What Does 1 Kings 6:21 Mean in the King James?
So Solomon overlaid the house within with pure gold: and he made a partition by the chains of gold before the oracle; and he overlaid it with gold.
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 gold marks the threshold before the innermost place as part of its preciousness: a boundary can guard value without denying it.
THE MEANING
Your inward life has a center whose value does not depend on being fully exposed. This verse holds preciousness and boundary together: the place within is covered in gold, and a marked threshold stands before it.
THE ROOT
וַיַּעֲבֵר
wayyaʿăvēr
GROWS FROM
עבר
ʿ-b-r
To pass over or cross; in this verb form, to cause to pass.
The verb rendered “made a partition” comes from עבר, whose basic motion is passing across. That keeps a crossing quality audible in the threshold: the chains mark a line before the inner chamber and distinguish what lies beyond it.
ALSO GROWS
ʿāvar: To pass over or cross.
עָבַר
This is the root verb behind the form translated “made a partition,” bringing the sense of crossing into the boundary before the oracle.
maʿāvar: A crossing or passage.
מַעֲבָר
This noun from the same root shows how עבר can name the passage across a boundary, illuminating the threshold formed by the chains.
ʿēver: The other side; beyond.
עֵבֶר
The root can name what lies across the line, echoing the inner place set apart beyond the partition.
THE PATTERN
Scripture marks the innermost holy place with a boundary that distinguishes it, and also depicts that boundary opening.
And thou shalt hang up the vail under the taches, that thou mayest bring in thither within the vail the ark of the testimony: and the vail shall divide unto you between the holy place and the most holy.And after the second veil, the tabernacle which is called the Holiest of all;And, behold, the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom; and the earth did quake, and the rocks rent;THE THREAD
And Abram passed through the land unto the place of Sichem, unto the plain of Moreh. And the Canaanite was then in the land.The verb rendered “made a partition” comes from עבר, the same root translated “passed through” here. One root holds both crossing a land and marking the line before an inner chamber.
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