What Does Exodus 9:32 Mean in the King James?
But the wheat and the rie were not smitten: for they were not grown up.
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 blow has limits: the grain still late in its growth remains standing.
THE MEANING
The verse names an uneven reach of destruction: the wheat and rye remain unstruck while other crops are struck, because their growth is still late. Devastation and surviving growth stand in the same frame.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
It undoes the belief that when something around you is struck, all growth is already lost: this verse still sees grain standing.
THE ROOT
אֲפִילֹת
ʾăphîlōt
GROWS FROM
אפל
Darkness, or being dark; in this grain word, late-ripening.
The word translated “not grown up” means late or late-ripening. Its connection to the אפל word-family for darkness gives that lateness an image of what is not yet fully brought into the light.
ALSO GROWS
ʾōphel: Darkness, gloom
אֹפֶל
This noun shares the darkness word-family, echoing the late grain’s not-yet-visible fullness.
ʾăphēlāh: Darkness, obscurity
אֲפֵלָה
This form also carries the root’s sense of darkness, enriching the image of growth that has not yet come fully into view.
נֻכּוּ
nukkû
GROWS FROM
נכה
To strike or smite; to inflict a blow.
The word for being smitten belongs to the same strike-family as מַכָּה, a blow or plague. The verse is precise: the hail’s blow does not land on this grain, even as it strikes other crops.
ALSO GROWS
makkāh: A blow, stroke, or plague
מַכָּה
This noun names the blow itself, linking the grain’s being struck to the Bible’s language for a plague.
mukkēh: Stricken, afflicted
מֻכֶּה
This form describes one who receives the blow, making clear that the root names an impact that lands on some and passes over others.
THE PATTERN
A real blow does not necessarily become total destruction; Scripture names what survives alongside what is struck.
A bruised reed shall he not break, and the smoking flax shall he not quench: he shall bring forth judgment unto truth.A thousand shall fall at thy side, and ten thousand at thy right hand; but it shall not come nigh thee.Persecuted, but not forsaken; cast down, but not destroyed;THE THREAD
And the flax and the barley was smitten: for the barley was in the ear, and the flax was bolled.“Smitten” here uses the same root, נכה (n-k-h), as the next verse’s “not smitten.” The flax and barley are struck at their stage of growth; the late grain stands beside them, showing where the blow stops.
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