What Does 1 Kings 6:22 Mean in the King James?

And the whole house he overlaid with gold, until he had finished all the house: also the whole altar that was by the oracle he overlaid with gold.

1 Kings 6:22 · KJV

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King James Version The King James Version, first published in 1611. Selah Verse shows the standard text.

This verse in the Selah Decoded Version

THE KEY

The same gold covers the whole house and the altar beside the inner oracle, joining the entire structure and its sacred center under one covering.

THE MEANING

The verse shows completion reaching the whole house, including the altar beside the inner oracle. The larger space and its innermost place remain under the same covering.

THE ROOT

תֹּם

tom

GROWS FROM

תמם

To be complete or whole; to come to completion.

“finished” in this verse is tom. The Hebrew phrase says “until the completion of all the house,” placing completion beside the repeated idea of the whole. The altar is expressly included, so the work reaches the entire space it encompasses.

ALSO GROWS

tamim: Whole, complete, sound.

תָּמִים

The same root describes a state of wholeness, revealing the link between finishing the house and its completeness.

tamam: To become complete or come to an end.

תָּמַם

This verb names the movement toward completion that the verse describes as the whole house is finished.

THE PATTERN

A work reaches completion when its full scope is brought to completion.

Thus was all the work of the tabernacle of the tent of the congregation finished: and the children of Israel did according to all that the LORD commanded Moses, so did they.

Exodus 39:32 · KJVThe tabernacle’s completion is described as the finishing of all its work.

The LORD will perfect that which concerneth me: thy mercy, O LORD, endureth for ever: forsake not the works of thine own hands.

Psalm 138:8 · KJVThe psalm speaks of a work brought toward its completion in the life of the one who reads it.

Being confident of this very thing, that he which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ:

Philippians 1:6 · KJVA work begun in the reader continues toward its completion.

THE THREAD

These are the generations of Noah: Noah was a just man and perfect in his generations, and Noah walked with God.

Genesis 6:9 · KJV

The word translated “finished” here is ⁨תֹּם⁩ (tom), “completion,” from ⁨תמם⁩ (tamam), “to become whole or complete”; Noah is called ⁨תָּמִים⁩ (tamim), “whole, complete,” in Genesis. The shared root links the temple’s completion with Noah’s wholeness.

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