What Does Isaiah 60:8 Mean in the King James?
Who are these that fly as a cloud, and as the doves to their windows?
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 verse pictures one vast arrival and many intimate homecomings in the same movement.
THE MEANING
The question makes arrival visible before it explains it: a cloudlike sweep approaches, while each dove finds its own opening. What looks like one great movement is also many distinct returns toward shelter.
THE ROOT
תְּעוּפֶינָה
təʿūp̄ênāh
GROWS FROM
עוף
ʿ-w-p̄
To fly or move through the air; the same root also names a flying creature.
“fly” in this verse is təʿūp̄ênāh. The verb and the noun for a flying creature share the same seed: flight is not merely what the doves do; it is what they are. The verse holds two scales in one motion, a cloudlike arrival and individual lives moving toward an opening.
ALSO GROWS
ʿûp̄: To fly, soar
עוּף
This is the movement pictured in the verse: an arrival carried through the air.
ʿôp̄: A flying creature, bird
עוֹף
The noun shows flight as part of the creature’s nature, joining the doves’ identity to their movement.
THE PATTERN
The scattered and restless are gathered toward shelter, where many arrivals become a shared homecoming.
But the dove found no rest for the sole of her foot, and she returned unto him into the ark, for the waters were on the face of the whole earth: then he put forth his hand, and took her, and pulled her in unto him into the ark.They shall tremble as a bird out of Egypt, and as a dove out of the land of Assyria: and I will place them in their houses, saith the LORD.And then shall he send his angels, and shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from the uttermost part of the earth to the uttermost part of heaven.THE THREAD
And God said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life, and fowl that may fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven.The Hebrew root עוף (ʿ-w-p̄), meaning to fly, appears in both verses: one form names the act of flying, another the flying creature. Genesis places flight in the creature’s nature; Isaiah shows that same movement carrying doves toward an opening.
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