What Does 1 Samuel 25:43 Mean in the King James?
David also took Ahinoam of Jezreel; and they were also both of them his wives.
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 names carry their own nature into this household line: beloved, pleasantness, and God sows.
THE MEANING
This verse holds marriage as a concrete bond: Ahinoam is named as David’s wife. Her name carries “my brother is pleasantness,” while David means “beloved” and Jezreel means “God sows.” The sentence keeps these names and their meanings together without explaining them away.
THE ROOT
יִזְרְעֶאל
Yizreʿel
GROWS FROM
זרע
z-r-ʿ
To sow, scattering seed into the ground.
Jezreel holds “God sows” inside the place-name. The verse’s location is not a bare label; the name carries the image of seed being sown into the ground.
ALSO GROWS
zeraʿ: Seed, offspring.
זֶרַע
The name’s seed imagery also reaches into the idea of what is sown and what grows from it.
zāraʿ: To sow.
זָרַע
This verb supplies the action carried in Jezreel: sowing.
אֲחִינֹעַם
ʾAḥînoʿam
GROWS FROM
נעם
n-ʿ-m
To be pleasant or delightful.
Ahinoam joins “brother” with the root of pleasantness: her name carries the phrase “my brother is pleasantness.” The English line leaves that sense folded inside a personal name.
ALSO GROWS
noʿam: Pleasantness, delight.
נֹעַם
This noun is the pleasantness carried in Ahinoam’s name.
naʿim: Pleasant, delightful.
נָעִים
This adjective shows the same root describing what is pleasing.
דָּוִד
Dāwîd
GROWS FROM
דוד
d-w-d
Beloved; a loved one.
David’s name carries “beloved” within the sentence. The root also appears in the language of belovedness, so the name holds a quality, not merely an identifier.
ALSO GROWS
dōd: Beloved, loved one.
דּוֹד
This word shares David’s root and makes the name’s sense audible.
dōdî: My beloved.
דּוֹדִי
The same root appears as an intimate address, showing how the name’s meaning can be spoken as a relationship.
THE PATTERN
Scripture lets names carry the nature of a person or place into the story.
Let not my lord, I pray thee, regard this man of Belial, even Nabal: for as his name is, so is he; Nabal is his name, and folly is with him: but I thine handmaid saw not the young men of my lord, whom thou didst send.Neither shall thy name any more be called Abram, but thy name shall be Abraham; for a father of many nations have I made thee.And she shall bring forth a son, and thou shalt call his name JESUS: for he shall save his people from their sins.THE THREAD
Let not my lord, I pray thee, regard this man of Belial, even Nabal: for as his name is, so is he; Nabal is his name, and folly is with him: but I thine handmaid saw not the young men of my lord, whom thou didst send.This verse states plainly that a name can carry a person’s nature. That opens 1 Samuel 25:43 to the meanings held in David, Ahinoam, and Jezreel, while leaving its household statement intact.
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