What Does Judges 6:20 Mean in the King James?
And the angel of God said unto him, Take the flesh and the unleavened cakes, and lay them upon this rock, and pour out the broth. And he did so.
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 meal rests on the rock and its broth is poured out there, making the stone a threshold where ordinary provision becomes a sign.
THE MEANING
What you hold as provision can be set down before God; here, food comes to rest on rock and broth is poured out over it. The next verse shows the stone answering with fire, so ordinary material becomes the place where divine presence is revealed.
THE ROOT
שְׁפֹךְ
shefokh
GROWS FROM
שׁפך
sh-p-kh
to pour out, spill, or shed
“pour out” in this verse is shefokh. This verb also describes pouring out the heart: the broth’s outpouring echoes an inner life laid open before God. One root holds both the physical liquid and the inward release.
ALSO GROWS
shafakh lev: pour out the heart
שפך לב
Psalm 62:8 uses the same root for opening the heart before God, linking this poured broth with inward release.
shafakh dam: shed blood; pour out blood
שפך דם
The root can describe life poured out, showing that its range extends from a vessel’s contents to what is given up.
הַנַּח
hanach
GROWS FROM
נוח
n-w-ḥ
to rest or settle; in this form, to cause to rest or set down
“lay” in this verse is hanach. The instruction carries the sense of bringing the food to rest on the rock. The same root grows into words for rest and a resting place, so the stone is where the offering settles before the encounter unfolds.
ALSO GROWS
nuach: rest, settle
נוּחַ
This basic motion is present in the instruction: the food is brought to rest on the rock.
menuchah: resting place
מְנוּחָה
The related noun evokes a place of rest; here the rock receives the meal and becomes the site of encounter.
THE PATTERN
A meal or offering becomes a meeting place where divine presence is revealed.
Then the angel of the LORD put forth the end of the staff that was in his hand, and touched the flesh and the unleavened cakes; and there rose up fire out of the rock, and consumed the flesh and the unleavened cakes. Then the angel of the LORD departed out of his sight.For it came to pass, when the flame went up toward heaven from off the altar, that the angel of the LORD ascended in the flame of the altar. And Manoah and his wife looked on it, and fell on their faces to the ground.And it came to pass, as he sat at meat with them, he took bread, and blessed it, and brake, and gave to them. And their eyes were opened, and they knew him; and he vanished out of their sight.THE THREAD
Trust in him at all times; ye people, pour out your heart before him: God is a refuge for us. Selah.The broth’s verb is shaphakh (שׁפך), “pour out”; Psalm 62:8 uses the same root for pouring out the heart. The root joins the meal poured onto the rock with the inner life opened before God.
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