What Does 2 Samuel 19:16 Mean in the King James?
And Shimei the son of Gera, a Benjamite, which was of Bahurim, hasted and came down with the men of Judah to meet king David.
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 one Shimei hurries down to meet is King David, whose name grows from “beloved”, so the encounter joins kingship with intimacy.
THE MEANING
You stand inside a moment of approach: haste carries a person down into a meeting. David’s name carries the nature of the beloved, so the figure you meet holds authority and intimacy together.
THE ROOT
דָּוִד
Dāwīd
GROWS FROM
ד־ו־ד
D-W-D
Beloved; love or affection.
The name David grows from דּוֹד (dod), “beloved.” The one being met carries belovedness in his name, holding intimacy inside the title “king.”
ALSO GROWS
dod: Beloved; also uncle.
דּוֹד
This root meaning is carried in David’s name, giving the king’s arrival a relational dimension.
dodim: Loves or expressions of affection.
דּוֹדִים
The same root names affection, echoing the beloved nature carried by David’s name.
וַיֵּרֶד
wayyēred
GROWS FROM
י־ר־ד
Y-R-D
To descend or go down.
“came down” in this verse is wayyēred. The Hebrew keeps the downward motion visible: Shimei does not merely arrive but comes down to meet the king. The same root appears in the name Jordan, traditionally understood as “the descender.”
ALSO GROWS
yored: One who descends; descending.
יוֹרֵד
It makes the downward movement in Shimei’s approach part of the root’s living sense.
Yarden: Jordan; traditionally, “the descender.”
יַרְדֵּן
The river’s name carries the same movement downward that the verse gives to the approach.
THE PATTERN
When the awaited one arrives, meeting him takes the form of movement toward him.
And Shimei the son of Gera, a Benjamite, which was of Bahurim, hasted and came down with the men of Judah to meet king David.And at midnight there was a cry made, Behold, the bridegroom cometh; go ye out to meet him.Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.THE THREAD
His mouth is most sweet: yea, he is altogether lovely. This is my beloved, and this is my friend, O daughters of Jerusalem.David’s name carries דּוֹד (dod, “beloved”), and Song of Solomon 5:16 uses the same root in דּוֹדִי (dodi, “my beloved”). That shared root lets “King David” resonate with belovedness as Shimei comes to meet him.
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