What Does 1 Kings 4:11 Mean in the King James?
The son of Abinadab, in all the region of Dor; which had Taphath the daughter of Solomon to wife:
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 verse puts the map and the household in one frame: Dor’s administration is named alongside Solomon’s daughter’s marriage.
THE MEANING
Your public world and intimate ties belong on the same map: the person responsible for Dor stands beside a marriage into Solomon’s household. The verse presents order as carried through both place and relationship. What looks like a bare roster shows that a role exists within a web of people.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
The lie this verse dissolves is that public responsibility can be separated from intimate relationships; here the district and the marriage share a single line.
THE ROOT
שְׁלֹמֹה
Shelomoh
GROWS FROM
שלם
To be whole or complete.
“Solomon” in this verse is Shelomoh. Shelomoh carries the root שלם, the same seed behind shalom, “wholeness,” and shalem, “whole.” Even this roster line places a district and a marriage beside a name that carries the idea of wholeness.
ALSO GROWS
shalom: Wholeness, peace.
שָׁלוֹם
It reveals the root sense carried in Solomon’s name: wholeness is woven into the verse’s naming of household and district.
shalem: Whole, complete.
שָׁלֵם
This branch makes the root’s sense of completeness audible beneath the name Solomon.
THE PATTERN
A whole holds together through distinct people whose roles remain joined to one another.
And Solomon had twelve officers over all Israel, which provided victuals for the king and his household: each man his month in a year made provision.So we, being many, are one body in Christ, and every one members one of another.THE THREAD
Her ways are ways of pleasantness, and all her paths are peace.Solomon’s name, Shelomoh, carries the same שׁלם seed that appears in shalom, “wholeness, peace.” Proverbs 3:17 brings that root into the open: peace marks a way shaped toward wholeness.
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