What Does Numbers 33:29 Mean in the King James?
And they went from Mithcah, and pitched in Hashmonah.
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
Mithcah means “sweetness,” making departure from sweetness one named stage in the journey.
THE MEANING
You meet a journey that moves from Mithcah (מִתְקָה, Mithqah, “sweetness”) to a new encampment. The verse holds departure and settling together: leaving one place and pausing in another are both part of the same passage.
THE ROOT
מִתְקָה
Mithqah
GROWS FROM
מ־ת־ק
To be sweet or pleasant.
Mithcah carries the root of sweetness inside its name, a quality that English leaves hidden in the place-name. The itinerary records that sweetness as one stage the travelers leave.
ALSO GROWS
māṯōq: Sweet; pleasant to the taste.
מָתוֹק
This branch gives the root’s sweetness a concrete, tasted form.
meṯeq: Sweetness; pleasantness.
מֶתֶק
This branch names the quality held in Mithcah’s name.
וַיַּחֲנוּ
wayyaḥănû
GROWS FROM
ח־נ־ה
To encamp or pitch camp.
“pitched” in this verse is wayyaḥănû. The verb shares its root with the Hebrew word for a camp, so the verse places a temporary dwelling inside the journey. Departure and encampment are paired movements along the same route.
ALSO GROWS
maḥăneh: Camp; encampment.
מַחֲנֶה
This noun comes from the same root as “pitched,” naming the place made by the act.
ḥōneh: One who is encamping.
חֹנֶה
This form describes the act of settling temporarily that the verse records.
THE PATTERN
A journey unfolds through successive stages of movement and temporary dwelling.
And all the congregation of the children of Israel journeyed from the wilderness of Sin, after their journeys, according to the commandment of the LORD, and pitched in Rephidim: and there was no water for the people to drink.By faith he sojourned in the land of promise, as in a strange country, dwelling in tabernacles with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise:And we sailed thence, and came the next day over against Chios; and the next day we arrived at Samos, and tarried at Trogyllium; and the next day we came to Miletus.THE THREAD
My son, eat thou honey, because it is good; and the honeycomb, which is sweet to thy taste:The name מִתְקָה (Mithqah, “sweetness”) shares its root with מָתוֹק (māṯōq, “sweet”), the word used here for the honeycomb. Proverbs gives that root a taste on the tongue; Numbers names sweetness as a place along the route, one the travelers leave.
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