What Does 1 Kings 6:10 Mean in the King James?

And then he built chambers against all the house, five cubits high: and they rested on the house with timber of cedar.

1 Kings 6:10 · KJV

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 cedar is the grasp that binds the surrounding chambers to the whole house.

THE MEANING

The chambers rise beside the house, and cedar holds them in relation to it. The rooms around the dwelling are connected to the whole, not separate from it.

THE ROOT

וַיֶּאֱחֹז

vayye'echoz

GROWS FROM

אחז

ʾāḥaz

To grasp, take hold, or hold fast.

“rested” in this verse is vayye'echoz. The Hebrew verb carries the sense of grasping or fastening: cedar holds the house in relation to the chambers around it. The same root can describe something caught and held fast, or a possession, showing how holding creates connection and belonging.

ALSO GROWS

ne'echaz: Caught or held fast.

נֶאֱחַז

This form shows the root as a firm hold, like the cedar’s binding of the surrounding structure.

achuzzah: Possession, holding, or estate.

אֲחֻזָּה

Here the root’s sense of holding extends to something held as one’s own, illuminating how the chambers belong to the house they are joined to.

THE PATTERN

What is held fast remains connected to the larger whole that sustains it.

And while he lingered, the men laid hold upon his hand, and upon the hand of his wife, and upon the hand of his two daughters; the LORD being merciful unto him: and they brought him forth, and set him without the city.

Genesis 19:16 · KJVThe same root describes hands taking hold of a family and keeping them connected as they are brought out.

Nevertheless I am continually with thee: thou hast holden me by my right hand.

Psalm 73:23 · KJVThe psalm uses the same root for a hand holding a person within a lasting bond.

Who being the brightness of his glory, and the express image of his person, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high;

Hebrews 1:3 · KJVThe image widens from cedar holding a house to all things being upheld by a sustaining word.

THE THREAD

Even there shall thy hand lead me, and thy right hand shall hold me.

Psalm 139:10 · KJV

The Hebrew verb translated “hold me” comes from the same root, ⁨אחז⁩ (ʾāḥaz), as the verb describing cedar holding the house. The hand holds a person in connection just as the cedar holds the chambers to the house.

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