What Does 1 Samuel 10:15 Mean in the King James?
And Saul’s uncle said, Tell me, I pray thee, what Samuel said unto you.
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 “tell” links making something known with bringing it before another person.
THE MEANING
You stand at the moment when something heard is asked to become speakable. Here, “tell” carries the sense of making a matter known, bringing it before another person. The request is clear, while the answer is still out of view.
THE ROOT
הַגִּידָה
haggidah
GROWS FROM
נגד
nagad
To be in front or conspicuous; in this verb form, to make known or declare.
The verb comes from נגד (nagad), whose range joins being in front with making something known. English says “tell”; the Hebrew root also evokes bringing the matter before the listener.
ALSO GROWS
neged: Before, in front of, opposite.
נֶגֶד
This branch makes the root’s spatial sense visible: telling brings a matter before someone.
nagid: Leader, ruler; one who goes before.
נָגִיד
The same root can describe someone positioned in front, linking the act of making known with what stands before others.
THE PATTERN
Telling brings what has been heard before another person, making it available to be known.
And the thin ears devoured the seven good ears: and I told this unto the magicians; but there was none that could declare it to me.And Samuel told him every whit, and hid nothing from him. And he said, It is the LORD: let him do what seemeth him good.What I tell you in darkness, that speak ye in light: and what ye hear in the ear, that preach ye upon the housetops.THE THREAD
And Saul said unto his uncle, He told us plainly that the asses were found. But of the matter of the kingdom, whereof Samuel spake, he told him not.Verse 15 asks for disclosure with הַגִּידָה (haggidah, “tell”); verse 16 repeats that same root נגד (nagad, “make known”) for what Saul shares and what he withholds. The repeated word makes the distinction sharp: he tells his uncle about the donkeys, but not about the kingdom.
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