What Does 2 Kings 7:11 Mean in the King James?
And he called the porters; and they told it to the king’s house within.
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
A discovery outside the walls reaches the center when someone carries the report through the gate.
THE MEANING
News from beyond the king’s house enters through the people at its threshold. The gatekeepers hear the call and carry the report inside, where it can be heard by those in power.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
The center is sealed off from what happens at the edges.
THE ROOT
וַיַּגִּידוּ
wayyaggidu
GROWS FROM
נגד
n-g-d
To make known, bringing something into view or setting it before someone.
The word translated “told” carries the sense of making something known by placing it before another. The report does not stay at the gate: it is brought into the king’s house and made present to those within.
ALSO GROWS
nagid: Leader, one set before others.
נָגִיד
The shared root links what is brought before someone with a person who stands before others.
neged: Before, opposite, in front of.
נֶגֶד
This branch makes the root’s spatial image visible: to tell is to place something before another’s attention.
וַיִּקְרָא
vayyiqra
GROWS FROM
קרא
q-r-ʾ
To call, summon, or proclaim.
“called” in this verse is vayyiqra. The call gathers the gatekeepers into the movement of the report. The same root also reaches public reading and assembly, where a call becomes something shared and heard.
ALSO GROWS
miqra: A convocation or public reading.
מִקְרָא
A call can gather people to hear what is being proclaimed.
qeri’ah: A calling or reading aloud.
קְרִיאָה
The spoken call at the gate belongs to the same root as words read aloud for others to hear.
THE PATTERN
News discovered beyond a boundary enters shared life when a witness carries it inward.
Then they said one to another, We do not well: this day is a day of good tidings, and we hold our peace: if we tarry till the morning light, some mischief will come upon us: now therefore come, that we may go and tell the king’s household.And when she knew Peter’s voice, she opened not the gate for gladness, but ran in, and told how Peter stood before the gate.Come, see a man, which told me all things that ever I did: is not this the Christ?THE THREAD
Then they said one to another, We do not well: this day is a day of good tidings, and we hold our peace: if we tarry till the morning light, some mischief will come upon us: now therefore come, that we may go and tell the king’s household.The phrase “tell the king’s household” uses the same נגד (n-g-d), “make known,” root as “told” in verse 11. Verse 9 is the decision to bring the news forward; verse 11 shows it crossing the threshold into the king’s house.
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