What Does 1 Samuel 10:4 Mean in the King James?
And they will salute thee, and give thee two loaves of bread; which thou shalt receive of their hands.
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 greeting translated “salute” asks after your shalom, your wholeness, and the answer arrives as bread in your hands.
THE MEANING
You are met with a question after your wholeness, then with bread you can receive. Welcome is spoken and made tangible through provision offered by another.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
The verse undoes the belief that welcome is only polite language: here the greeting comes with bread for you to receive.
THE ROOT
לְשָׁלוֹם
le-shalom
GROWS FROM
שׁלם
sh-l-m
To be whole or complete; to bring to completion.
“salute” in this verse is le-shalom. The greeting asks after your שָׁלוֹם (shalom, wholeness), making your well-being the subject of the encounter. Bread then gives that spoken care a tangible form, placed in your hands to receive.
ALSO GROWS
shalem: Whole, complete, intact.
שָׁלֵם
It makes explicit the wholeness carried within the greeting’s shalom.
shillem: To repay, recompense, or make good.
שִׁלֵּם
The same root links wholeness with making something complete or restoring what is due.
shelamim: Peace offerings, offerings associated with well-being.
שְׁלָמִים
This branch connects shalom with a shared, embodied expression of well-being.
THE PATTERN
Welcome joins words of peace to concrete provision.
And I will fetch a morsel of bread, and comfort ye your hearts; after that ye shall pass on: for therefore are ye come to your servant. And they said, So do, as thou hast said.And if the house be worthy, let your peace come upon it: but if it be not worthy, let your peace return to you.And they, continuing daily with one accord in the temple, and breaking bread from house to house, did eat their meat with gladness and singleness of heart,THE THREAD
The LORD lift up his countenance upon thee, and give thee peace.The word translated “peace” is שָׁלוֹם (shalom, wholeness), the same word carried in the greeting here. Numbers names wholeness as a gift; in 1 Samuel, the greeting is followed by bread placed in your hands.
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