#BibleStudy (#VerseByVerse #WordByWord) - #FirstKings10 (-Fourteen, Where The Revelator might've first-seen "666") | @forex
The main word #Talents comes up; not only because 'I recently reread that use of it in The Bible,' but also because 'it's fascinating how it seems to be such an important unit there' (like "the dollar" in America and lots of other countries ... used in The Parable of the Talents, etc.). I find that you understand words better when you look at the other words at the first words' bases ...
The word “Talents” (both 'special abilities' AND 'weights of treasure') is built on ancient words that mean "to Lift, Support, Weigh." #Talented #Talent
The Hebrew כִּכַּ֥ר (about 6,000 drachmae (about $21)) is related to words that mean "a |Round-District ( |Plain), -Loaf (Cake), -|Cover.
This verse (and all the others in First- & Second-Kings) are all 'in that one book,' and I'll study each chapter (reviewing each word) and -link all my findings to this page (eventually); but really I pick these passages up from all over (mostly printed on redemptmos sent from disciples you and I can support as they sow The Word into the whole world (from the top to the bottom, and all the way `round the middle),
(or discussed in a widely broadcast Family Bible-Study (where every thread is unraveled, examined & stitched back into the Holy Patchwork-Quilt' ... "chapter-by-chapter & verse-by-verse," a method that leads to some disagreements (calling to mind the last verse-or-two of Isaiah 54))).
(or other 'squips' from-friends on Facebook & |Twitter & |MyLot, -ministers on |Daystar & |TBN & |EWTN & Heart of the Nation, -organizations in the community ( |Knights of Columbus, some churches), -etc.).
| 1 Kings 10 | |||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10:14 | Meaning of Hebrew roots | was | weight | gold | that | came | Solomon | one | year | six | hundred | sixty | six | talents | gold, |
| BibleHub's Interlinear | And was | weight | of the gold | that | came | to Solomon | one | in year | six | hundred | sixty | and six | talents | of gold, | |
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