What Does 1 Kings 10:2 Mean in the King James?
And she came to Jerusalem with a very great train, with camels that bare spices, and very much gold, and precious stones: and when she was come to Solomon, she communed with him of all that was in her heart.
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
The treasure she brings is visible, but the deepest exchange is the whole inner life becoming speech.
THE MEANING
Your visible abundance and your inner life are not the same thing: the spices, gold, and precious stones surround a more intimate exchange, everything in the heart coming into speech. Jerusalem (יְרוּשָׁלַיִם, Yerushalayim, the two wholenesses) and Solomon (שְׁלֹמֹה, Shelomoh, a name linked with wholeness) frame that inward disclosure with the language of wholeness.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
The belief that visible wealth is all there is to bring into an encounter; the verse places the whole heart at its center.
THE ROOT
וַתְּדַבֵּר
vattedabber
GROWS FROM
דבר
Speak, say.
The Hebrew verb translated communed is וַתְּדַבֵּר (vattedabber, she spoke), from דבר, the same seed behind דָּבָר (davar, word or matter). The heart’s contents do not remain unnamed interior here; they become spoken words, so the same language carries both inner matter and outward speech.
ALSO GROWS
davar: Word, matter, or thing.
דָּבָר
The contents of her heart become matter spoken aloud.
dibber: He spoke.
דִּבֵּר
This verb shares the root of the action in the verse: she speaks what is within her.
לְבָבָהּ
levavah
GROWS FROM
לבב
The heart or inward person, including thought and intention.
The phrase is לְבָבָהּ (levavah, her heart), naming the inward person: thought, intention, and discernment alongside feeling. The verse says all that is there, presenting the heart as a whole interior that enters conversation.
ALSO GROWS
lev: Heart; the inner person.
לֵב
It shows that heart-language can include thought and intention, not only emotion.
levav: Heart; inward thought or intent.
לֵבָב
The verse’s phrase makes her whole inward life part of what she speaks.
שְׁלֹמֹה
Shelomoh
GROWS FROM
שלם
Whole, complete, sound.
Solomon’s Hebrew name is שְׁלֹמֹה (Shelomoh, Solomon), from the שלם family of wholeness, completion, and soundness. The verse places this full heart-speech in Jerusalem, יְרוּשָׁלַיִם (Yerushalayim, the two wholenesses), so the route and the king carry the same wholeness resonance.
ALSO GROWS
shalom: Wholeness, well-being, peace.
שָׁלוֹם
It gives the name Solomon its resonance of wholeness.
shalem: Whole, complete.
שָׁלֵם
It echoes the verse’s image of speaking everything held within the heart.
THE PATTERN
Visible offerings may frame an encounter, while the heart’s contents become its deeper substance when spoken.
And Hannah answered and said, No, my lord, I am a woman of a sorrowful spirit: I have drunk neither wine nor strong drink, but have poured out my soul before the LORD.Let the words of my mouth, and the meditation of my heart, be acceptable in thy sight, O LORD, my strength, and my redeemer.A good man out of the good treasure of his heart bringeth forth that which is good; and an evil man out of the evil treasure of his heart bringeth forth that which is evil: for of the abundance of the heart his mouth speaketh.THE THREAD
And before I had done speaking in mine heart, behold, Rebekah came forth with her pitcher on her shoulder; and she went down unto the well, and drew water: and I said unto her, Let me drink, I pray thee.Genesis uses the same root דבר (davar, word or speaking) alongside לב (lev, heart); the KJV phrase speaking in mine heart makes that connection visible. Here speech is directed inward, while in 1 Kings the heart’s contents are spoken to another.
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