What Does 1 Samuel 21:5 Mean in the King James?
And David answered the priest, and said unto him, Of a truth women have been kept from us about these three days, since I came out, and the vessels of the young men are holy, and the bread is in a manner common, yea, though it were sanctified this day in the vessel.
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 verse keeps the holy and the common in the same frame, showing that set-apartness does not erase the ordinary.
THE MEANING
The verse names set-apartness and ordinary things side by side: the young men’s vessels are called holy while the bread is described as common, even as sanctifying is named in the same sentence. One condition does not automatically erase the other.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
It undoes the belief that ordinary and set apart cannot coexist in the same moment.
THE ROOT
קֹדֶשׁ
qōdeš
GROWS FROM
ק־ד־שׁ
q-d-sh
To set apart; to distinguish for a sacred use.
Under “holy” is the sense of being set apart, and the verse’s later “sanctified” comes from that same root. The young men’s vessels are set apart while the bread’s common condition remains visible beside them.
ALSO GROWS
yiqdash: be set apart; be sanctified
יִקְדַּשׁ
This form appears later in the verse, tying “sanctified” directly to “holy.”
qādôsh: set apart; holy
קָדוֹשׁ
This adjective names the same distinct condition the verse attributes to the young men’s vessels.
miqdāsh: sanctuary; a place set apart
מִקְדָּשׁ
The word carries the root’s sense into a distinct place, keeping set-apartness concrete.
THE PATTERN
Set-apartness names a distinct condition that can coexist with ordinary things and be expressed through preparation.
And the LORD said unto Moses, Go unto the people, and sanctify them to day and to morrow, and let them wash their clothes,I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.If a man therefore purge himself from these, he shall be a vessel unto honour, sanctified, and meet for the master’s use, and prepared unto every good work.THE THREAD
And the LORD said unto Moses, Go unto the people, and sanctify them to day and to morrow, and let them wash their clothes,“Sanctify” here grows from the same Hebrew root, ק־ד־שׁ (q-d-sh), as Samuel’s “holy”: both name being set apart. The connection shows that the root can mark a particular thing as set apart while ordinary things remain visible beside it.
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