What Does 1 Kings 21:1 Mean in the King James?

And it came to pass after these things, that Naboth the Jezreelite had a vineyard, which was in Jezreel, hard by the palace of Ahab king of Samaria.

1 Kings 21:1 · KJV

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THE KEY

The vineyard stands beside the king’s palace, yet its place-name says its life comes from God’s sowing, not royal nearness.

THE MEANING

Something you cultivate can stand beside power without taking its identity from it. Jezreel means “God sows,” placing a deeper source of growth beside the palace in the verse.

WHAT THIS UNDOES

Whatever stands near power belongs to power or depends on power for its life.

THE ROOT

יִזְרְעֶאל

Yizreʿel

GROWS FROM

זרע

To sow or scatter seed.

Jezreel carries the sense “God sows,” tying the place to seed and growth. Naboth’s vineyard is beside Ahab’s palace, but its name points to a source deeper than the ruler next door.

ALSO GROWS

zāraʿ: To sow or scatter seed.

זָרַע

This is the verb echoed in Jezreel’s name; it makes the place’s name an image of sowing.

zeraʿ: Seed; offspring or descendants.

זֶרַע

This branch shows what sowing carries forward: the potential for fruit and continuation.

THE PATTERN

Fruitful ground may stand next to power while its source and claim remain beyond that power.

Then Isaac sowed in that land, and received in the same year an hundredfold: and the LORD blessed him.

Genesis 26:12 · KJVThe land yields abundantly after sowing, and the verse names the LORD’s blessing as part of that growth.

The land shall not be sold for ever: for the land is mine; for ye are strangers and sojourners with me.

Leviticus 25:23 · KJVThe land’s ultimate claim rests beyond any person who possesses or works it.

Hear another parable: There was a certain householder, which planted a vineyard, and hedged it round about, and digged a winepress in it, and built a tower, and let it out to husbandmen, and went into a far country:

Matthew 21:33 · KJVThe vineyard remains connected to the one who planted it, even while others tend it.

THE THREAD

Then Isaac sowed in that land, and received in the same year an hundredfold: and the LORD blessed him.

Genesis 26:12 · KJV

Jezreel carries the root ⁨זרע⁩, “to sow”; the same root appears in “sowed” here. Genesis makes visible what the place-name compresses: sowing and land belong together in the emergence of fruit.

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