What Does 1 Kings 13:13 Mean in the King James?
And he said unto his sons, Saddle me the ass. So they saddled him the ass: and he rode thereon,
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 verb translated “saddle” also means to bind or wrap, the same root can describe binding up a wound.
THE MEANING
The verse holds readiness and movement together: the ass is secured to carry a rider, and then the rider goes. The verb translated “saddle” also carries the sense “bind” or “wrap,” making the preparation a physical act of securing something against a body.
THE ROOT
חִבְשׁוּ
ḥivšū
GROWS FROM
חבש
ḥ-b-š
To bind or wrap; also to saddle an animal or bind up a wound.
English “saddle” points to the equipment, while this verb names the act of fastening something onto a body. The same root can describe binding up a wound, joining preparation for carrying with the physical act of tending.
ALSO GROWS
ḥōvēš: One who binds up; a healer.
חֹבֵשׁ
This form names a person by the work of binding, linking the fastening of a saddle with the binding up of an injury.
wəyaḥbəšēnū: And he will bind us up.
וְיַחְבְּשֵׁנוּ
This form from Hosea uses the same root for tending a wounded body, revealing the wider sense behind “saddle.”
THE PATTERN
Binding can ready an animal to carry a rider or secure a wound for healing.
And Abraham rose up early in the morning, and saddled his ass, and took two of his young men with him, and Isaac his son, and clave the wood for the burnt offering, and rose up, and went unto the place of which God had told him.Come, and let us return unto the LORD: for he hath torn, and he will heal us; he hath smitten, and he will bind us up.From the sole of the foot even unto the head there is no soundness in it; but wounds, and bruises, and putrifying sores: they have not been closed, neither bound up, neither mollified with ointment.THE THREAD
From the sole of the foot even unto the head there is no soundness in it; but wounds, and bruises, and putrifying sores: they have not been closed, neither bound up, neither mollified with ointment.The Hebrew root behind “saddle” here appears in Isaiah as “bound up” for an injured body. In one verse it fastens a saddle onto an ass; in the other it names the binding a wound has not received, holding fastening and care in the same word.
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