What Does Deuteronomy 3:11 Mean in the King James?
For only Og king of Bashan remained of the remnant of giants; behold, his bedstead was a bedstead of iron; is it not in Rabbath of the children of Ammon? nine cubits was the length thereof, and four cubits the breadth of it, after the cubit of a man.
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 passage makes survival tangible by measuring the object associated with its sole survivor.
THE MEANING
You encounter one survivor, and the verse gives his scale through an iron bedstead measured at nine cubits by four. Its location in Rabbath makes the object part of a visible record, holding the figure as both a remnant and a measurable presence. The word “remained” carries the sense of what is left over.
THE ROOT
נִשְׁאַר
nish'ar
GROWS FROM
שאר
sha'ar
Remain; be left over.
The Hebrew word for “remained” grows from the same root as words for a remainder or remnant. The verse names Og not only by who he is, but by what is left: the one remaining from the Rephaim.
ALSO GROWS
she'ar: Remainder; what is left.
שְׁאָר
This branch makes the verse’s “remained” part of a wider idea: a survivor is what remains from a diminished whole.
she'erit: Remnant; surviving portion.
שְׁאֵרִית
This branch carries the same root into the word “remnant,” linking Og’s survival to the remainder he survives from.
THE PATTERN
A remnant makes survival visible after a larger whole has been reduced.
And it shall come to pass in that day, that the remnant of Israel, and such as are escaped of the house of Jacob, shall no more again stay upon him that smote them; but shall stay upon the LORD, the Holy One of Israel, in truth.And the remnant that is escaped of the house of Judah shall yet again take root downward, and bear fruit upward.Even so then at this present time also there is a remnant according to the election of grace.THE THREAD
And God sent me before you to preserve you a posterity in the earth, and to save your lives by a great deliverance.The word translated “posterity” is שְׁאֵרִית (she’erit), “remnant,” from the same root שאר (sha’ar), “remain; be left over,” as “remained” here. Genesis makes the remnant something preserved in the land; Deuteronomy shows the word’s other face in the one who is left from a people.
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