What Does 1 Kings 6:19 Mean in the King James?
And the oracle he prepared in the house within, to set there the ark of the covenant 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 room called “oracle” echoes the Hebrew root for “word,” placing the covenant at the house’s innermost place of speech.
THE MEANING
The verse pictures your innermost life as a place where covenant is kept. The ark rests in the deepest room of the house, a place whose name is associated with speech and oracle.
THE ROOT
דְּבִיר
dĕbîr
GROWS FROM
דבר
D-B-R
To speak or declare; the root also forms words for speech and utterance.
The Hebrew word translated “oracle” is debir, the name of the innermost chamber, and its consonants echo dabar, “word” or “speech.” English separates the room from the word, while Hebrew lets the room’s name suggest a place where speech is heard; here the ark of the covenant is set at that center.
ALSO GROWS
dāḇār: Word, speech, or matter
דָּבָר
It shares the D-B-R root with debir, linking the chamber’s name with the word or utterance associated with it.
dibbēr: Spoke or declared
דִּבֵּר
This verbal form makes the root’s speaking sense clear; Exodus 25:22 uses it when God says, “I will commune with thee” above the ark.
THE PATTERN
The dwelling that holds what is set apart at its center becomes a place of meeting and speech.
And there I will meet with thee, and I will commune with thee from above the mercy seat, from between the two cherubims which are upon the ark of the testimony, of all things which I will give thee in commandment unto the children of Israel.For in the time of trouble he shall hide me in his pavilion: in the secret of his tabernacle shall he hide me; he shall set me up upon a rock.And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.THE THREAD
And there I will meet with thee, and I will commune with thee from above the mercy seat, from between the two cherubims which are upon the ark of the testimony, of all things which I will give thee in commandment unto the children of Israel.The word behind “oracle,” debir, echoes the D-B-R root of dabar, “word,” and dibbēr, “speak.” Exodus makes that echo audible: God meets and speaks from above the ark that 1 Kings places in the debir, the innermost chamber.
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