What Does 1 Samuel 10:6 Mean in the King James?
And the Spirit of the LORD will come upon thee, and thou shalt prophesy with them, and shalt be turned into another man.
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 LORD’s breath changes both the voice that speaks and the person from whom it speaks.
THE MEANING
The LORD’s breath comes upon you, opening speech beyond your ordinary capacity. That same breath reaches beyond what you say: you are turned into another person. The change comes upon you; it is not something you manufacture.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
The belief that you are fixed as the person you are dissolves here: the LORD’s breath can change both your expression and the person expressing it.
THE ROOT
רוּחַ
ruach
GROWS FROM
רוח
Moving air: wind, breath, or spirit.
English separates “Spirit” from “breath,” but Hebrew uses one word, רוּחַ (ruach), for both. The LORD’s breath is the force that comes upon you, opens your speech, and accompanies your change.
ALSO GROWS
ruach: Wind, moving air.
רוּחַ
This sense shows ruach as something that comes and moves, not only an abstract idea.
ruach: Breath, the air of life.
רוּחַ
This sense links the LORD’s coming breath with the voice and changed person in the verse.
נֶהְפַּכְתָּ
nehpakhta
GROWS FROM
הפך
Turn, overturn, transform.
The root can describe a turning over or an overturning, so “turned into another man” carries a sense of a real reversal in condition. The verse presents transformation as something that happens to you.
ALSO GROWS
nehpakhta: You were turned or transformed.
נֶהְפַּכְתָּ
This is the form used for the change in this verse.
wayyahafok: He overturned; he turned upside down.
וַיַּהֲפֹךְ
The same root can name a sweeping reversal, giving “turned” more force than a slight adjustment.
וְהִתְנַבִּיתָ
ve-hitnabbita
GROWS FROM
נבא
Prophesy; speak as a prophet.
“prophesy” in this verse is ve-hitnabbita. The act of prophesying and the prophet grow from the same root. The verse describes a voice opening into prophetic speech alongside a change in the speaker.
ALSO GROWS
navi: Prophet.
נָבִיא
The speaker named by this root is linked to the act of prophesying.
nevuah: Prophecy, prophetic utterance.
נְבוּאָה
This branch names the speech that opens when the LORD’s breath comes upon you.
THE PATTERN
When the LORD’s breath comes upon people, it opens speech beyond their ordinary voice.
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 they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance.THE THREAD
So I prophesied as he commanded me, and the breath came into them, and they lived, and stood up upon their feet, an exceeding great army.The Hebrew רוּחַ (ruach, breath, wind, spirit) in Ezekiel is the same word translated “Spirit” here. The same breath is joined to prophetic speech and to bodies rising into a changed life.
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