What Does Psalm 106:11 Mean in the King James?
And the waters covered their enemies: there was not one of them left.
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 word for enemies carries the root of binding and pressure, and here that constricting force is submerged without remainder.
THE MEANING
The waters cover the enemies completely, and not one remains. The verse holds the reader before a stark image of total defeat: no adversary stands outside the water.
THE ROOT
צָרֵיהֶם
tsarehem
GROWS FROM
צרר
צָרַר (tsarar): bind, tie up, press, or vex; this consonantal family also names an adversary or oppressor.
“enemies” in this verse is tsarehem. The enemy word is related to the doubled root צרר, whose verb means to bind, press, or vex. The verse names a constricting force and shows it completely engulfed, with not one left.
ALSO GROWS
tsarar: To bind, tie up, press, or vex.
צָרַר
This verb makes the binding and pressure carried by the related enemy word visible.
tseror: A bundle or tied packet.
צְרוֹר
The same consonants name something bound together, revealing the root’s physical sense of binding.
THE PATTERN
The same waters carry the pursued through and drown the force pursuing them.
And the waters returned, and covered the chariots, and the horsemen, and all the host of Pharaoh that came into the sea after them; there remained not so much as one of them.By faith they passed through the Red sea as by dry land: which the Egyptians assaying to do were drowned.THE THREAD
Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies: thou anointest my head with oil; my cup runneth over.Psalm 23 uses the same Hebrew enemy term from the צרר (tsarar, bind or press) family: there, the constrictors remain in view beside the table. Here, the waters cover them completely, carrying the binding-pressure image to its stark end.
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