What Does Genesis 26:30 Mean in the King James?

And he made them a feast, and they did eat and drink.

Genesis 26:30 · 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

The Hebrew word for “feast” grows from the word for “drink,” so this shared table makes peace something they take in together.

THE MEANING

Agreement becomes something the body can receive: food is eaten, drink is shared, and people take their place at one table. The verse speaks now wherever a bond becomes tangible through shared provision.

THE ROOT

מִשְׁתֶּה

mishteh

GROWS FROM

שתה

To drink

The word translated “feast” is formed from the root for drinking; the meal is named through one of its acts of shared taking-in. The same root appears again when they “drink,” binding the feast and their participation in it into one word-family.

ALSO GROWS

shatah: To drink

שָׁתָה

This verb is the seed from which “feast” grows, revealing the drinking within the banquet.

yishtu: They drink

יִשְׁתּוּ

The verse repeats the root in the guests’ action: the feast is not only prepared; they take part in it.

THE PATTERN

Shared eating and drinking make a bond visible through common participation.

Then Jacob offered sacrifice upon the mount, and called his brethren to eat bread: and they did eat bread, and tarried all night in the mount.

Genesis 31:54 · KJVEating together gives a newly made bond a shared, bodily form.

And upon the nobles of the children of Israel he laid not his hand: also they saw God, and did eat and drink.

Exodus 24:11 · KJVEating and drinking accompany a moment when a covenant bond is made visible.

And they, continuing daily with one accord in the temple, and breaking bread from house to house, did eat their meat with gladness and singleness of heart,

Acts 2:46 · KJVA shared table turns unity into daily participation across households.

THE THREAD

And upon the nobles of the children of Israel he laid not his hand: also they saw God, and did eat and drink.

Exodus 24:11 · KJV

The Hebrew verb for “they drank” comes from the same root as the “feast” in Genesis 26:30. In both verses, eating and drinking give a bond a tangible place at the table.

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