What Does Psalm 19:6 Mean in the King James?
His going forth is from the end of the heaven, and his circuit unto the ends of it: and there is nothing hid from the heat thereof.
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 sun’s heat reaches beyond what the eye can see, so concealment does not mean escape from its reach.
THE MEANING
You live beneath a sun whose path spans the sky and whose heat reaches what sight cannot follow; what is hidden remains within its warmth. The verse measures the sun’s reach by what it touches as well as by the path it crosses.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
The belief that what sight cannot find is beyond all reach; the verse says nothing is hidden from the sun’s heat.
THE ROOT
נִסְתָּר
nistar
GROWS FROM
סתר
to hide or conceal
English presents “hid” as a state, while its Hebrew root also names the act of hiding and concealment. The verse says concealment does not put anything beyond the sun’s heat.
ALSO GROWS
satar: to hide, conceal
סָתַר
The verb makes clear that “hid” belongs to a word family about concealment.
seter: a hiding place, a secret
סֵתֶר
This branch shows how the same root can name what is hidden as well as the act of hiding it.
מֵחַמָּתוֹ
mechammato
GROWS FROM
חמם
to grow warm, become hot
The line identifies the sun’s reach through heat, not only through visible light. This word family joins the sun above with the warmth felt below.
ALSO GROWS
chamam: to grow warm, become hot
חָמַם
The verb presents heat as an active change that can be felt.
chammah: the sun; heat
חַמָּה
This related noun can name the sun or its heat, joining the source with its felt effect.
THE PATTERN
A presence that fills its domain reaches what darkness or concealment appears to cover.
Yea, the darkness hideth not from thee; but the night shineth as the day: the darkness and the light are both alike to thee.But unto you that fear my name shall the Sun of righteousness arise with healing in his wings; and ye shall go forth, and grow up as calves of the stall.And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not.THE THREAD
Who can understand his errors? cleanse thou me from secret faults.The Hebrew root סתר (satar, to hide or conceal) appears in both “hid” here and “secret” in verse 12. The psalm’s image moves from the sun reaching what is hidden in the world to the speaker’s own concealed faults.
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