What Does 1 Kings 16:14 Mean in the King James?
Now the rest of the acts of Elah, and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?
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 calls Elah’s “acts” דִּבְרֵי (divrei, words or matters), then names all that he עָשָׂה (asah, did or made), gathering a life’s words and deeds into one record.
THE MEANING
Your life becomes legible through the matters you carry and the actions you bring into being, which can be gathered into an account. Elah’s name, אֵלָה (ʾēlāh, terebinth), bears a tree’s image; the verse places beside it the written record of what he did.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
The belief that an action vanishes when its moment ends; the verse presents deeds as recordable and still part of a life’s account.
THE ROOT
דִּבְרֵי
divrei
GROWS FROM
ד־ב־ר
d-b-r
To speak; a word, matter, or affair.
The word rendered “acts” also carries the sense of words and matters. Beside “all that he did,” it gathers what can be told about a life together with what that life does.
ALSO GROWS
davar: Word, matter, or thing.
דָּבָר
This noun from the same root keeps the sense of “matters” audible beneath the English “acts.”
dibber: Spoke.
דִּבֶּר
The verb branch preserves speech within the same root, linking a person’s words with the matters recorded about them.
עָשָׂה
asah
GROWS FROM
ע־שׂ־ה
ʿ-ś-h
To do or make.
The verb for what Elah “did” also means “made.” His deeds are the things his life brings into being, joining this account to the language of creation.
ALSO GROWS
maʿaseh: Work or deed.
מַעֲשֶׂה
This noun from the same root names an action as a work made or carried out.
ʿoseh: One who does or makes.
עֹשֶׂה
This participle names the doer through the making, keeping action tied to what a person brings into being.
THE PATTERN
A life’s deeds become part of the account by which that life is known.
For God shall bring every work into judgment, with every secret thing, whether it be good, or whether it be evil.For nothing is secret, that shall not be made manifest; neither any thing hid, that shall not be known and come abroad.And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the books were opened: and another book was opened, which is the book of life: and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works.THE THREAD
And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day.Both verses use עָשָׂה (asah, to do or make): Genesis says what God had made, and Kings says what Elah did. The shared root lets the deeds in this verse carry the concrete sense of what a life has made.
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