What Does 2 Chronicles 32:28 Mean?
Storehouses also for the yield of grain, wine, and oil, and stalls for all manner of beasts, and lying places for flocks.
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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
Storehouses also for the increase of corn, and wine, and oil; and stalls for all manner of beasts, and cotes for flocks.THE KEY
The Hebrew word for “increase” means what comes in, so abundance appears as provision given a place.
THE MEANING
Abundance takes tangible form here: produce is gathered, wine and oil are stored, and animals have shelter. Nourishment and protection belong together in this picture of provision.
THE ROOT
תְּבוּאָה
tevu'ah
GROWS FROM
בוא
to come, to enter
“yield” in this verse is tevu'ah. Tevu’ah means produce or increase, and grows from בוא (bo), “to come” or “enter.” The word presents a harvest as what comes in, fitting the verse’s image of abundance gathered into storehouses.
ALSO GROWS
bo: to come, to enter
בּוֹא
This seed verb gives “increase” its sense of yield arriving and entering.
mavo: entrance; a place of coming in
מָבוֹא
This related word carries the same coming-in motion into a noun, echoing the storehouses that receive the yield.
THE PATTERN
Abundance takes form as tangible provision fitted to sustain living creatures.
And he gathered all the food of the seven years, which were in the land of Egypt, and placed the food in the cities; the food of the field, which was around every city, he placed within it.Your barns are filled full, and your vats burst with new wine.Yet he did not leave himself without witness, doing good, giving you rain from heaven and seasons that bear fruit, filling your hearts with food and gladness.THE THREAD
You shall truly give a tenth of all the yield of your seed, what the field brings forth year by year.The word translated “increase” is תְּבוּאָה (tevu’ah), the same word used here. Its root בוא (bo, “to come, to enter”) frames produce as what comes in; Deuteronomy traces that yield to seed, field, and the recurring year.
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