What Does 1 Kings 6:34 Mean in the King James?
And the two doors were of fir tree: the two leaves of the one door were folding, and the two leaves of the other door were folding.
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 word “folding” carries the sense of rolling: the sanctuary’s entrance opens through movement at its boundary, not by breaking it.
THE MEANING
A sacred threshold is made with leaves that turn, so passage depends on a boundary capable of movement. The image speaks now wherever a closed entrance seems fixed: its design may still allow it to open.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
A closed boundary is not necessarily a sealed one; here, the entrance is designed with leaves that turn to make a way through.
THE ROOT
גְּלִילִים
gelilim
GROWS FROM
גָּלַל
To roll or roll around; by extension, to turn.
The word rendered “folding” is גְּלִילִים (gelilim), from גָּלַל (galal), “to roll.” The same root describes a stone rolled away from a well and a way “committed” by rolling it onto the LORD, so the entrance’s leaves evoke a threshold made passable through movement.
ALSO GROWS
wegalalu: To roll away.
וְגָלֲלוּ
In Genesis 29:3, this form describes rolling the stone from the well’s mouth; like these door leaves, a barrier moves to uncover an opening.
gol: To roll or place upon; rendered “commit” in Psalm 37:5.
גּוֹל
The verse’s “Commit thy way” uses this root, connecting the doors’ turning movement with the image of placing one’s way onto the LORD.
THE PATTERN
An entrance becomes passable when what covers it is moved aside.
And thither were all the flocks gathered: and they rolled the stone from the well’s mouth, and watered the sheep, and put the stone again upon the well’s mouth in his place.Commit thy way unto the LORD; trust also in him; and he shall bring it to pass.I am the door: by me if any man enter in, he shall be saved, and shall go in and out, and find pasture.THE THREAD
And thither were all the flocks gathered: and they rolled the stone from the well’s mouth, and watered the sheep, and put the stone again upon the well’s mouth in his place.The same root, גָּלַל (galal), “to roll,” describes the stone being moved from the well’s mouth. Here, as there, an opening becomes usable when its covering moves; the shared root lets “folding” carry the sense of a threshold made to turn.
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