What Does 1 Samuel 1:25 Mean in the King James?
And they slew a bullock, and brought the child to Eli.
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 verb “brought” means “caused to come,” so Samuel’s dedication takes the form of an arrival into Eli’s presence.
THE MEANING
The scene speaks now of a promise embodied: a bull is slaughtered, and the boy is brought to Eli. Eli’s name, עֵלִי (ʿEli), means “my God,” giving the destination a name of relationship. Dedication appears here as a concrete arrival with a cost.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
It undoes the belief that a promise is complete once it is spoken; here, fulfillment has a visible body and destination.
THE ROOT
וַיָּבִאוּ
wayyavi'u
GROWS FROM
בוא
Come, enter, arrive; in this causative form, cause to come or bring.
The form וַיָּבִאוּ (wayyavi’u, “they brought”) is built from בוא (bôʾ, “come, enter”) in a causative form: they cause the boy to come. The verse gives dedication a direction: Samuel arrives in Eli’s presence, so the act carries both a destination and a relationship.
ALSO GROWS
bo: To come, enter, arrive
בּוֹא
This is the root’s basic movement; its causative form describes the family making Samuel come into Eli’s presence.
mavo: Entrance, entry
מָבוֹא
This noun names a point of entry, illuminating “brought” as movement toward arrival.
THE PATTERN
A vowed gift becomes visible when it is carried into the place where it is dedicated.
When thou vowest a vow unto God, defer not to pay it; for he hath no pleasure in fools: pay that which thou hast vowed.I will pay my vows unto the LORD now in the presence of all his people.And when the days of her purification according to the law of Moses were accomplished, they brought him to Jerusalem, to present him to the Lord;THE THREAD
And out of the ground the LORD God formed every beast of the field, and every fowl of the air; and brought them unto Adam to see what he would call them: and whatsoever Adam called every living creature, that was the name thereof.Genesis 2:19 uses the same root, בוא (bôʾ, “come, enter”), for the LORD bringing the creatures to Adam (אָדָם, ʾĀdām, “the ground-being”). In both verses, bringing describes an arrival into another’s presence; Genesis adds the moment when Adam names what arrives.
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