What Does 2 Chronicles 27:4 Mean in the King James?
Moreover he built cities in the mountains of Judah, and in the forests he built castles and towers.
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 mountains and forests cease to be mere terrain: cities, strongholds, and towers make them inhabited and defended ground.
THE MEANING
The steep and wooded places in your life are not automatically empty or unreachable; they can hold settled life and protection. City, stronghold, and tower gather into one scene, showing habitation extending into terrain that is difficult to occupy.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
Only easy, open ground can hold a stable life.
THE ROOT
בָּנָה
bānâ
GROWS FROM
בנה
b-n-h
Build, construct, establish.
English can make “built” sound like putting up objects, but this root also branches into the language of establishing a household. The cities and fortifications are durable presence taking shape across Judah’s highland and forest.
ALSO GROWS
binyan: Building, structure.
בִּנְיָן
It names the structure produced by the same build-root; the cities and fortifications are that root made visible across difficult terrain.
ben: Son; traditionally associated with building or continuing a household.
בֵּן
This branch carries “build” from masonry into family continuity, adding an echo of lasting establishment to the verse’s construction.
מִגְדָּלִים
migdālîm
GROWS FROM
גדל
g-d-l
Grow, become great.
“towers” in this verse is migdālîm. English names a tower by its shape; migdal carries the root sense of growing great or rising up. Its height turns difficult ground into a place from which the surrounding land can be watched and defended.
ALSO GROWS
gadal: To grow, become great.
גָּדַל
The verb gives the tower its sense of rising above the terrain.
gadol: Great, large.
גָּדוֹל
The related adjective echoes the scale and height that make a tower useful in exposed country.
יְהוּדָה
Yehudah
GROWS FROM
ידה
y-d-h
Praise, give thanks.
Judah carries the praise-root yadah, so the verse’s geography holds more than a map label. These built places rise in a land whose name carries the nature of praise.
ALSO GROWS
yadah: Praise, give thanks, acknowledge.
יָדָה
The root echoed in Judah’s name adds praise to the setting where the cities and towers are built.
todah: Thanksgiving, praise.
תּוֹדָה
This related word keeps the praise-root audible beneath the place-name Judah.
THE PATTERN
Structures of refuge turn exposed or difficult ground into protected habitation.
In that day shall this song be sung in the land of Judah; We have a strong city; salvation will God appoint for walls and bulwarks.The name of the LORD is a strong tower: the righteous runneth into it, and is safe.And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell not: for it was founded upon a rock.THE THREAD
The name of the LORD is a strong tower: the righteous runneth into it, and is safe.The word translated “towers” here is מִגְדָּל (migdal), the same Hebrew word used for “tower” in Proverbs 18:10, from גדל (gadal), to grow or become great. In this verse the raised structure stands among the wooded places; in Proverbs, that same tower becomes a refuge one can enter.
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