What Does 1 Samuel 10:13 Mean in the King James?
And when he had made an end of prophesying, he came to the high place.
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 prophetic utterance ends, but the speaker keeps moving: the verse separates the moment of prophecy from the person who carries it.
THE MEANING
The prophesying reaches its end, and he comes to the high place. An utterance can have a boundary while the person’s movement continues.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
A prophetic moment must continue indefinitely to remain real.
THE ROOT
מֵהִתְנַבּוֹת
mehitnabbōt
GROWS FROM
נבא
To speak prophetically, to utter a prophetic message.
The Hebrew word for prophesying shares its root with the words for prophet and prophecy, keeping the speaker and the utterance in one word-family. Here that utterance has a clear end, while the speaker moves on.
ALSO GROWS
navi: A person who speaks prophetically.
נָבִיא
The noun for the speaker shares the seed of the action that reaches its end in this verse.
nevuah: A prophetic utterance or message.
נְבוּאָה
The word for the utterance belongs to the same family, joining what is spoken to the one who speaks.
THE PATTERN
Scripture describes prophecy as an action people enter and speak, rather than a permanent state.
And the LORD came down in a cloud, and spake unto him, and took of the spirit that was upon him, and gave it unto the seventy elders: and it came to pass, that, when the spirit rested upon them, they prophesied, and did not cease.And it shall come to pass afterward, that I will pour out my spirit upon all flesh; and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, your young men shall see visions:And when Paul had laid his hands upon them, the Holy Ghost came on them; and they spake with tongues, and prophesied.THE THREAD
And when they came thither to the hill, behold, a company of prophets met him; and the Spirit of God came upon him, and he prophesied among them.This verse shows the prophetic utterance beginning as the breath of God comes upon him; the present verse says that utterance reaches its end. The shared root נבא (naba, to speak prophetically) links the beginning and the ending.
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