What Does Judges 6:38 Mean in the King James?
And it was so: for he rose up early on the morrow, and thrust the fleece together, and wringed the dew out of the fleece, a bowl full of water.
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 fleece already holds the sign; squeezing makes what it has received visible as a bowlful.
THE MEANING
You see the dew gathered in the fleece become measurable water when the wool is squeezed. The sign comes into view through what has already collected there.
THE ROOT
גִּזָּה
gizzāh
GROWS FROM
גזז
g-z-z
to shear, cut off wool
The Hebrew word for fleece belongs to the verb for shearing: the sign’s surface is wool cut away from the animal. When that cut covering is squeezed, the dew it has received becomes visible as a bowlful.
ALSO GROWS
gāzaz: to shear or cut off wool
גָּזַז
It names the action that produces the fleece serving as the sign’s surface.
gēz: fleece or wool taken by shearing
גֵּז
It is the same cut wool described in Job 31:20 as a covering that warms someone.
THE PATTERN
Life-giving provision arrives quietly, then becomes visible in what receives it.
And when the dew that lay was gone up, behold, upon the face of the wilderness there lay a small round thing, as small as the hoar frost on the ground.I will be as the dew unto Israel: he shall grow as the lily, and cast forth his roots as Lebanon.That ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven: for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust.THE THREAD
If his loins have not blessed me, and if he were not warmed with the fleece of my sheep;The Hebrew word גֵּז (gēz, fleece) shares the root גזז (gāzaz, to shear) with the fleece in this verse. In Job, the sheared wool warms someone; here, the same kind of cut covering receives dew and releases it as water.
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