What Does 2 Chronicles 4:21 Mean in the King James?
And the flowers, and the lamps, and the tongs, made he of gold, and that perfect gold;
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 makes blossoming, light, and the tools that tend it one golden work.
THE MEANING
Blossoming forms, lamps, and their working tools share one material: gold. The verse’s “perfect gold” gathers qualities of purity and completeness into every part of the making.
THE ROOT
פֶּרַח
perach
GROWS FROM
פרח
To sprout, blossom, or put forth growth.
The word for “flowers” carries the action of blossoming: this design gives the language of growth to the architecture of light. The ornament is not merely a shape; its name holds the sense of flourishing.
ALSO GROWS
parach: To sprout or blossom.
פָּרַח
The flower’s name grows from the verb for opening into growth, bringing flourishing into the lamp’s design.
yiphrach: He or it will blossom; it will flourish.
יִפְרַח
This form shows the same root extending from a flower to the act of flourishing.
טָהוֹר
tahor
GROWS FROM
טהר
To be clean or pure.
“perfect gold” in this verse is tahor. The gold is described as pure, so the same quality belongs to the flowers, lamps, and tongs. Purity reaches even the fine details and working implements.
ALSO GROWS
taher: To be clean or to purify.
טָהֵר
The verb makes purity an action and condition held in the word for the gold.
tahorah: Purity or cleansing.
טָהֳרָה
This noun carries the same root into the quality the verse gives its crafted objects.
סָגוּר
sagur
GROWS FROM
סגר
To shut, close, or enclose.
“perfect gold” in this verse is sagur. Alongside “pure,” the Hebrew describes the gold as “closed” or “enclosed.” The wording gives the image of gold complete through its substance, not merely gilding the surface.
ALSO GROWS
sagar: To shut or close.
סָגַר
This is the root action behind the description of the gold as closed or enclosed.
sagur: Shut, closed, or enclosed.
סָגוּר
This form appears in the gold description and adds a sense of completeness to its purity.
THE PATTERN
Scripture repeatedly pictures light-bearing forms in gold, joining illumination to precious crafted work.
And thou shalt make a candlestick of pure gold: of beaten work shall the candlestick be made: his shaft, and his branches, his bowls, his knops, and his flowers, shall be of the same.And said unto me, What seest thou? And I said, I have looked, and behold a candlestick all of gold, with a bowl upon the top of it, and his seven lamps thereon, and seven pipes to the seven lamps, which are upon the top thereof:And I turned to see the voice that spake with me. And being turned, I saw seven golden candlesticks;THE THREAD
Three bowls made like unto almonds, with a knop and a flower in one branch; and three bowls made like almonds in the other branch, with a knop and a flower: so in the six branches that come out of the candlestick.The same word for “flower,” פֶּרַח (perach), appears within the lampstand’s branches. The root for blossoming shows growth woven into the structure that carries the light.
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