What Does 1 Kings 6:25 Mean in the King James?

And the other cherub was ten cubits: both the cherubims were of one measure and one size.

1 Kings 6:25 · 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 two cherubim remain distinct, yet share a measured form, correspondence is part of the sanctuary’s design.

THE MEANING

The verse places two distinct figures within one measure and one form. Their likeness does not erase their distinction; it gives their pairing a visible shape.

THE ROOT

מִדָּה

middāh

GROWS FROM

מדד

m-d-d

To measure or measure out an extent.

English presents “measure” as a static unit, while its Hebrew root also names the act of measuring out an extent. The cherubim share a bounded span as well as a form, so the verse describes deliberate correspondence, not simply resemblance.

ALSO GROWS

middāh: A measure, dimension, or measured amount.

מִדָּה

This is the word used for the cherubim’s shared measure: their correspondence has a definite extent.

mādad: To measure or measure out.

מָדַד

The verb shows the action beneath the noun: a shared measure is an extent laid out and defined.

THE PATTERN

A shared design can hold distinct parts in coordinated unity.

And make one cherub on the one end, and the other cherub on the other end: even of the mercy seat shall ye make the cherubims on the two ends thereof.

Exodus 25:19 · KJVTwo cherubim occupy distinct ends while belonging to one designed whole.

For as the body is one, and hath many members, and all the members of that one body, being many, are one body: so also is Christ.

1 Corinthians 12:12 · KJVMany distinct members share one body, just as the two figures share one measure and form.

From whom the whole body fitly joined together and compacted by that which every joint supplieth, according to the effectual working in the measure of every part, maketh increase of the body unto the edifying of itself in love.

Ephesians 4:16 · KJVThe body’s unity takes shape through parts joined in proportion, each contributing to the whole.

THE THREAD

Who serve unto the example and shadow of heavenly things, as Moses was admonished of God when he was about to make the tabernacle: for, See, saith he, that thou make all things according to the pattern shewed to thee in the mount.

Hebrews 8:5 · KJV

Hebrews speaks of a sanctuary made according to a shown pattern. Here, the shared dimensions of the cherubim let you see that pattern expressed in the details of the sacred space.

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