What Does 1 Kings 9:20 Mean in the King James?
And all the people that were left of the Amorites, Hittites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites, which were not of the children of Israel,
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 translated “left” shares its root with “remnant”: those who remain are still named as a people, not reduced to an empty margin.
THE MEANING
When you are marked as outside a group’s lineage, you still remain present and distinct; the boundary does not erase you. The verse keeps those left in view as peoples with names, not an anonymous mass.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
What lies outside my group’s lineage is just an unnamed remainder.
THE ROOT
הַנִּשְׁאָר
hannish’ar
GROWS FROM
שׁאר
sha’ar
Remain, be left over.
English makes “left” sound like a bare condition. The Hebrew word comes from the same root that names a remnant, so what survives retains a people’s distinct identity instead of thinning into a faceless leftover.
ALSO GROWS
she’ar: Remnant, remainder.
שְׁאָר
This noun names what remains; the shared root holds the people in the verse as a distinct remainder.
she’erit: Remnant, surviving part.
שְׁאֵרִית
This branch names a surviving community, connecting being left over with continuing to exist as a people.
THE PATTERN
A remnant remains legible as a people even when only part survives.
And God sent me before you to preserve you a posterity in the earth, and to save your lives by a great deliverance.And it shall come to pass in that day, that the remnant of Israel, and such as are escaped of the house of Jacob, shall no more again stay upon him that smote them; but shall stay upon the LORD, the Holy One of Israel, in truth.Even so then at this present time also there is a remnant according to the election of grace.THE THREAD
And it shall come to pass in that day, that the remnant of Israel, and such as are escaped of the house of Jacob, shall no more again stay upon him that smote them; but shall stay upon the LORD, the Holy One of Israel, in truth.The Hebrew word rendered “remnant” is שְׁאָר (she’ar), from the same שׁאר root as “left” in 1 Kings. The shared seed connects the act of remaining with the people who remain: survival still has a name.
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