What Does Genesis 24:58 Mean in the King James?

And they called Rebekah, and said unto her, Wilt thou go with this man? And she said, I will go.

Genesis 24:58 · KJV

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

In Hebrew, “I will go” comes from the root for walking and going: her answer already carries her onto the road.

THE MEANING

You stand at a threshold where the question is whether your life will move along a new road. Rebekah’s answer is plain: “I will go.” A possible future becomes a direction as soon as she speaks.

THE ROOT

הֲתֵלְכִי

hatelḵî

GROWS FROM

הלך

To walk, go, or proceed.

The question and answer both use forms of ⁨הלך⁩: “Will you go?” and “I will go.” The root holds bodily going and walking a path together, so her answer is already movement toward a future.

ALSO GROWS

wayyelekh: He went.

וַיֵּלֶךְ

This same root describes Abram going in Genesis 12:4, where a spoken call becomes a journey.

telekhu: You will walk or go.

תֵּלֵכוּ

In Leviticus 26:3, this form describes walking in a way; the root can hold both literal movement and the course a life takes.

THE PATTERN

A threshold becomes a lived future when the answer takes the form of going.

So Abram departed, as the LORD had spoken unto him; and Lot went with him: and Abram was seventy and five years old when he departed out of Haran.

Genesis 12:4 · KJVAbram’s departure uses the same root for going, turning a spoken call into movement along a new road.

And Ruth said, Intreat me not to leave thee, or to return from following after thee: for whither thou goest, I will go; and where thou lodgest, I will lodge: thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God:

Ruth 1:16 · KJVRuth answers a threshold with the same root, making “I will go” a commitment to a shared path.

And he trembling and astonished said, Lord, what wilt thou have me to do? And the Lord said unto him, Arise, and go into the city, and it shall be told thee what thou must do.

Acts 9:6 · KJVThe answer to a life’s turning point takes the concrete form of going somewhere, before the whole path is known.

THE THREAD

And Ruth said, Intreat me not to leave thee, or to return from following after thee: for whither thou goest, I will go; and where thou lodgest, I will lodge: thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God:

Ruth 1:16 · KJV

Ruth’s “I will go” uses the same Hebrew root, ⁨הלך⁩, as Rebekah’s answer. In both verses, the root makes going more than an idea: it is a path entered through a spoken choice.

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