What Does Genesis 45:23 Mean in the King James?
And to his father he sent after this manner; ten asses laden with the good things of Egypt, and ten she asses laden with corn and bread and meat for his father by the way.
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 same verb that names a sending makes abundance leave its source and become sustenance along the way.
THE MEANING
Care arrives in tangible form: grain, bread, and provisions are sent to the father for his journey. What is plentiful in one place becomes nourishment for someone else as it travels.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
It undoes the belief that the journey must be faced unsupported: provisions are sent for the road.
THE ROOT
שָׁלַח
shalach
GROWS FROM
שׁ־ל־ח
sh-l-ḥ
Send, send forth; in some contexts, release or let go.
The verb שָׁלַח (shalach, “send”) makes the good of Egypt move outward toward the father. Its branches name both a dispatch and waters called שִׁלֹחַ (Shiloach, “sent”), showing sending as movement that carries something toward a need.
ALSO GROWS
mishloach: Sending, dispatch
מִשְׁלוֹחַ
In Esther 9:19 it names the sending of portions; here, the goods are dispatched provision rather than abundance left at its source.
Shiloach: Sent; the name of the waters of Shiloah
שִׁלֹחַ
Isaiah 8:6 names the waters of Shiloah, and John 9:7 gives the pool’s name as Σιλωάμ (Siloam, “Sent”), where washing precedes restored sight. What is sent reaches a bodily need.
THE PATTERN
Provision meets the road as concrete food, not as an abstraction.
Then said the LORD unto Moses, Behold, I will rain bread from heaven for you; and the people shall go out and gather a certain rate every day, that I may prove them, whether they will walk in my law, or no.And the angel of the LORD came again the second time, and touched him, and said, Arise and eat; because the journey is too great for thee.Give us this day our daily bread.THE THREAD
And said unto him, Go, wash in the pool of Siloam, (which is by interpretation, Sent.) He went his way therefore, and washed, and came seeing.Genesis uses שָׁלַח (shalach, “send”) for provisions sent toward a father; John identifies Σιλωάμ (Siloam, “Sent”) as the pool where washing precedes sight. The shared language makes what is sent arrive at a human need, whether sustenance for the road or restored seeing.
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