What Does Numbers 30:10 Mean in the King James?
And if she vowed in her husband’s house, or bound her soul by a bond with an oath;
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 repeats one root for bound and bond, showing a vow as a binding laid over the living self.
THE MEANING
A vow can place the speaker’s living self under an obligation. Here the Hebrew pictures her nefesh (נַפְשָׁהּ, nafshāh, her living soul) with a binding laid over it: the commitment reaches the person, not only a future task.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
The belief that spoken promises leave the speaker untouched dissolves here: the vow is pictured as a binding laid upon the living self.
THE ROOT
אָסְרָה
ʾāsərāh
GROWS FROM
אָסַר
ʾāsar
To bind, tie up, or restrain.
“bound / bond” in this verse is ʾāsərāh. The verb for bound and the noun for bond share the same three-letter root, אָסַר (ʾāsar, bind). The wording makes the bond concrete: what she vows is carried as an obligation by her living soul.
ALSO GROWS
ʾāsîr: A prisoner; one who is bound.
אָסִיר
This branch names a person by the same root’s binding, making the restraint in the vow tangible.
ʾāsūr: Bound, restrained, or prohibited.
אָסוּר
The same root describes a state of restriction, giving the vow the force of a bond that limits what the speaker is free to do.
THE PATTERN
A vow makes speech into an obligation the speaker must carry.
That which is gone out of thy lips thou shalt keep and perform; even a freewill offering, according as thou hast vowed unto the LORD thy God, which thou hast promised with thy mouth.When thou vowest a vow unto God, defer not to pay it; for he hath no pleasure in fools: pay that which thou hast vowed.And when it was day, certain of the Jews banded together, and bound themselves under a curse, saying that they would neither eat nor drink till they had killed Paul.THE THREAD
Which executeth judgment for the oppressed: which giveth food to the hungry. The LORD looseth the prisoners:The Hebrew root אָסַר (ʾāsar, bind) that appears twice here also forms אֲסוּרִים (ʾasūrīm, prisoners) in Psalm 146:7, where the LORD releases them. The same seed names both the bond and those under it, while the verse shows their condition being released.
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