What Does Deuteronomy 33:14 Mean in the King James?
And for the precious fruits brought forth by the sun, and for the precious things put forth by the moon,
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 Hebrew repeats one word for “precious” where English gives you “fruits” and “things,” joining both yields into one abundance.
THE MEANING
The verse pictures provision arriving through the sun’s ripening and the moon-marked months. One Hebrew word, מֶגֶד (meged, precious yield), names both, holding these different cycles together as one field of abundance.
THE ROOT
מֶגֶד
meged
GROWS FROM
מגד
A precious or choice thing; valuable produce.
“precious fruits / precious things” in this verse is meged. The Hebrew repeats מֶגֶד (meged) before both halves, while the KJV varies the phrase as “fruits” and “things.” The same word gathers the sun’s produce and the months’ yield into one kind of precious abundance.
ALSO GROWS
meged: A precious or choice thing; produce.
מֶגֶד
This is the word repeated for both the sun’s yield and the months’ yield.
migdannot: Precious gifts or choice things.
מַגְדָּנוֹת
The same root can name valuable gifts, linking the harvest here with abundance offered as a gift (Genesis 24:53).
תְּבוּאַת
tevu’at
GROWS FROM
בוא
To come or enter.
“produce / fruits brought forth” in this verse is tevu’at. The word for produce belongs to the root בוא (bo’, come or enter): a harvest is what comes in. That shade lets the verse present abundance as an arrival within the sun’s and months’ cycles.
ALSO GROWS
bo’: To come or enter.
בּוֹא
This is the root verb beneath the word for produce.
tevu’ah: Produce, yield, or income.
תְּבוּאָה
The word names what comes in as a yield, illuminating how the verse pictures provision arriving through recurring cycles.
THE PATTERN
Provision arrives through recurring rhythms of light and season.
While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.He appointed the moon for seasons: the sun knoweth his going down.That ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven: for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust.THE THREAD
And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years:This verse shows the structure behind the paired yields: the sun and moon mark seasons, days, and years. Deuteronomy’s precious produce belongs to that recurring measure of time.
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