What Does 1 Kings 13:27 Mean in the King James?
And he spake to his sons, saying, Saddle me the ass. And they saddled him.
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 Hebrew verb for saddling a donkey also means binding a wound, so the same act of securing can prepare a bearer or support what is injured.
THE MEANING
A need takes shape through speech and is answered by hands: the donkey is secured for its rider. The verse holds the small but real transition from intention to readiness.
THE ROOT
חִבְשׁוּ
ḥivshu
GROWS FROM
חבש
To bind, fasten, or wrap; depending on what is being bound, to saddle an animal or bind a wound.
Here, חבש (ḥābash, to bind or fasten) makes the saddle an act of securing the donkey so it can bear its rider. The same root is used for binding wounds, joining readiness to carry with the support given to what is injured.
ALSO GROWS
ḥivshu: Saddle; fasten a riding animal.
חִבְשׁוּ
This is the action that readies the donkey to bear its rider.
ḥābash: Bind or bandage a wound.
חָבַשׁ
Isaiah 1:6 and Ezekiel 34:4 use this root for binding wounds, revealing another kind of securing: support for what is injured.
THE PATTERN
Binding can ready a bearer for movement or bind and support what is wounded.
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.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 diseased have ye not strengthened, neither have ye healed that which was sick, neither have ye bound up that which was broken, neither have ye brought again that which was driven away, neither have ye sought that which was lost; but with force and with cruelty have ye ruled them.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 verb חבש (ḥābash, to bind or fasten) used for saddling the donkey also describes binding a wound in Isaiah. The shared root links preparing something to bear weight with supporting what has been injured.
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