What Does Genesis 19:10 Mean in the King James?
But the men put forth their hand, and pulled Lot into the house to them, and shut to the door.
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
Rescue takes shape as a hand sent out to bring someone in, and a door closed to keep danger out.
THE MEANING
Protection takes a physical shape: a hand reaches across the threshold and draws the threatened person inside, then the door closes between him and the crowd. The verse holds both movements together, welcome in, danger out.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
A closed door always means abandonment; here, closing is the act that preserves refuge.
THE ROOT
וַיִּשְׁלְחוּ
vayyishlechu
GROWS FROM
שלח
To send out, extend, or release.
“put forth” in this verse is vayyishlechu. English hears a hand stretching; Hebrew describes it as sent forth, using the same root that names sending and one who is sent. The hand crosses the threshold toward Lot, Lot is brought inside, and the door then closes.
ALSO GROWS
mishloaḥ: A sending or dispatch.
מִשְׁלוֹחַ
The same root names the outward movement that reaches Lot.
shaliaḥ: A messenger, one who is sent.
שָׁלִיחַ
The hand here acts as an extension sent outward to bring Lot into shelter.
THE PATTERN
A boundary can mark the line that keeps danger outside and refuge intact.
And they that went in, went in male and female of all flesh, as God had commanded him: and the LORD shut him in.For the LORD will pass through to smite the Egyptians; and when he seeth the blood upon the lintel, and on the two side posts, the LORD will pass over the door, and will not suffer the destroyer to come in unto your houses to smite you.I am the door: by me if any man enter in, he shall be saved, and shall go in and out, and find pasture.THE THREAD
And the angel of the LORD called unto him out of heaven, and said, Abraham, Abraham: and he said, Here am I.“Lay not thine hand” uses the same shalach-plus-hand construction as “put forth their hand” here. In this verse, the sent hand draws Lot into shelter; in Genesis 22, the hand is stopped before it touches Isaac.
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