What Does 2 Chronicles 11:7 Mean?
And Beth-zur, and Shoco, and Adullam,
Key words are shown with the Hebrew or Greek and what each word meant.
Selah Decoded Version The Selah Decoded Version renders what the Hebrew and Greek words meant to the people who first heard them.
King James wording
King James Version
And Beth-zur, and Shoco, and Adullam,THE KEY
Beth-zur means “house of rock”: this roll call of fortified towns pictures safety as a dwelling anchored in something that holds.
THE MEANING
The names put shelter into view. Beth-zur is “house of rock,” so protection is pictured as a place you can inhabit, grounded in firmness. Even in a bare list, safety has architecture.
THE ROOT
בֵּית־צוּר
Bêt-Tsûr
GROWS FROM
צור
Rock or crag; the related verbal family also carries the sense of enclosing or laying siege.
Beth-zur binds a dwelling to rock: the name does more than identify a place; it pictures a home resting on firmness. A related form, מָצוֹר (matsor), means siege or besieged place, so this word family can name both what holds firm and the boundary under pressure.
ALSO GROWS
tsur: Rock, cliff, or crag.
צוּר
This is the element in Beth-zur that makes the dwelling’s foundation visible.
matsor: Siege or besieged place.
מָצוֹר
The related form brings out the hard boundary around a fortified town: it can resist pressure, while also defining what is enclosed.
THE PATTERN
Protection takes shape when a dwelling or community is held by something firm.
The LORD is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer; my God, my rock, in whom I shelter; my shield, and the horn of my deliverance, and my high place.In that day this song will be sung in the land of Judah. We have a strong city. God will set deliverance for walls and bulwarks.Therefore, everyone who hears these words of mine and does them, I will liken him to a wise man who built his house upon the rock.THE THREAD
Therefore, everyone who hears these words of mine and does them, I will liken him to a wise man who built his house upon the rock.Beth-zur compresses “house” and “rock” into one name; Matthew unfolds the same pairing as a house founded on rock. The town-name lets the list’s sheltering architecture come into focus.
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