What Does Job 6:19 Mean in the King James?
The troops of Tema looked, the companies of Sheba waited for them.
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 Hebrew word translated “waited” also means “hoped,” so this is expectation turned toward an arrival.
THE MEANING
Your attention gathers around what you expect to arrive: eyes look, and hope waits. The verse gives that expectation a shape while leaving the arrival itself unresolved.
THE ROOT
קִוּוּ
qivvû
GROWS FROM
קוה
To wait for, look for, or hope for.
“waited” in this verse is qivvû. The Hebrew word here is not mere delay: qavah also names hope, waiting oriented toward what is expected. Its related noun tiqvah means hope or expectation and also a cord, giving expectation the image of a line held toward what has not yet arrived.
ALSO GROWS
qivvah: Waited for; hoped for.
קִוָּה
This is the same verb family behind the companies’ waiting, joining their delay to expectation.
tiqvah: Hope or expectation; also a cord or line.
תִּקְוָה
The shared root links hope with a cord: expectation reaches toward what is still to come.
THE PATTERN
Hope is waiting with attention fixed on what has not yet arrived.
I have waited for thy salvation, O LORD.But they that wait upon the LORD shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint.But if we hope for that we see not, then do we with patience wait for it.THE THREAD
I have waited for thy salvation, O LORD.The word translated “waited” in both verses comes from קוה (qavah), meaning to wait or hope for. Genesis names deliverance as the object of that expectation, giving Job’s watchful waiting a direction.
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