What Does 1 Kings 4:8 Mean in the King James?

And these are their names: The son of Hur, in mount Ephraim:

1 Kings 4:8 · KJV

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

Ephraim’s name makes this location carry the nature of fruitfulness.

THE MEANING

You encounter a person through a family name and a place-name; Ephraim carries the sense of fruitfulness. The verse makes location part of how identity is encountered, not empty scenery.

THE ROOT

אֶפְרָיִם

Efrayim

GROWS FROM

פרה

To bear fruit, be fruitful, or bring forth increase.

Ephraim is tied to ⁨פרה⁩, “to bear fruit,” so the place-name carries a nature of increase inside a line that can look like a bare roster. Its naming also joins fruitfulness with affliction, holding growth and pressure together.

ALSO GROWS

hifrah: He caused something to be fruitful.

הִפְרָה

This causative form shows fruitfulness as something brought forth, echoing the nature carried in Ephraim’s name.

yifreh: He will bear fruit or become fruitful.

יִפְרֶה

This form expresses fruitfulness as an unfolding condition, giving the place-name a living sense of growth.

THE PATTERN

Scripture treats a name as a disclosure of the nature it carries.

And he said, Thy name shall be called no more Jacob, but Israel: for as a prince hast thou power with God and with men, and hast prevailed.

Genesis 32:28 · KJVThe name Israel embodies the struggle and prevailing described in the same verse.

Let not my lord, I pray thee, regard this man of Belial, even Nabal: for as his name is, so is he; Nabal is his name, and folly is with him: but I thine handmaid saw not the young men of my lord, whom thou didst send.

1 Samuel 25:25 · KJVThe verse states directly that Nabal’s name expresses the nature associated with him.

And she shall bring forth a son, and thou shalt call his name JESUS: for he shall save his people from their sins.

Matthew 1:21 · KJVThe name Jesus is linked to what he does: he delivers his people.

THE THREAD

And the name of the second called he Ephraim: For God hath caused me to be fruitful in the land of my affliction.

Genesis 41:52 · KJV

Genesis joins Ephraim’s name to fruitfulness in the words “hath caused me to be fruitful.” That root connection fills the place-name in 1 Kings 4:8 with a living nature that holds growth together with affliction.

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