What Does Genesis 24:28 Mean in the King James?
And the damsel ran, and told them of her mother’s house these things.
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 root behind “told” also carries the sense of making something known, as the young woman brings her encounter into view for her mother’s household.
THE MEANING
An encounter moves from one person’s experience into the shared life of a household. The young woman’s quick report carries what has happened across the threshold into her mother’s home, where others can know it too.
THE ROOT
וַתַּגֵּד
vattagged
GROWS FROM
נגד
n-g-d
To make known, declare, or bring something before another.
“told” in this verse is vattagged. The verb carries more than the passing of words: it makes the matter known, placing it before the household. Its root also appears in neged, “in front of” or “opposite,” and nagid, “leader”; the shared family links telling with what is brought forward.
ALSO GROWS
neged: In front of, opposite, or corresponding to.
נֶגֶד
It echoes the way telling brings something into view before others.
nagid: A leader or ruler, one who leads.
נָגִיד
This branch suggests the sense of going before; here, the report leads the encounter into the household’s shared awareness.
THE PATTERN
What one person has encountered becomes shared knowledge as the witness carries it into a community.
And Moses told his father in law all that the LORD had done unto Pharaoh and to the Egyptians for Israel’s sake, and all the travail that had come upon them by the way, and how the LORD delivered them.Come, see a man, which told me all things that ever I did: is not this the Christ?For we can not but speak the things which we have seen and heard.THE THREAD
And Moses went up unto God, and the LORD called unto him out of the mountain, saying, Thus shalt thou say to the house of Jacob, and tell the children of Israel;The same Hebrew root, נגד (n-g-d), meaning “to make known” or “declare,” appears in both verses as “told.” Here the young woman carries her report into her mother’s house; there, Moses carries a message to the house of Jacob and the children of Israel.
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