What Does 1 Kings 5:18 Mean in the King James?
And Solomon’s builders and Hiram’s builders did hew them, and the stonesquarers: so they prepared timber and stones to build 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
A house begins taking shape before it is assembled, when its separate parts are made ready.
THE MEANING
A dwelling takes shape through timber and stone prepared and joined by many hands. Solomon’s name carries the sound of shalom, wholeness: the verse places this work under the image of separate parts becoming a whole. What stands now is held by preparation that may be unseen.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
The belief that wholeness appears fully formed gives way to a slower picture: distinct parts are prepared and joined before a dwelling takes shape.
THE ROOT
בֹּנֵי
bōnê
GROWS FROM
בנה
b-n-h
to build, establish
“builders / build” in this verse is bōnê. “Builders” and “to build” both grow from בנה (banah). The same word family is traditionally linked with בֵּן (ben, son), since a son continues a family: the verse’s construction language can carry the echo of a household extending through generations.
ALSO GROWS
binyan: building, structure
בִּנְיָן
The noun for a structure comes from the same root that names the work of building the house.
ben: son
בֵּן
Traditionally linked with banah through the idea of building a family, it carries the image of a household continuing beyond its present form.
שְׁלֹמֹה
Shelomoh
GROWS FROM
שלם
sh-l-m
to be whole or complete
Solomon’s Hebrew name shares its root with שָׁלוֹם (shalom), wholeness. As prepared materials come together to form a house, the name of its builder’s king echoes the movement from separate parts toward a whole.
ALSO GROWS
shalom: wholeness
שָׁלוֹם
The name’s root carries the idea of a whole, fitting the verse’s movement from separate materials to one dwelling.
shalem: whole, complete
שָׁלֵם
This branch names the completeness toward which prepared parts are brought together.
THE PATTERN
A dwelling takes form as prepared materials and shared work are fitted together.
Then wrought Bezaleel and Aholiab, and every wise hearted man, in whom the LORD put wisdom and understanding to know how to work all manner of work for the service of the sanctuary, according to all that the LORD had commanded.So built we the wall; and all the wall was joined together unto the half thereof: for the people had a mind to work.Ye also, as lively stones, are built up a spiritual house, an holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ.THE THREAD
And the rib, which the LORD God had taken from man, made he a woman, and brought her unto the man.The Hebrew verb translated “made” here is וַיִּבֶן (vayyiven), “he built,” from the same root בנה (banah) as “builders” and “build” in this verse. That shared root carries the language of construction from a house of stone and timber into the forming of living human life.
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