What Does Psalm 106:35 Mean in the King James?
But were mingled among the heathen, and learned their works.
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 people and practices you join become your teachers; participation is already education.
THE MEANING
What you repeatedly enter teaches you now: shared practices can move from the people around you into your own habits. The verse shows belonging as formative, because the works you take part in also school you.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
It undoes the belief that you can share in a community’s practices without being shaped by them.
THE ROOT
וַיִּלְמְדוּ
wayyilmĕḏû
GROWS FROM
למד
L-M-D
To learn or be trained; in the intensive stem, to teach or instruct.
“learned” in this verse is wayyilmĕḏû. The Hebrew root holds learning and teaching together: the learner is being formed by what instructs them. Here, mingling is followed by learning their works, the shared life itself becomes a teacher.
ALSO GROWS
limmed: Taught or instructed; the intensive form of the same root.
לִמֵּד
The same root that names learning can name teaching, revealing how a surrounding practice instructs through participation.
limmud: One who is taught or trained.
לִמּוּד
This branch carries learning into a formed person, showing that instruction leaves a shape behind.
THE PATTERN
What you repeatedly join teaches and shapes you.
He that walketh with wise men shall be wise: but a companion of fools shall be destroyed.Be not deceived: evil communications corrupt good manners.And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.THE THREAD
It is good for me that I have been afflicted; that I might learn thy statutes.Both verses use למד (lamad), “learn.” Psalm 106:35 shows participation teaching the people the surrounding works; Psalm 119:71 turns the same learning toward instruction that gives a different shape.
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