What Does 1 Samuel 9:10 Mean in the King James?
Then said Saul to his servant, Well said; come, let us go. So they went unto the city where the man of God was.
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 Hebrew repeats one root for “go,” “let us go,” and “they went”: Saul’s agreement becomes shared movement.
THE MEANING
A useful word reaches you through another person and becomes a direction you can take together. Discernment moves into a shared journey toward the man of God.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
It undoes the belief that the next step has to be found alone: Saul receives his servant’s judgment, and they go together.
THE ROOT
לְכָה
lekhah
GROWS FROM
הלך
halakh
to go, to walk
“go / let us go / went” in this verse is lekhah. The same Hebrew root appears in Saul’s command, his “let us go,” and the narrator’s “they went.” The word moves from suggestion to agreement to action, all within one verb family.
ALSO GROWS
holekh: one who goes or walks
הוֹלֵךְ
This participle keeps the root’s movement visible as an ongoing act, like the journey Saul and his servant begin.
halikhah: going, walking
הֲלִיכָה
This noun names the movement itself, echoing how Saul’s assent becomes a journey.
THE PATTERN
A received word becomes visible in the movement it sets in motion.
So Abram departed, as the LORD had spoken unto him; and Lot went with him: and Abram was seventy and five years old when he departed out of Haran.And they called Rebekah, and said unto her, Wilt thou go with this man? And she said, I will go.My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me:THE THREAD
So Abram departed, as the LORD had spoken unto him; and Lot went with him: and Abram was seventy and five years old when he departed out of Haran.The Hebrew verb for Abram’s “departed” shares the root הלך (halakh), “to go, to walk,” with Saul’s “went.” In both verses, movement follows a received word, and another person goes along.
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