What Does Psalm 78:29 Mean in the King James?
So they did eat, and were well filled: for he gave them their own desire;
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
Getting what you crave can fill you without releasing the craving.
THE MEANING
You can receive what you crave and feel full, while fulfillment alone does not prove the craving has loosened its hold. The verse holds both realities together: the body is filled, and desire is answered.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
The lie that getting what you crave automatically frees you from craving.
THE ROOT
תַּאֲוָתָם
ta'avātām
GROWS FROM
אוה
To desire or long for; to crave.
Ta’avah can name appetite as well as an inward wish. Psalm 106:14 intensifies the same root by saying they “lusted exceedingly”, literally, they craved a craving, so the desire here is not merely imagined: it is answered with food, though being filled does not itself mean the craving is released.
ALSO GROWS
avah: To desire or long for.
אָוָה
The verb beneath the noun shows desire as an active reaching, not simply a preference.
ta'avah: Desire, appetite, or craving.
תַּאֲוָה
This noun names the longing that is brought within reach and answered in the verse.
THE PATTERN
Craving can be granted and the body filled while the craving itself remains in command.
They were not estranged from their lust. But while their meat was yet in their mouths,But lusted exceedingly in the wilderness, and tempted God in the desert.Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves:THE THREAD
But lusted exceedingly in the wilderness, and tempted God in the desert.Psalm 106 uses the same desire-root in the phrase “lusted exceedingly,” whose Hebrew repeats the idea: they craved a craving. That echo reveals the desire in Psalm 78 as appetite answered with food, not necessarily a longing released by fulfillment.
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