What Does 2 Chronicles 24:15 Mean in the King James?
But Jehoiada waxed old, and was full of days when he died; an hundred and thirty years old was he when he died.
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
Jehoiada’s 130 years are described as days brought to fullness, turning age from a bare count into a measure of being sated.
THE MEANING
This verse holds a life before you as both a counted span, 130 years, and as days brought to fullness. Its ending is named not only by when life stops, but by the measure of days it contains.
THE ROOT
וַיִּשְׂבַּע
vayyisbaʿ
GROWS FROM
שׂבע
ś-b-ʿ
To be sated, satisfied, or full.
“full” in this verse is vayyisbaʿ. The Hebrew verb comes from שׂבע (ś-b-ʿ), whose basic sense is being sated or filled. The days themselves become what is filled: Jehoiada’s life is described not just as 130 years long, but as a measure of days brought to fullness.
ALSO GROWS
śāvaʿ: To be sated or satisfied.
שָׂבַע
This verb shares the root in the verse, making fullness the language used to describe Jehoiada’s days.
śōvaʿ: Satiety or fullness.
שֹׂבַע
The related noun names the state implied by the verse: a life described as filled to its measure.
THE PATTERN
A life’s span can be spoken of as fullness received, not only as years counted.
Then Abraham gave up the ghost, and died in a good old age, an old man, and full of years; and was gathered to his people.So Job died, being old and full of days.With long life will I satisfy him, and shew him my salvation.THE THREAD
So Job died, being old and full of days.Job’s “full of days” translates שׂבע ימים (śāvēaʿ yāmîm), “sated with days,” using the same root as Jehoiada’s description. The shared wording lets you see fullness as the measure applied to both lives at their ending.
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