What Does 1 Samuel 9:11 Mean in the King James?
And as they went up the hill to the city, they found young maidens going out to draw water, and said unto them, Is the seer here?
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 seer is literally the one who sees, and the search for him begins along the everyday path of women drawing water.
THE MEANING
When you are searching for insight, the way toward it can pass through people already attending to ordinary needs. The women are going out to draw water, while the question asks whether the one who sees is there. The search and the daily task share the same moment.
THE ROOT
רֹאֶה
ro’eh
GROWS FROM
ראה
To see, look, or perceive.
English makes seer sound like a separate role, but the Hebrew word is formed from the ordinary act of seeing. It names the sought person as the one who perceives, while leaving open what that perception entails.
ALSO GROWS
ra’ah: To see, look at, or perceive.
רָאָה
The seer is named through this same act: the one who sees.
mar’eh: Sight, appearance, or vision.
מַרְאֶה
This branch carries seeing into what is seen, linking the seer with sight and vision.
THE PATTERN
A meaningful encounter can emerge through people met in the ordinary course of drawing water.
And it came to pass, before he had done speaking, that, behold, Rebekah came out, who was born to Bethuel, son of Milcah, the wife of Nahor, Abraham’s brother, with her pitcher upon her shoulder.There cometh a woman of Samaria to draw water: Jesus saith unto her, Give me to drink.THE THREAD
And Samuel answered Saul, and said, I am the seer: go up before me unto the high place; for ye shall eat with me to day, and to morrow I will let thee go, and will tell thee all that is in thine heart.The same Hebrew word for seer, רֹאֶה (ro’eh), returns when Samuel answers Saul directly. The one sought for his seeing says he will also disclose what is in Saul’s heart.
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