What Does 1 Kings 9:14 Mean in the King James?
And Hiram sent to the king sixscore talents of gold.
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 gold enters the king’s hands through a verb that holds sending and release together: abundance arrives in motion.
THE MEANING
Provision crosses from one hand to another. What is held in abundance becomes part of another’s life when it is released and sent. The value of the gold includes the relationship its sending creates.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
The belief that abundance is safest or most complete when it stays in one’s own possession.
THE ROOT
שִׁלַּח
shillaḥ
GROWS FROM
שלח
To send forth, release, or let go.
English “sent” can sound like mere delivery, but שלח carries release within the act of sending: the gold enters a relationship because someone lets it go. The same root can describe a sent messenger and the sent waters of Shiloah, making movement part of what the word carries.
ALSO GROWS
shalach: To send, send forth, or release.
שָׁלַח
This is the root verb in the verse: the gold moves because it is sent forth.
shaliach: A messenger or emissary, one who is sent.
שְׁלִיחַ
The branch names someone who carries what another has released into motion.
Shiloach: Shiloah, the sent waters.
שִׁלֹחַ
The name connects sending with water that reaches and supplies a place.
THE PATTERN
What is released and sent carries provision, purpose, or life beyond the hand that lets it go.
Come now therefore, and I will send thee unto Pharaoh, that thou mayest bring forth my people the children of Israel out of Egypt.Now therefore be not grieved, nor angry with yourselves, that ye sold me hither: for God did send me before you to preserve life.Then said Jesus to them again, Peace be unto you: as my Father hath sent me, even so send I you.THE THREAD
And said unto him, Go, wash in the pool of Siloam, (which is by interpretation, Sent.) He went his way therefore, and washed, and came seeing.The gold here moves through שלח (shalach, send or release); John’s pool of Siloam carries the name “Sent.” The shared root links provision arriving as gold with water that reaches a man and restores his sight.
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