What Does 1 Samuel 13:18 Mean in the King James?
And another company turned the way to Beth-horon: and another company turned to the way of the border that looketh to the valley of Zeboim toward the wilderness.
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 same Hebrew root carries both turning and facing, so the verse maps each company by what it faces.
THE MEANING
Pressure can move along several routes at once. One company turns toward Beth-horon while another faces the border by the valley of Zeboim toward the wilderness; the danger has divided directions, and the verse names each one.
THE ROOT
תִּפֶּנֶה
tippenéh
GROWS FROM
פנה
p-n-h
To turn or face toward.
“turned” in this verse is tippenéh. The Hebrew form תִּפֶּנֶה (tippenéh, turn/face) repeats here, naming each company by its orientation toward a route. The same root appears in פָּנִים (pānîm, face) and פִּנָּה (pinnah, corner), linking facing with a marked change in direction.
ALSO GROWS
pānîm: Face; presence.
פָּנִים
A turn is an act of facing; the route names what the company faces.
pinnah: Corner.
פִּנָּה
A corner marks where a line changes direction, echoing the verse’s image of movement turning toward a route.
THE PATTERN
A movement becomes legible through what it faces and the route it takes.
Turn you, and take your journey, and go to the mount of the Amorites, and unto all the places nigh thereunto, in the plain, in the hills, and in the vale, and in the south, and by the sea side, to the land of the Canaanites, and unto Lebanon, unto the great river, the river Euphrates.And it came to pass, as Aaron spake unto the whole congregation of the children of Israel, that they looked toward the wilderness, and, behold, the glory of the LORD appeared in the cloud.And it came to pass, when the time was come that he should be received up, he stedfastly set his face to go to Jerusalem,THE THREAD
And it came to pass, as Aaron spake unto the whole congregation of the children of Israel, that they looked toward the wilderness, and, behold, the glory of the LORD appeared in the cloud.The same Hebrew root פנה (panah, turn/face) appears as “looked” in Exodus 16:10, where the congregation faces the wilderness. English renders the motions differently, but both verses tie orientation to a named direction; in Exodus, the LORD’s weight comes into view there.
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