What Does Genesis 22:1 Mean in the King James?
And it came to pass after these things, that God did tempt Abraham, and said unto him, Abraham: and he said, Behold, here I am.
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
Abraham’s הִנֵּנִי (hineni, “behold me; here I am”) makes the test open with presence before its demand is revealed.
THE MEANING
This verse meets you at the moment of being called into an unknown test: its full shape is not yet stated. Abraham’s הִנֵּנִי (hineni, “behold me; here I am”) is a response of presence. The test brings a response into view; it does not manufacture what is already there.
THE ROOT
נִסָּה
nissah
GROWS FROM
נסה
nasah
To test, try, or prove.
“did tempt” in this verse is nissah. The Hebrew verb נִסָּה (nissah) comes from נסה (nasah), “to test, try, prove.” The root adds the sense of an examination that brings a response into view. Abraham answers before the next instruction is given.
ALSO GROWS
Massah: Testing; a trial.
מַסָּה
Exodus 17:7 connects this name with the Israelites testing the LORD, showing the same root can name the testing itself.
menasseh: One who tests.
מְנַסֶּה
Deuteronomy 13:3 uses this form for the LORD testing the people, echoing the testing named in Abraham’s story.
THE PATTERN
Testing brings what is within a person into view through their response.
And thou shalt remember all the way which the LORD thy God led thee these forty years in the wilderness, to humble thee, and to prove thee, to know what was in thine heart, whether thou wouldest keep his commandments, or no.And Moses said unto the people, Fear not: for God is come to prove you, and that his fear may be before your faces, that ye sin not.That the trial of your faith, being much more precious than of gold that perisheth, though it be tried with fire, might be found unto praise and honour and glory at the appearing of Jesus Christ:THE THREAD
And thou shalt remember all the way which the LORD thy God led thee these forty years in the wilderness, to humble thee, and to prove thee, to know what was in thine heart, whether thou wouldest keep his commandments, or no.Genesis uses נִסָּה (nissah), from נסה (nasah, “test, prove”); Deuteronomy uses the same root in “to prove thee.” Deuteronomy makes explicit what Genesis leaves unstated: the test brings what is in the heart into view.
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