What Does Proverbs 7:14 Mean in the King James?
I have peace offerings with me; this day have I payed my vows.
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 same Hebrew root names both the well-being offering and the act of paying: the speaker frames the invitation as if everything is already settled.
THE MEANING
The speaker presents a fulfilled obligation and an offering of well-being as the frame for what comes next. The account may be settled, but the next choice is not; the lines that follow reveal where this invitation leads.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
Meeting a religious obligation does not automatically make the next choice clean or covered.
THE ROOT
שְׁלָמִים
shelamim
GROWS FROM
שׁלם
sh-l-m
To be whole or complete; to make good, repay, or bring to completion.
“peace offerings / payed” in this verse is shelamim. English separates “peace” from “payed,” but both words grow from the same root of wholeness and making good. The offering and the completed vow are held together in her claim, setting the invitation that follows inside a frame of apparent completion.
ALSO GROWS
shalom: Wholeness, well-being
שָׁלוֹם
It shows that the “peace” in the offering carries the sense of well-being, not merely the absence of conflict.
shillem: To make good, repay, complete
שִׁלֵּם
This is the same root’s language of settling an obligation, heard in “payed my vows.”
THE PATTERN
Scripture places offerings beside the language of wholeness, completed vows, or what is made complete.
And this is the law of the sacrifice of peace offerings, which he shall offer unto the LORD.Offer unto God thanksgiving; and pay thy vows unto the most High:For by one offering he hath perfected for ever them that are sanctified.THE THREAD
Offer unto God thanksgiving; and pay thy vows unto the most High:Psalm 50:14 uses the same Hebrew root of making whole or making good in “pay thy vows” that Proverbs 7:14 uses for both the peace offerings and “payed.” That shared seed reveals the verse’s hinge: well-being and a completed obligation are presented together.
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