What Does 1 Kings 6:1 Mean in the King James?
And it came to pass in the four hundred and eightieth year after the children of Israel were come out of the land of Egypt, in the fourth year of Solomon’s reign over Israel, in the month Zif, which is the second month, that he began to build the house of the LORD.
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 house of the LORD begins with a people who have come out; its timeline still counts from their departure.
THE MEANING
A place for God’s presence takes shape inside a long movement out of constriction: the house’s beginning is measured from the people’s coming out. Your leaving and your capacity to make room for wholeness belong to one unfolding story.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
It undoes the belief that leaving a constricted place no longer matters once building begins: the house’s beginning is still measured from that departure.
THE ROOT
וַיִּבֶן
wayyiven
GROWS FROM
בנה
bānāh
Build, build up.
The verb וַיִּבֶן (wayyiven, “he built”) comes from בנה (bānāh, “build”), a root that can also speak of being built up through children. In Genesis 16:2, the KJV’s “obtain children” renders a phrase using this same root, joining the making of a dwelling with the making of a lineage.
ALSO GROWS
bānāh: To build or build up.
בָּנָה
This is the root verb itself, naming the action that brings the house into being.
mivneh: Structure or form.
מִבְנֶה
This derivative names what the act of building gives shape to.
bēn: Son or child.
בֵּן
It shares the ב־נ consonantal family; the connection with בנה becomes vivid in Genesis 16:2, where gaining children is expressed as being built up.
לְצֵאת
letset
GROWS FROM
יצא
yāṣāʾ
Go out, emerge, come forth.
“come out” in this verse is letset. The verse dates the house from the people’s לְצֵאת (letset, “going out”). Their emergence is not a detail left behind: it remains the measure from which the building’s moment is known.
ALSO GROWS
yāṣāʾ: Go out or come forth.
יָצָא
This is the root verb behind the people’s departure from Egypt.
yetsi’ah: Going out or departure.
יְצִיאָה
This noun preserves the movement named in the verse as the starting point of the timeline.
motsa: Exit, outlet, or source.
מוֹצָא
It names a way out, echoing the departure that remains beneath the house’s chronology.
THE PATTERN
A dwelling for divine presence takes shape downstream of emergence, making departure part of its foundation.
And it came to pass at the end of the four hundred and thirty years, even the selfsame day it came to pass, that all the hosts of the LORD went out from the land of Egypt.And let them make me a sanctuary; that I may dwell among them.Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?THE THREAD
And Sarai said unto Abram, Behold now, the LORD hath restrained me from bearing: I pray thee, go in unto my maid; it may be that I may obtain children by her. And Abram hearkened to the voice of Sarai.Genesis uses the root בנה (bānāh, “build”) in אִבָּנֶה (’ibbāneh, “I may be built”) where the KJV says “obtain children.” The same root can name the making of a dwelling and the building up of a lineage.
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