What Does Proverbs 27:27 Mean in the King James?
And thou shalt have goats’ milk enough for thy food, for the food of thy household, and for the maintenance for thy maidens.
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 verse calls a household provided for when its nourishment reaches everyone whose life depends on it.
THE MEANING
The provision here is concrete and shared: nourishment reaches your table, your household, and the maidens in it. Its measure is the life it sustains across the whole household.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
It undoes the idea that only surplus counts as abundance: enough is already abundance when it sustains the lives connected to your table.
THE ROOT
חַיִּים
chayyim
GROWS FROM
חיה
ch-y-h
to live, be alive
The word rendered “maintenance” also carries the concrete sense of “life,” tying the maidens’ support to living itself. The same root names both being alive and living, so provision appears as the continuation of life through the household.
ALSO GROWS
chay: alive, living
חַי
This branch names the state that the household’s food and milk sustain.
chayah: to live, remain alive
חָיָה
This verb shows the root as ongoing life, the very thing the provision supports.
THE PATTERN
Provision is complete when nourishment reaches all who depend on a household.
These wait all upon thee; that thou mayest give them their meat in due season.Give us this day our daily bread.THE THREAD
For with thee is the fountain of life: in thy light shall we see light.The Hebrew word חַיִּים (chayyim), “life,” in Proverbs 27:27 appears again in Psalm 36:9. Proverbs locates that life in nourishment shared through a household; Psalm calls it a fountain whose source is God.
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