What Does 1 Kings 13:29 Mean in the King James?
And the prophet took up the carcase of the man of God, and laid it upon the ass, and brought it back: and the old prophet came to the city, to mourn and to bury 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
Grief begins by carrying what it cannot restore.
THE MEANING
The prophet lifts the dead man’s body, carries him back, and gives grief a shape through mourning and burial. The body is not left where death found it; it is borne into care by someone still living.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
It undoes the belief that, once someone is dead, nothing remains to be done: the body still receives care, mourning, and burial.
THE ROOT
וַיִּשָּׂא
vayyissa from nāśāʾ
GROWS FROM
נשא
Lift, carry, bear.
“took up” in this verse is vayyissa from nāśāʾ. Here the verb holds two actions together: the prophet moves the body and bears its weight. From the same root come מַשָּׂא (massa, burden or prophetic utterance) and נָשָׂא קוֹל (nasa qol, lift the voice or cry out), linking bodily weight, a borne message, and an outcry in one family of images.
ALSO GROWS
massa: Burden; also a prophetic utterance.
מַשָּׂא
The body is a literal weight the prophet carries; the same root names a burden that is borne as a message.
nasa qol: Lift the voice; cry out.
נָשָׂא קוֹל
The root can describe lifting a voice as well as a body, bringing the physical act of carrying close to the outcry of grief.
THE PATTERN
Grief gives the dead a bodily place through carrying, mourning, and burial.
And Sarah died in Kirjath-arba; the same is Hebron in the land of Canaan: and Abraham came to mourn for Sarah, and to weep for her.And devout men carried Stephen to his burial, and made great lamentation over him.THE THREAD
Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted.Isaiah uses the same root, נשא (nāśāʾ, to lift, carry, bear), for “borne.” Here the prophet carries a body; there, grief itself is borne, joining the weight of the dead with the weight of sorrow.
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