The Meaning of 1 Kings 5:11 Explained

1 Kings 5:11

KJV: And Solomon gave Hiram twenty thousand measures of wheat for food to his household, and twenty measures of pure oil: thus gave Solomon to Hiram year by year.

YLT: and Solomon hath given to Hiram twenty thousand cors of wheat, food for his house, and twenty cors of beaten oil; thus doth Solomon give to Hiram year by year.

Darby: And Solomon gave Hiram twenty thousand measures of wheat as food for his household, and twenty measures of beaten oil: thus gave Solomon to Hiram year by year.

ASV: And Solomon gave Hiram twenty thousand measures of wheat for food to his household, and twenty measures of pure oil: thus gave Solomon to Hiram year by year.

KJV Reverse Interlinear

And Solomon  gave  Hiram  twenty  thousand  measures  of wheat  [for] food  to his household,  and twenty  measures  of pure  oil:  thus gave  Solomon  to Hiram  year  by year. 

What does 1 Kings 5:11 Mean?

Context Summary

1Kings 5:7-18 - Preparations For The Great Task
It was good for Hiram and his Tyrians to be associated with the servants of Solomon. Together they hewed immense blocks of stone, some of which were thirty feet in length and six feet in breadth, and which still form foundations on the ancient Temple site. Together they hewed down and fashioned the cedar and fir trees on the slopes of Lebanon. May we not learn from this partnership that Gentiles are to be associated with Jews in that one holy Temple, which through the ages is growing into a habitation of God by His Spirit? Ephesians 2:21-22. In Christ there is neither Jew nor Greek, circumcision nor uncircumcision.
The treaty between the two kingdoms was eminently wise, because they differed so widely-the one being pastoral, the other commercial. It was wise for Peter and John to enter into close friendship, and together ascend the steps to the Beautiful Gate of the Temple, Acts 3:1-3. Be content to be a hewer on the mountains, shaping rough blocks of granite, but, do something toward building the Temple of God, which arises slowly amid the wreck of all human structures.
1Kings 5:1-18 - Breaking Three Commandments
From a worldly point of view Naboth might have done a good stroke of business by selling his estate to. Ahab. A royal price and assured favor might have been his-but he had a conscience! Above the persuasive tones of the monarch's offer sounded the voice of God: "The land shall not be sold for ever, for the land is mine." See Leviticus 25:23; Numbers 36:7; Ezekiel 46:18.
Ahab knew perfectly well that Jezebel could not give him the property of another except by foul means, but he took pains not to inquire. Though the direct orders for Naboth's death did not come from him, yet, by his silence, he was an accomplice and an accessory; and divine justice penetrates all such specious excuses. God holds us responsible for wrongs which we do not arrest, though we have the power. The crime was blacker because of the pretext of religion, as suggested by a fast. See also 2 Kings 9:26. The blood of murdered innocence cries to God, and his requital, though delayed, is inevitable. See Revelation 6:9-10. [source]

Chapter Summary: 1Kings 5

1  Hiram, sending to congratulate Solomon, is desired to furnish him with timber
7  Hiram, blessing God for Solomon, furnishes him with trees
13  The number of Solomon's workmen and laborers

What do the individual words in 1 Kings 5:11 mean?

And Solomon gave Hiram twenty thousand kors of wheat [as] food for his household and twenty of oil pressed thus gave Solomon to Hiram year by year -
וּשְׁלֹמֹה֩ נָתַ֨ן לְחִירָ֜ם עֶשְׂרִים֩ אֶ֨לֶף כֹּ֤ר חִטִּים֙ מַכֹּ֣לֶת לְבֵית֔וֹ וְעֶשְׂרִ֥ים שֶׁ֣מֶן כָּתִ֑ית כֹּֽה־ יִתֵּ֧ן שְׁלֹמֹ֛ה לְחִירָ֖ם שָׁנָ֥ה בְשָׁנָֽה פ

וּשְׁלֹמֹה֩  And  Solomon 
Parse: Conjunctive waw, Proper Noun, masculine singular
Root: שְׁלֹמֹה  
Sense: son of David by Bathsheba and 3rd king of Israel; author of Proverbs and Song of Songs.
נָתַ֨ן  gave 
Parse: Verb, Qal, Perfect, third person masculine singular
Root: יָתַן 
Sense: to give, put, set.
לְחִירָ֜ם  Hiram 
Parse: Preposition-l, Proper Noun, masculine singular
Root: חִירֹום 
Sense: the king of Tyre who sent workmen and materials to Jerusalem to build both the palace for David and the temple for Solomon.
עֶשְׂרִים֩  twenty 
Parse: Number, common plural
Root: עֶשְׂרִים  
Sense: twenty, twentieth.
אֶ֨לֶף  thousand 
Parse: Number, masculine singular
Root: אֶלֶף 
Sense: a thousand.
כֹּ֤ר  kors 
Parse: Noun, masculine singular construct
Root: כֹּר 
Sense: kor, a measure (usually dry).
חִטִּים֙  of  wheat 
Parse: Noun, feminine plural
Root: חִטָּה  
Sense: wheat.
מַכֹּ֣לֶת  [as]  food 
Parse: Noun, feminine singular
Root: מַכֹּלֶת  
Sense: food, food stuff.
לְבֵית֔וֹ  for  his  household 
Parse: Preposition-l, Noun, masculine singular construct, third person masculine singular
Root: בַּיִת 
Sense: house.
וְעֶשְׂרִ֥ים  and  twenty 
Parse: Conjunctive waw, Number, common plural
Root: עֶשְׂרִים  
Sense: twenty, twentieth.
שֶׁ֣מֶן  of  oil 
Parse: Noun, masculine singular
Root: שֶׁמֶן  
Sense: fat, oil.
כָּתִ֑ית  pressed 
Parse: Adjective, masculine singular
Root: כָּתִית  
Sense: beaten out, pure, pounded fine (in a mortar), costly.
כֹּֽה־  thus 
Parse: Adverb
Root: כֹּה  
Sense: thus, here, in this manner.
יִתֵּ֧ן  gave 
Parse: Verb, Qal, Imperfect, third person masculine singular
Root: יָתַן 
Sense: to give, put, set.
שְׁלֹמֹ֛ה  Solomon 
Parse: Proper Noun, masculine singular
Root: שְׁלֹמֹה  
Sense: son of David by Bathsheba and 3rd king of Israel; author of Proverbs and Song of Songs.
לְחִירָ֖ם  to  Hiram 
Parse: Preposition-l, Proper Noun, masculine singular
Root: חִירֹום 
Sense: the king of Tyre who sent workmen and materials to Jerusalem to build both the palace for David and the temple for Solomon.
שָׁנָ֥ה  year 
Parse: Noun, feminine singular
Root: שָׁנָה  
Sense: year.
בְשָׁנָֽה  by  year 
Parse: Preposition-b, Noun, feminine singular
Root: שָׁנָה  
Sense: year.
פ  - 
Parse: Punctuation

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