What Does 1 Kings 6:20 Mean in the King James?
And the oracle in the forepart was twenty cubits in length, and twenty cubits in breadth, and twenty cubits in the height thereof: and he overlaid it with pure gold; and so covered the altar which was of cedar.
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 innermost room has equal length, breadth, and height, while gold covers the cedar altar without replacing it.
THE MEANING
Your innermost space is pictured as complete in every dimension: its length, breadth, and height are equal. Cedar remains beneath pure gold, so the covering does not erase what is at the center. The sacred center holds both its underlying grain and a luminous surface.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
The holy interior has to lose its underlying nature before it can be covered in radiance.
THE ROOT
דְּבִיר
dĕbîr
GROWS FROM
דבר
Speak, utter; word or speech.
The Hebrew debir names the innermost chamber and is commonly linked with dabar, “word” or “speech,” though that derivation is uncertain. The link lets the room carry the sense of a bounded center associated with speech, not only a place called an oracle.
ALSO GROWS
dābār: A word, utterance, or matter.
דָּבָר
This branch connects the chamber’s name with the word or matter that may be heard at its center.
dibbēr: To speak or utter.
דִּבֵּר
This verbal branch gives the inner room the possible sense of a speaking-place.
THE PATTERN
The dwelling place of the holy is rendered as complete, measured space.
And he made the most holy house, the length whereof was according to the breadth of the house, twenty cubits, and the breadth thereof twenty cubits: and he overlaid it with fine gold, amounting to six hundred talents.And the city lieth foursquare, and the length is as large as the breadth: and he measured the city with the reed, twelve thousand furlongs. The length and the breadth and the height of it are equal.THE THREAD
And the city lieth foursquare, and the length is as large as the breadth: and he measured the city with the reed, twelve thousand furlongs. The length and the breadth and the height of it are equal.Revelation gives the whole city the same length-breadth-height equality this verse gives the innermost room. What is a complete interior here becomes shared, inhabitable space there; the architecture carries the center outward.
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