What Does Job 34:1 Mean in the King James?
Furthermore Elihu answered and said,
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 calls speech an answer before it calls it saying: a voice enters through relation.
THE MEANING
This verse catches speech at the moment it begins as response, already in relation to what has come before. Elihu (אֱלִיהוּא, ʾĔlîhûʾ, “My God is he”) carries that relation to God in the speaker’s name.
THE ROOT
וַיַּעַן
wayyaʿan
GROWS FROM
ענה
ענה (ʿānāh): to answer, respond.
The verse pairs וַיַּעַן (wayyaʿan, “he answered”) with וַיֹּאמַר (wayyōʾmar, “he said”), placing response before utterance. The related noun מַעֲנֶה (maʿaneh, “answer, response”) shows that the root can name both the act of answering and the response itself.
ALSO GROWS
maʿaneh: answer, response
מַעֲנֶה
The response itself comes from the same root, keeping the act and what emerges from it in one word family.
ʿanēh: answer!
עֲנֵה
The same root can form a direct call to answer, showing the relational direction already inside the verb.
THE PATTERN
A spoken answer takes shape in relation to what another voice has put into the room.
So shall I have wherewith to answer him that reproacheth me: for I trust in thy word.A soft answer turneth away wrath: but grievous words stir up anger.At that time Jesus answered and said, I thank thee, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because thou hast hid these things from the wise and prudent, and hast revealed them unto babes.THE THREAD
They were amazed, they answered no more: they left off speaking.Job 32:15 uses ענה (ʿānāh, “answer, respond”) when it says they “answered no more.” The same root marks both the voice beginning here and the silence that withholds an answer there.
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