What Does Proverbs 25:1 Mean in the King James?

These are also proverbs of Solomon, which the men of Hezekiah king of Judah copied out.

Proverbs 25:1 · KJV

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 sayings reach you because someone moved them forward; preservation is part of wisdom’s life.

THE MEANING

These sayings are present to you now through deliberate preservation: wisdom remains available because it is carried forward and made readable. The verse places that human act of carrying inside the life of the wisdom itself.

THE ROOT

הֶעְתִּיקוּ

heʿtiqū

GROWS FROM

עָתַק

ʿataq

To move, remove, or transfer.

“copied out” in this verse is heʿtiqū. The same root can describe moving something from its place and transferring words into a record. The verse makes preservation an act of movement: these sayings remain available because they are carried forward.

ALSO GROWS

heʿtiqū: They copied or transferred.

הֶעְתִּיקוּ

This is the form used in the verse: the sayings are moved into a new record so they can remain present.

hammaʿtiqām: The one moving or removing them.

הַמַּעְתִּיקָם

Job uses this root for mountains being moved from their place, showing the force of movement held in the verb that here carries wisdom forward.

THE PATTERN

Wisdom remains available through deliberate acts of preservation and transmission.

And the LORD said unto Moses, Write this for a memorial in a book, and rehearse it in the ears of Joshua: for I will utterly put out the remembrance of Amalek from under heaven.

Exodus 17:14 · KJVThe word is preserved in writing and passed into another person’s hearing.

And thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up.

Deuteronomy 6:7 · KJVInstruction stays present by being carried through ordinary speech and shared life.

And the things that thou hast heard of me among many witnesses, the same commit thou to faithful men, who shall be able to teach others also.

2 Timothy 2:2 · KJVWhat is received is entrusted onward so it can reach still more people.

THE THREAD

Which removeth the mountains, and they know not: which overturneth them in his anger.

Job 9:5 · KJV

The same Hebrew root appears here for moving mountains out of place. In Proverbs it carries sayings forward into a record, so a root of movement also describes how wisdom travels across time.

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