What Does 1 Kings 10:22 Mean in the King James?
For the king had at sea a navy of Tharshish with the navy of Hiram: once in three years came the navy of Tharshish, bringing gold, and silver, ivory, and apes, and peacocks.
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
Even the king’s riches reach him as cargo carried across the sea.
THE MEANING
Gold, silver, ivory, and animals arrive by ship in a cycle that takes three years. The king’s abundance depends on ships, a partner, and what can be carried across distance.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
This undoes the idea that royal abundance is created alone or is always at hand: here it arrives through another fleet and a long wait.
THE ROOT
נֹשְׂאֵת
nōśeʾt
GROWS FROM
נָשָׂא
To lift, carry, or bear.
The Hebrew verb behind “bringing” is נָשָׂא (nasaʾ), to carry or bear. Its branches include מַשָּׂא (massaʾ), a load or burden, so the verse presents royal abundance as weight borne across distance; נָשִׂיא (nasiʾ), a leader or prince, is also traditionally linked to the sense of one raised up.
ALSO GROWS
massaʾ: Load or burden.
מַשָּׂא
The fleet’s cargo is a load borne over the sea; the same root also names what someone carries as a burden.
nasiʾ: Leader or prince; traditionally connected with “one raised up.”
נָשִׂיא
This branch brings the root’s sense of lifting into the royal setting of the verse.
THE PATTERN
A ruler’s reach is pictured through what distant hands carry toward the center of power.
And they brought every man his present, vessels of silver, and vessels of gold, and garments, and armour, and spices, horses, and mules, a rate year by year.The kings of Tarshish and of the isles shall bring presents: the kings of Sheba and Seba shall offer gifts.And the nations of them which are saved shall walk in the light of it: and the kings of the earth do bring their glory and honour into it.THE THREAD
Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted.The Hebrew verb נָשָׂא (nasaʾ), “carry” or “bear,” describes the ships bringing wealth here and the figure bearing griefs in Isaiah. One root holds both the cargo transported across distance and the human weight borne.
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