What Does 1 Kings 7:21 Mean in the King James?
And he set up the pillars in the porch of the temple: and he set up the right pillar, and called the name thereof Jachin: and he set up the left pillar, and called the name thereof Boaz.
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 temple’s entrance is held by two names, “He establishes” and “in strength”, turning its pillars into a declaration.
THE MEANING
The temple entrance holds two named realities: establishment and strength. The right pillar is called Jachin, “he establishes”, and the left Boaz, commonly understood as “in strength”; together their names describe what stands at the threshold as made firm and able to bear weight.
THE ROOT
יָכִין
yāḵîn
GROWS FROM
כון
kun
To be firm, established, or made ready.
Jachin carries the sense “he establishes.” The name gives the pillar more meaning than a support: its place is made firm, and that firmness is spoken at the temple’s entrance.
ALSO GROWS
hēḵîn: Prepared, made ready, or established.
הֵכִין
This causative form of כון shows establishment as making something ready to stand in its place.
māḵôn: A fixed place or dwelling.
מָכוֹן
The temple is called a settled dwelling in 1 Kings 8:13 using this word from the same root, linking Jachin’s name with the place the pillars support.
בֹּעַז
bōʿaz
GROWS FROM
עזז
ʿazaz
To be strong or powerful; strength.
Boaz is commonly understood as “in strength.” Its name places strength at the temple’s threshold, beside Jachin’s declaration of establishment.
ALSO GROWS
ʿōz: Strength or might.
עֹז
This noun supplies the strength heard in Boaz’s name and names what the pillar represents.
māʿôz: A stronghold or refuge.
מָעוֹז
The same strength-root can describe a place of refuge, joining the pillar’s bearing strength with the shelter of a secure dwelling.
THE PATTERN
What endures as a dwelling is established and upheld by strength.
For I have said, Mercy shall be built up for ever: thy faithfulness shalt thou establish in the very heavens.Of the increase of his government and peace there shall be no end, upon the throne of David, and upon his kingdom, to order it, and to establish it with judgment and with justice from henceforth even for ever. The zeal of the LORD of hosts will perform this.Him that overcometh will I make a pillar in the temple of my God, and he shall go no more out: and I will write upon him the name of my God, and the name of the city of my God, which is new Jerusalem, which cometh down out of heaven from my God: and I will write upon him my new name.THE THREAD
I have surely built thee an house to dwell in, a settled place for thee to abide in for ever.“Settled place” is מָכוֹן (māḵôn, makon), from כון (kun), “to be established”, the same root carried by Jachin. The pillar’s name and the word for the temple’s dwelling share a seed: establishment gives the place its lasting form.
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