What Does Job 42:14 Mean in the King James?
And he called the name of the first, Jemima; and the name of the second, Kezia; and the name of the third, Keren-happuch.
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
These names make restoration perceptible: one carries the fragrance of cassia, and another the radiance of adornment.
THE MEANING
In you, restoration is more than survival: it takes names that make beauty perceptible. Jemimah (יְמִימָה, yĕmîmāh) is often glossed “dove,” though its derivation is uncertain; Kezia means cassia, and Keren-happuch means a horn of eye-paint.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
The verse undoes the belief that devastation can name a life only by what it has lost: here, the names speak of fragrance and adornment.
THE ROOT
קֶרֶן הַפּוּךְ
qeren happûkh
GROWS FROM
ק־ר־ן
q-r-n
To project like a horn or send out rays.
Keren-happuch means a horn of eye-paint: the horn is the vessel holding adornment. The root also carries the image of rays projecting outward, bringing adornment and radiance together in the name.
ALSO GROWS
qeren: Horn; a projecting point or ray.
קֶרֶן
The horn in the name is a vessel for eye-paint, making restored beauty something visible.
qāran: To shine or emit rays.
קָרַן
This related form carries the sense of radiance, as when Moses’ face shines in Exodus 34:29.
קְצִיעָה
qĕṣîʿāh
GROWS FROM
ק־צ־ע
q-ts-ʿ
To cut or strip off; the name is commonly connected with this root.
Kezia is cassia, an aromatic spice. The word is commonly linked to stripping or cutting: what is taken from the plant becomes fragrance, a small image of beauty uncovered through removal.
ALSO GROWS
qĕṣîʿāh: Cassia, an aromatic spice.
קְצִיעָה
A restored name carries a scent, turning beauty into something the senses can recognize.
qāṣaʿ: To cut or strip off.
קָצַע
The likely link between the verb and the spice holds removal and fragrance in one word-family.
THE PATTERN
What is restored becomes perceptible as beauty, radiance, or fragrance.
To appoint unto them that mourn in Zion, to give unto them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness; that they might be called trees of righteousness, the planting of the LORD, that he might be glorified.All thy garments smell of myrrh, and aloes, and cassia, out of the ivory palaces, whereby they have made thee glad.Now thanks be unto God, which always causeth us to triumph in Christ, and maketh manifest the savour of his knowledge by us in every place.THE THREAD
All thy garments smell of myrrh, and aloes, and cassia, out of the ivory palaces, whereby they have made thee glad.Kezia is named with the Hebrew word for cassia, the same word Psalm 45:8 places among fragrant garments. The shared word lets the name in Job open into a scent: restored beauty is something you can perceive.
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