What Does 1 Chronicles 5:9 Mean in the King James?
And eastward he inhabited unto the entering in of the wilderness from the river Euphrates: because their cattle were multiplied in the land of Gilead.
The analysis reads the King James wording.
King James Version The King James Version, first published in 1611. Selah Verse shows the standard text.
THE KEY
The herd’s increase is not just a count; it moves the edge of where they dwell.
THE MEANING
Increase has a footprint: as the cattle become many, the dwelling extends farther east, to the wilderness edge. The verse holds material abundance and inhabitable space in one movement; where life multiplies, its reach changes.
THE ROOT
רָבוּ
rāḇû
GROWS FROM
רבה
r-b-h
To become many, grow numerous, or increase.
“multiplied” in this verse is rāḇû. The cattle are not merely counted; they become many, and that increase changes how far the dwelling reaches. The same root can name both the act of increasing and the abundance that results.
ALSO GROWS
rav: Many; great in number.
רַב
This form names the abundance that the cattle’s multiplication brings.
rov: Multitude; abundance.
רֹב
The root’s action of increasing becomes a multitude, linking the growing herd with the expanded reach of its inhabitants.
יָשַׁב
yāšaḇ
GROWS FROM
ישב
y-sh-b
To sit, remain, or dwell.
“inhabited” in this verse is yāšaḇ. The word carries the sense of settled presence: the inhabitants are established across the land. Their reach extends eastward, but the root keeps the image grounded in dwelling rather than movement alone.
ALSO GROWS
yōshēv: One who dwells; an inhabitant.
יֹשֵׁב
The same root describes the person whose settled presence occupies the expanded territory.
mōshāḇ: A seat, dwelling, or settlement.
מוֹשָׁב
This branch makes the root’s link between inhabiting and an established place visible.
THE PATTERN
Increase changes the terms of habitation: as life becomes more numerous, the space and arrangement around it must widen or change.
And God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let fowl multiply in the earth.And the land was not able to bear them, that they might dwell together: for their substance was great, so that they could not dwell together.Which indeed is the least of all seeds: but when it is grown, it is the greatest among herbs, and becometh a tree, so that the birds of the air come and lodge in the branches thereof.THE THREAD
And God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let fowl multiply in the earth.The word translated “multiplied” here comes from רבה (r-b-h), the same root used in the command for living creatures to multiply. In both verses, increase fills a place and changes how life occupies it.
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