What Does 1 Kings 3:18 Mean in the King James?
And it came to pass the third day after that I was delivered, that this woman was delivered also: and we were together; there was no stranger with us in the house, save we two in the house.
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
Both births share one Hebrew root, but their shared beginning does not make the two lives interchangeable.
THE MEANING
You can stand inside an event no outsider witnessed. Two lives can share a room, a kind of beginning, and nearly the same timing, while the truth of each remains distinct.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
No outside witness does not mean no truth: the event remains known to the people who were there.
THE ROOT
יָלַד
yalad
GROWS FROM
ילד
To bear, beget, or bring forth.
“delivered” in this verse is yalad. The word carries the concrete act of bearing and bringing forth. The same root names both women’s births, linking their experience while leaving each child’s identity distinct.
ALSO GROWS
yeled: Child; the one brought forth.
יֶלֶד
The child is the visible life each birth brings into the house, shifting the root from the act to its outcome.
toledot: Generations, descendants, or an account of origins.
תּוֹלְדוֹת
Bearing opens into lineage, so a birth is both an event in a room and the start of a continuing story.
THE PATTERN
Birth brings what is hidden into the world, making life present while its story continues to unfold.
And when her days to be delivered were fulfilled, behold, there were twins in her womb.A woman when she is in travail hath sorrow, because her hour is come: but as soon as she is delivered of the child, she remembereth no more the anguish, for joy that a man is born into the world.THE THREAD
And when her days to be delivered were fulfilled, behold, there were twins in her womb.The same Hebrew birth root appears in Rebekah’s delivery, where two children arrive together. The parallel makes the shared fact of birth visible: lives can begin together without becoming interchangeable.
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