What Does Deuteronomy 1:31 Mean in the King James?
And in the wilderness, where thou hast seen how that the LORD thy God bare thee, as a man doth bear his son, in all the way that ye went, until ye came into this place.
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 wilderness is where you see that the strength carrying you has been there for the whole way.
THE MEANING
God’s care carries you through the wilderness, and the whole way rests inside that care. You are borne as a son is borne, all the way to this place. Reaching here is itself evidence of the strength sustaining you.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
The wilderness means you are alone and must carry yourself through.
THE ROOT
נְשָׂאֲךָ
nesa'akha
GROWS FROM
נָשָׂא
nasa
to lift, carry, or bear
“bare” in this verse is nesa'akha. The verse uses the root נָשָׂא (nasa, to carry) for God bearing you through the wilderness. This root also names the burden itself and the one lifted up, so the image holds both the weight being carried and the strength that carries it.
ALSO GROWS
massa: burden, load
מַשָּׂא
The same root names what is carried; the verse pictures God taking the journey’s weight upon himself.
nasi: prince, leader; one elevated
נָשִׂיא
This branch carries the sense of being lifted up, echoing the verse’s image of a child raised and borne by another.
THE PATTERN
God’s care is pictured as carrying people through what they cannot cross by their own strength.
Ye have seen what I did unto the Egyptians, and how I bare you on eagles’ wings, and brought you unto myself.And even to your old age I am he; and even to hoar hairs will I carry you: I have made, and I will bear; even I will carry, and will deliver you.Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.THE THREAD
Ye have seen what I did unto the Egyptians, and how I bare you on eagles’ wings, and brought you unto myself.Exodus uses the same Hebrew root נָשָׂא (nasa, to carry) for being borne on eagles’ wings. Deuteronomy brings that carrying close: the carried people are held like a son, through the whole way.
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