What Does 1 Kings 7:49 Mean in the King James?

And the candlesticks of pure gold, five on the right side, and five on the left, before the oracle, with the flowers, and the lamps, and the tongs of gold,

1 Kings 7:49 · 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 sanctuary’s light is shaped alongside blossom: flowering and flame share the same golden setting.

THE MEANING

This verse places blossoms, lamps, and the tools that tend them before the innermost place. Its image holds illumination and flowering together, presenting sacred order as something alive with growth.

THE ROOT

פֶּרַח

perach

GROWS FROM

פרח

To blossom, sprout, or break forth in growth.

The word translated “flowers” comes from the same root as the verb “to blossom.” The golden ornament carries the sense of growth coming into visible form, not merely a decorative shape.

ALSO GROWS

lifroaḥ: To blossom or sprout.

לִפְרֹחַ

This verb is the action contained in the flower’s name: growth breaking into view.

yipraḥ: He shall flourish or blossom.

יִפְרַח

This form appears in Psalm 92:12, joining the sanctuary’s flower to the flourishing of the righteous.

THE PATTERN

Scripture joins illumination with living forms of growth.

Three bowls made like unto almonds, with a knop and a flower in one branch; and three bowls made like almonds in the other branch, with a knop and a flower: so in the six branches that come out of the candlestick.

Exodus 25:33 · KJVThe lampstand’s light-bearing branches take the shapes of almond blossoms.

The righteous shall flourish like the palm tree: he shall grow like a cedar in Lebanon.

Psalm 92:12 · KJVThe same root as the sanctuary’s flower describes a person flourishing into life.

In him was life; and the life was the light of men.

John 1:4 · KJVHere life and light are joined directly, as blossom and lamp are placed together in the sanctuary.

THE THREAD

The righteous shall flourish like the palm tree: he shall grow like a cedar in Lebanon.

Psalm 92:12 · KJV

The same Hebrew root that names the gold flower here names the flourishing in this psalm. Flowering is not only a shape on the lampstand; it is also the language of life coming into visible growth.

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