What Does 2 Chronicles 25:6 Mean?
He also hired a hundred thousand mighty men of strength out of Israel for a hundred talents of silver.
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
He hired also an hundred thousand mighty men of valour out of Israel for an hundred talents of silver.THE KEY
The verse prices an army as it names its strength, exposing power as something assembled through exchange.
THE MEANING
You see strength take a price: one hundred thousand mighty men are brought into service for one hundred talents of silver. The count gives the force scale, and the fee makes clear that this strength is assembled through exchange.
THE ROOT
וַיִּשְׂכֹּר
wayyiskor
GROWS FROM
שכר
sakar
Hire or pay for service.
“hired” in this verse is wayyiskor. The Hebrew verb שָׂכַר (sakar, hire) belongs to a word family that includes both hiring and wages. Here the sentence gives the military force a price, so the “mighty men” are also contracted service.
ALSO GROWS
sakar: Wages or payment.
שָׂכָר
The wage branch makes the price of the hired force explicit.
sakhir: A hired worker.
שָׂכִיר
This branch makes the people themselves visible as hired service.
גִּבּוֹרֵי
gibborei
GROWS FROM
גבר
g-b-r
Be strong or prevail.
“mighty” in this verse is gibborei. The men are described with a word from גבר, the root of strength and prevailing. The verse places that strength under a wage: their prowess is enlisted for a defined price.
ALSO GROWS
gavar: To be strong or prevail.
גָּבַר
The verb names the force expressed by the men’s might.
gevurah: Might or strength.
גְּבוּרָה
This noun shows the same root’s wider language of power.
כֶּסֶף
kesef
GROWS FROM
כסף
k-s-p
Silver; the same consonant family is also used for longing or yearning.
Hebrew uses כסף (kesef, silver) for the payment and כָּסַף (kasaf, long for) for yearning. That shared word family lets the stated price carry an echo of desire while keeping the exchange measurable.
ALSO GROWS
kesef: Silver or money.
כֶּסֶף
This is the payment that makes the army’s price concrete.
kasaf: To long for or yearn.
כָּסַף
The shared consonants link the payment with the language of desire.
THE PATTERN
Human capacity becomes service through an explicit exchange, and the wage reveals what is being enlisted.
And Laban said to Jacob, Because you are my brother, should you therefore serve me for nothing? Tell me, what will your wages be?And now, command that they cut cedars for me from Lebanon, and my servants will be with your servants, and I will give you the wages of your servants according to all you say, for you know that among us there is none who knows how to cut trees like the Sidonians.And remain in that same house, eating and drinking what they give, for the worker is worthy of his pay. Do not step from house to house.THE THREAD
And Laban said to Jacob, Because you are my brother, should you therefore serve me for nothing? Tell me, what will your wages be?The Hebrew word translated “wages” belongs to שכר (sakar, hire or pay for service), the same root as “hired” here. Genesis asks the price of service; this verse names an army enlisted at that price, making the exchange explicit in both.
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