What Does 2 Kings 9:35 Mean in the King James?
And they went to bury her: but they found no more of her than the skull, and the feet, and the palms of her hands.
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 skull left here carries the same word that names Golgotha, the place of a skull.
THE MEANING
You meet the aftermath in blunt pieces: a skull, feet, and palms, with no whole body left to bury. The verse leaves the violence visible and names only what remains.
THE ROOT
הַגֻּלְגֹּלֶת
hagulgoleth
GROWS FROM
גלל
galal
To roll; to roll away.
The Hebrew גֻּלְגֹּלֶת (gulgoleth, “skull”) carries the rounded, rolling sound of גָּלַל (galal, “to roll”). English names the body part, while Hebrew also holds an image of roundness that resurfaces in מְגִלָּה (megillah, “scroll”), a thing rolled.
ALSO GROWS
galal: To roll or roll away.
גָּלַל
This verb is the seed behind the rolling image carried by the Hebrew word for skull.
megillah: A scroll; rolled writing.
מְגִלָּה
The same root names writing in its rolled form, another branch of the rolling image.
רַגְלַיִם
raglayim
GROWS FROM
רגל
ragal
To go on foot; to go about.
The Hebrew רַגְלַיִם (raglayim, “feet”) comes from רֶגֶל (regel, “foot”), a root that also yields מְרַגֵּל (meragel, “one who goes about; spy”). The feet remain as a trace of movement, while the word family links them to going about.
ALSO GROWS
regel: Foot.
רֶגֶל
The plural רַגְלַיִם (raglayim, “feet”) names the bodily part left among the remains.
meragel: One who goes about; spy.
מְרַגֵּל
This branch links the foot to going about, the movement that the remaining feet can only evoke.
THE PATTERN
The mortal body returns to dissolution, and scripture names that ending without disguise.
In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.All go unto one place; all are of the dust, and all turn to dust again.For all flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass. The grass withereth, and the flower thereof falleth away:THE THREAD
And when they were come unto a place called Golgotha, that is to say, a place of a skull,The Hebrew גֻּלְגֹּלֶת (gulgoleth, “skull”) and Aramaic גֻּלְגֹּלְתָּא (gulgolta, “skull”) are cognates. Matthew gives the same meaning in the place-name Golgotha: “a place of a skull.”
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