What Does 2 Chronicles 9:17 Mean in the King James?
Moreover the king made a great throne of ivory, and overlaid it with pure 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 Hebrew word translated “ivory” is literally “tooth,” from the sharpening family: beneath the gold, the throne is made from hard, pointed material.
THE MEANING
Rule appears here as a made seat: a great throne shaped from tooth and surfaced in pure gold. The verse keeps the material’s animal origin beneath the polished image, so splendor has a body beneath its surface. That relationship is legible now wherever authority takes visible form.
THE ROOT
שֵׁן
shen
GROWS FROM
שׁנן
shanan
Sharpen; the word for tooth carries the image of a sharp point.
The Hebrew word behind “ivory” is literally “tooth,” and tooth belongs to a root of sharpening. The throne’s material carries the image of something hard and pointed, an animal’s tusk enlarged into royal furniture.
ALSO GROWS
shen: Tooth; also ivory
שֵׁן
The throne’s ivory is named for the tooth from which the material comes.
shennunim: Sharp or sharpened
שְׁנוּנִים
Isaiah uses this related form for arrows, preserving the tooth’s hidden sharpness in the word family.
veshinnantam: You shall teach them diligently; literally, sharpen them
וְשִׁנַּנְתָּם
The same root carries sharpening into the act of making words incisive and memorable.
טָהוֹר
tahor
GROWS FROM
טהר
ṭ-h-r
Be clean or pure; become clean.
“Pure” belongs to a root that also names the act of cleansing. The gold’s quality is expressed as cleanness, joining what the material is with the state of being made clear of impurity.
ALSO GROWS
tiher: Cleanse or purify
טִהֵר
The verbal form shows purity as a condition that can be brought about.
tohorah: Cleanness or purification
טָהֳרָה
This related noun names the state of cleanness that “pure” describes.
THE PATTERN
A throne makes rule visible through a seat whose materials and surface carry its splendor.
Moreover the king made a great throne of ivory, and overlaid it with the best gold.Thy throne, O God, is for ever and ever: the sceptre of thy kingdom is a right sceptre.And immediately I was in the spirit: and, behold, a throne was set in heaven, and one sat on the throne.THE THREAD
Whose arrows are sharp, and all their bows bent, their horses’ hoofs shall be counted like flint, and their wheels like a whirlwind:Isaiah calls the arrows שְׁנוּנִים (shennunim), “sharp,” from the same sharpening family connected to שֵׁן (shen), “tooth,” in the word for ivory. The connection lets the throne’s pale material retain the tooth’s hidden edge beneath the gold surface.
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