“DRAVE? … DROVE? … WHAT’S THE DIFFERENCE? WHO CARES?”
“DRAVE? … DROVE? … WHAT’S THE DIFFERENCE? WHO CARES?”
God does!
Otherwise he wouldn’t
have put it in the
Bible.
When I went to school in the 50’s and 60’s, there was
a part of English called parsing.
It comes from the word ‘parts’ … whereby a
sentence was put into it’s parts … like subject, verb and
predicate (the
part of the sentence that came after the subject and verb).
Anyhow, we were taught every verb had three tenses …
past, present and future.
Take the verb “DRIVE” for example …
the present tense of the verb ‘drive’ is “Today
I drive”
the past tense of the verb ‘drive’ is
“Yesterday I drove”
the future tense of the verb ‘drive’ is “I will
be driving”
So what’s this word “drave” all about? What
does it mean? Why would God put it in the Bible? It’s used 13 times in
13
verses.
A general rule/mostly in Bible study is to check out
the meaning of a word used with its first mention.
“And (God) took
off their
chariot wheels, that they drave them HEAVILY:
so that
the Egyptians said, Let us flee from the face of Israel; for the LORD
fighteth
for them against the Egyptians.” (Exodus 14:25)
Yes Dear
Reader, imagine driving your car on the road with punctured tyres? How
about an
Egyptian chariot with no wheels through the sand … it can be
done … but
the horses will be exhausted. It’s hard driving!
Yes Dear Raeder, this is what is called DRAVING! Plain hard yakka! Heavy driving!
You will notice that this is not a word used in
TV ads for cars … where everything is described as effortless
driving …
with maximum fuel
However, if the word ‘drave’ was to be used in
a TV car advertisement … it would be “Hey couch potato, imagine
getting
into this little number … we guarantee you won’t be draving
when you get
behind the wheel with this model.”
God’s
King
James Bible
is like a brain surgeon operating with laser
technology.
Satan’s
‘Bible’
versions (NIV, NKJV, NASV
etc) are like brain surgeons operating with blunt
scalpels.
But
… God’s
not twisting your arm on which Bible to read. That’s up to you. But
what will
you tell him …
“WHA?
NEAR’NUFFS
GOODEN’UFF … IN’IT?”
Harley
Hitchcock
June 2024
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