What Does Jeremiah 52:23 Mean in the King James?
And there were ninety and six pomegranates on a side; and all the pomegranates upon the network were an hundred round about.
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
Ninety-six are counted from one side, but the network holds one hundred all around: what your angle cannot show still belongs to the whole.
THE MEANING
You see ninety-six from one side, while the count around the whole network is one hundred. The four beyond that view are not missing; the full circle exceeds the face you can see.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
The verse loosens the belief that what falls outside your view falls outside the whole. The side count is real, but it is not the full count.
THE ROOT
רוּחָה
ruachah
GROWS FROM
ר־ו־ח
Moving air: wind or breath; by extension, a direction or side.
The KJV’s “side” sounds like bare geometry, but its Hebrew comes from ruach, the word that can mean breath, wind, or direction. The ninety-six are counted by a facing; “all around” then gives the full circumference, naming a limited view without mistaking it for the whole.
ALSO GROWS
wind: Moving air.
רוּחַ
The side count is measured by direction, and Hebrew uses the same word that names wind.
breath: The breath of life.
רוּחַ
The word translated “side” belongs to the same root that names breath, holding orientation and breath within one Hebrew word.
THE PATTERN
A face of the whole can be counted without exhausting what encircles it.
And four hundred pomegranates for the two networks, even two rows of pomegranates for one network, to cover the two bowls of the chapiters that were upon the pillars;And beneath upon the hem of it thou shalt make pomegranates of blue, and of purple, and of scarlet, round about the hem thereof; and bells of gold between them round about:From whom the whole body fitly joined together and compacted by that which every joint supplieth, according to the effectual working in the measure of every part, maketh increase of the body unto the edifying of itself in love.THE THREAD
And four hundred pomegranates for the two networks, even two rows of pomegranates for one network, to cover the two bowls of the chapiters that were upon the pillars;Kings describes the same pomegranates arranged in rows on networks covering the pillar capitals. Read beside Jeremiah, the one-sided count is a view within a larger architectural circuit, while the full count reaches all around.
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