What Does Judges 3:24 Mean in the King James?
When he was gone out, his servants came; and when they saw that, behold, the doors of the parlour were locked, they said, Surely he covereth his feet in his summer chamber.
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
A closed door can make a guess feel like knowledge while leaving the truth unseen.
THE MEANING
The servants see the shut doors and presume the person inside is relieving himself in private. The door gives their assumption a plausible shape, but it shows them only that the room is closed, not what is happening within it.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
A plausible explanation is not the same as a verified one.
THE ROOT
מֵסִיךְ
mesikh
GROWS FROM
סכך
To cover, screen, or shelter.
The Hebrew root behind “covereth” also gives words for a booth and a screen: a cover can conceal, but it can also shelter. Here, the servants treat the idea of covering as an explanation for what lies behind the closed door, though the cover itself does not reveal what is happening.
ALSO GROWS
sukkah: A covered shelter.
סֻכָּה
This branch shows the protective side of the same root that describes the servants’ imagined cover.
masakh: A screen that covers or separates.
מָסָךְ
Like the closed doors, a screen marks a boundary while hiding what is beyond it.
THE PATTERN
A visible sign can invite confident misreading when the reality it seems to explain remains hidden.
But the LORD said unto Samuel, Look not on his countenance, or on the height of his stature; because I have refused him: for the Lord seeth not as man seeth; for man looketh on the outward appearance, but the LORD looketh on the heart.There is a way which seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death.For there is nothing covered, that shall not be revealed; neither hid, that shall not be known.THE THREAD
He shall cover thee with his feathers, and under his wings shalt thou trust: his truth shall be thy shield and buckler.The verb translated “cover” here comes from the same Hebrew root as “covereth” in Judges. In this verse, covering is shelter beneath wings; the shared root shows that a cover may conceal or protect, while context reveals what it means.
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