What Does 1 Kings 7:11 Mean in the King James?
And above were costly stones, after the measures of hewed stones, and cedars.
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 for “costly” also carries the sense of what is precious and esteemed, and here that worth takes a measured form.
THE MEANING
Above are costly stones measured to match the hewn stones, alongside cedar. Preciousness takes shape within a measured design; the materials belong to a structure, not apart from it.
THE ROOT
יְקָרוֹת
yeqarot
GROWS FROM
יקר
To be precious, costly, or esteemed.
The root holds cost and preciousness together: what is costly is also what is valued. Here, that value is part of a larger, measured structure.
ALSO GROWS
yaqar: Precious, costly, esteemed.
יָקָר
It shows the value carried by the stones is expressed in more than price alone.
yeqarah: Precious, valuable.
יְקָרָה
The same root describes what is esteemed as precious, linking these building stones to value held beyond their material.
גָּזִית
gazit
GROWS FROM
גזז
To cut off or shear; here, cut stone.
“hewn” in this verse is gazit. The word carries the act of cutting in its root. The stone’s place in the structure begins with material shaped by removal.
ALSO GROWS
gazaz: To shear or cut off.
גָּזַז
It makes visible the cutting contained in the word for hewn stone.
gez: Fleece shorn from an animal.
גֵּז
Like hewn stone, it names material after something has been cut away.
מִדּוֹת
middot
GROWS FROM
מדד
To measure.
The measures give the costly stones a relationship to the hewn stones: their value is set within shared dimensions. The verse presents worth and proportion together.
ALSO GROWS
madad: To measure.
מָדַד
It names the action behind the dimensions that shape the stones’ relation to one another.
middah: Measure, size, or portion.
מִדָּה
It shows that a stone’s place in the design is shaped by its proportion.
THE PATTERN
A dwelling takes shape as its materials are prepared and brought into a fitting whole.
And the house, when it was in building, was built of stone made ready before it was brought thither: so that there was neither hammer nor axe nor any tool of iron heard in the house, while it was in building.In whom all the building fitly framed together groweth unto an holy temple in the Lord:Ye also, as lively stones, are built up a spiritual house, an holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ.THE THREAD
She is more precious than rubies: and all the things thou canst desire are not to be compared unto her.“Precious” in Proverbs and “costly” here share the Hebrew root יקר (yaqar), meaning precious or esteemed. The shared root lets the stones’ cost carry the added sense of what is deeply valued.
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