination.
Shiloach: the “sent” waters of Shiloah or Siloam
שִׁלֹחַ
The name links sending with water that reaches a person; in John 9:7, washing in Siloam accompanies the restoration of sight.
וַיִּקָּח
wayyiqqaḥ
GROWS FROM
לקח
l-q-ḥ
take, receive, bring into one’s possession
“fetched” in this verse is wayyiqqaḥ. The verb makes the arrival concrete: Hiram is taken from Tyre and received into the king’s work. This root also forms a word for instruction, so what is received can include knowledge and skill, not only a person’s presence.
ALSO GROWS
leqaḥ: instruction, teaching
לֶקַח
The root connects taking in with receiving instruction; Hiram brings skill into the work.
lāqūaḥ: taken, received
לָקוּחַ
Hiram is the one brought from elsewhere and received into the work underway.
שְׁלֹמֹה
Shelomoh
GROWS FROM
שלם
sh-l-m
be whole, complete
Solomon’s name carries the root of wholeness, שָׁלוֹם (shalom). Here, wholeness is pictured as gathering another person’s capacity into the work rather than holding every skill within itself.
ALSO GROWS
shalom: wholeness
שָׁלוֹם
It gives the name Solomon its connection to completeness and frames the scene as work gathering what it needs.
shalem: whole, complete
שָׁלֵם
The related word shows wholeness as something made complete, fitting a work that receives an additional skill.
THE PATTERN
Work moves forward when people are sent into the place where their skill is needed.
Now go, and I will send you to Pharaoh, that you may bring my people, the children of Israel, out of Egypt.And I heard the voice of the Lord saying, Whom shall I send, and who will go for us? Then I said, Here I am; send me.Then Jesus said to them again, Wholeness be with you. As the Father has sent me, so I send you.THE THREAD
And now send me a skilled man to work in gold, and in silver, and in bronze, and in iron, and in purple, and in blue, and in crimson, and skilled to devise engravings with the skilled ones who are with me in Judah and in Jerusalem, whom David my father set in place.“Send” here comes from the same Hebrew root, שלח (sh-l-ḥ), as “sent” in the current verse. Together, the verses show the work reaching beyond its own place for the skill it needs.
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