What Does 1 Kings 16:27 Mean in the King James?
Now the rest of the acts of Omri which he did, and his might that he shewed, 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 repeats עָשָׂה (asah, to do) for both Omri’s acts and his might: his power, too, is named as something he did.
THE MEANING
The verse holds a ruler’s actions and his prevailing force together in a written record. What Omri does remains legible after his reign has passed.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
A ruler’s actions do not disappear when the ruler is gone; the verse presents them as recorded.
THE ROOT
גְּבוּרָה
gevurah
GROWS FROM
גבר
To prevail; to be strong.
The Hebrew word for might grows from a root about prevailing. The same root can describe force that overcomes, without saying that the force is good or just.
ALSO GROWS
gabar: Prevail, grow strong.
גָּבַר
This verb appears for the waters that prevailed in the flood, showing that the root names force overcoming resistance.
gibbor: A mighty one; a warrior.
גִּבּוֹר
The word for a mighty person grows from the same root as prevailing force.
מַעֲשֶׂה
ma'aseh
GROWS FROM
עשה
To do; to make.
The Hebrew says of Omri’s acts, “which he did,” then uses the same verb again for his might, “which he did.” The wording binds deeds and displayed power together as things he performed.
ALSO GROWS
asah: Do, make, perform.
עָשָׂה
This is the verb repeated for both Omri’s acts and his might.
ma'aseh: Deed, work, action.
מַעֲשֶׂה
The noun for an act comes from the same seed as the verb “to do,” tying the record to what Omri carried out.
סֵפֶר דִּבְרֵי הַיָּמִים
sefer divrei hayamim
GROWS FROM
דבר
Word, speech, matter, or thing.
“chronicles” in this verse is sefer divrei hayamim. The Hebrew phrase is literally a “book of the words” or “matters of the days.” The record gathers what happened into words that remain readable across time.
ALSO GROWS
davar: Word, matter, thing.
דָּבָר
The record is made of matters put into words.
dibber: Speak; utter words.
דִּבֵּר
This verbal branch shows how the root connects the account to the telling of events.
THE PATTERN
What is done can outlast its moment because it remains in a record.
The rest of all the acts of Asa, and all his might, and all that he did, and the cities which he built, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah? Nevertheless in the time of his old age he was diseased in his feet.For whatsoever things were written aforetime were written for our learning, that we through patience and comfort of the scriptures might have hope.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 the waters prevailed, and were increased greatly upon the earth; and the ark went upon the face of the waters.Genesis uses גָּבַר (gabar, to prevail) for the waters that overtake the earth. That makes Omri’s might a word about prevailing force itself; the root names power without declaring it righteous.
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