What Does Job 42:14 Mean?
And he called the name of the first, Jemima, and the name of the second, Kezia, and the name of the third, Kerenhappuch.
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King James wording
King James Version
And he called the name of the first, Jemima; and the name of the second, Kezia; and the name of the third, Keren-happuch.THE KEY
These names make restoration perceptible: one carries the fragrance of cassia, and another the radiance of adornment.
THE MEANING
In you, restoration is more than survival: it takes names that make beauty perceptible. Jemimah (יְמִימָה, yĕmîmāh) is often glossed “dove,” though its derivation is uncertain; Kezia means cassia, and Keren-happuch means a horn of eye-paint.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
The verse undoes the belief that devastation can name a life only by what it has lost: here, the names speak of fragrance and adornment.
THE ROOT
קֶרֶן הַפּוּךְ
qeren happûkh
GROWS FROM
ק־ר־ן
q-r-n
To project like a horn or send out rays.
“Kerenhappuch” in this verse is qeren happûkh. Keren-happuch means a horn of eye-paint: the horn is the vessel holding adornment. The root also carries the image of rays projecting outward, bringing adornment and radiance together in the name.
ALSO GROWS
qeren: Horn; a projecting point or ray.
קֶרֶן
The horn in the name is a vessel for eye-paint, making restored beauty something visible.
qāran: To shine or emit rays.
קָרַן
This related form carries the sense of radiance, as when Moses’ face shines in Exodus 34:29.
קְצִיעָה
qĕṣîʿāh
GROWS FROM
ק־צ־ע
q-ts-ʿ
To cut or strip off; the name is commonly connected with this root.
Kezia is cassia, an aromatic spice. The word is commonly linked to stripping or cutting: what is taken from the plant becomes fragrance, a small image of beauty uncovered through removal.
ALSO GROWS
qĕṣîʿāh: Cassia, an aromatic spice.
קְצִיעָה
A restored name carries a scent, turning beauty into something the senses can recognize.
qāṣaʿ: To cut or strip off.
קָצַע
The likely link between the verb and the spice holds removal and fragrance in one word-family.
THE PATTERN
What is restored becomes perceptible as beauty, radiance, or fragrance.
To set for those who mourn in Zion, to give them a headdress in place of ash, the oil of leaping for mourning, the garment of praise in place of a dimmed breath; that they might be called oaks of alignment, the planting of the LORD, that he might be adorned.All your garments smell of myrrh and aloes and cassia. From ivory palaces they gladden you.But thanks be to God, who always leads us in triumph in the Anointed One, and makes the scent of his knowing visible through us in every place.THE THREAD
All your garments smell of myrrh and aloes and cassia. From ivory palaces they gladden you.Kezia is named with the Hebrew word for cassia, the same word Psalm 45:8 places among fragrant garments. The shared word lets the name in Job open into a scent: restored beauty is something you can perceive.
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