What Does 1 Kings 9:17 Mean in the King James?
And Solomon built Gezer, and Beth-horon the nether,
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 Hebrew word for “built” is linked to “son,” so building carries the sense of forming what can continue and grow.
THE MEANING
You see Gezer and lower Beth-horon taking shape through the act of building. The Hebrew verb holds construction together with the forming of what can continue beyond its maker.
THE ROOT
וַיִּבֶן
vayyiven from banah
GROWS FROM
בנה
b-n-h
To build, form, or establish.
“built” in this verse is vayyiven from banah. The root connects the act of building with what is formed to endure. Hebrew also links this root with ben, “son”: building can carry the sense of forming what continues and grows.
ALSO GROWS
binyan: Building; structure
בִּנְיָן
This noun names the formed structure itself, extending the verse’s verb into a durable result.
boneh: Builder; one who builds
בּוֹנֶה
This form keeps the focus on the active shaping of a place.
ben: Son
בֵּן
Traditionally linked with the b-n-h family, it evokes a household being built onward through its children.
THE PATTERN
What is built takes its form from the wisdom or foundation on which it rests.
Through wisdom is an house builded; and by understanding it is established:Therefore whosoever heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them, I will liken him unto a wise man, which built his house upon a rock:THE THREAD
And the rib, which the LORD God had taken from man, made he a woman, and brought her unto the man.The Hebrew verb rendered “made” is וַיִּבֶן (vayyiven), from the same root, בנה, as “built” here. The shared word connects a city taking shape with the forming of a person.
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