What Does 1 Chronicles 4:39 Mean in the King James?
And they went to the entrance of Gedor, even unto the east side of the valley, to seek pasture for their flocks.
The analysis reads the King James wording.
King James Version The King James Version, first published in 1611. Selah Verse shows the standard text.
THE KEY
“Pasture” grows from the same Hebrew root as “feed” and “shepherd,” joining the sought-for place to the care that sustains the flock.
THE MEANING
Your movement toward what sustains you has purpose even while the pasture is still being sought. The verse names need plainly, while keeping the search oriented toward nourishment.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
It loosens the belief that still searching means being directionless: this search has a destination, pasture for the flock.
THE ROOT
מִרְעֶה
mir'eh
GROWS FROM
רעה
To feed, tend, or shepherd.
The pasture sought here is more than a location: its word grows from the same root as feeding and shepherding. Hebrew holds the place of nourishment together with the act of tending that makes nourishment possible.
ALSO GROWS
ra'ah: To feed, tend, or shepherd.
רָעָה
The flock’s search for pasture is tied to the action of feeding and care.
ro'eh: Shepherd; one who tends a flock.
רֹעֶה
The same root names both the flock’s sustenance and the one who tends it.
THE PATTERN
The search for sustenance is purposeful movement toward a place where life can feed.
He maketh me to lie down in green pastures: he leadeth me beside the still waters.I will feed them in a good pasture, and upon the high mountains of Israel shall their fold be: there shall they lie in a good fold, and in a fat pasture shall they feed upon the mountains of Israel.I am the door: by me if any man enter in, he shall be saved, and shall go in and out, and find pasture.THE THREAD
A Psalm of David. The LORD is my shepherd; I shall not want.The Hebrew word for “shepherd” (רֹעֶה, ro’eh) shares the root רעה with “pasture” (מִרְעֶה, mir’eh) here. The search for food and the one who tends the flock belong to one word-family: feeding and care are joined at the root.
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