What Does 2 Chronicles 25:6 Mean in the King James?
He hired also an hundred thousand mighty men of valour out of Israel for an hundred talents of silver.
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 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 unto Jacob, Because thou art my brother, shouldest thou therefore serve me for nought? tell me, what shall thy wages be?Now therefore command thou that they hew me cedar trees out of Lebanon; and my servants shall be with thy servants: and unto thee will I give hire for thy servants according to all that thou shalt appoint: for thou knowest that there is not among us any that can skill to hew timber like unto the Sidonians.And in the same house remain, eating and drinking such things as they give: for the labourer is worthy of his hire. Go not from house to house.THE THREAD
And Laban said unto Jacob, Because thou art my brother, shouldest thou therefore serve me for nought? tell me, what shall thy 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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