What Does 2 Chronicles 30:13 Mean in the King James?
And there assembled at Jerusalem much people to keep the feast of unleavened bread in the second month, a very great congregation.
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 people gather into an assembly at Yerushalayim, a name that carries the sound of shalom, the wholeness that can hold a multitude.
THE MEANING
Many people gather around a shared observance and become a congregation, not merely a crowd. Their gathering has a common center, and the verse places that many-ness within the resonance of wholeness.
THE ROOT
יְרוּשָׁלַיִם
Yerushalayim
GROWS FROM
ש־ל־ם
sh-l-m
wholeness, completeness
“Jerusalem” in this verse is Yerushalayim. Yerushalayim carries the sound of שָׁלוֹם (shalom, wholeness) in a dual form: two wholenesses. The multitude gathers at a name that holds the horizon of wholeness.
ALSO GROWS
shalom: wholeness, well-being
שָׁלוֹם
It reveals the resonance carried by Jerusalem’s name in this verse.
shalem: whole, complete
שָׁלֵם
It makes the name’s wholeness concrete: the gathering is held within a place-name of completeness.
וַיִּקָּבְצוּ
wayyiqqavetsu
GROWS FROM
ק־ב־ץ
q-b-ts
gather, collect
“assembled” in this verse is wayyiqqavetsu. This word carries the movement by which people are gathered into one place. Beside qahal, it lets the verse show both the gathering and the assembly it forms.
ALSO GROWS
qibbēts: gathered, collected
קִבֵּץ
It keeps the act of collecting people audible beneath the completed gathering.
qibbuts: a gathering, collection
קִבּוּץ
It names the collected group that emerges from the movement expressed in the verse.
קָהָל
qahal
GROWS FROM
ק־ה־ל
q-h-l
assemble, gather as a community
Qahal gives the multitude the form of an assembly. The verse holds movement and shared presence together: people are gathered, and their gathered life is a congregation.
ALSO GROWS
haqhel: assemble or gather the people
הַקְהֵל
This verb form shows the same root as an act that brings people into a shared gathering.
qehillah: community, congregation
קְהִלָּה
It carries qahal’s assembly into the sense of a people gathered as a community.
THE PATTERN
A shared sacred observance gives a gathering of many people a common center and shape.
And in the first day there shall be an holy convocation, and in the seventh day there shall be an holy convocation to you; no manner of work shall be done in them, save that which every man must eat, that only may be done of you.And when the day of Pentecost was fully come, they were all with one accord in one place.Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is; but exhorting one another: and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching.THE THREAD
And he shall set up an ensign for the nations, and shall assemble the outcasts of Israel, and gather together the dispersed of Judah from the four corners of the earth.The Hebrew וַיִּקָּבְצוּ (wayyiqqavetsu, “they gathered”) here and יְקַבֵּץ (yəqabbēts, “gather together”) in Isaiah share the root קבץ (qavats, “gather, collect”). Isaiah makes the movement visible: people dispersed across the earth are gathered into a shared assembly.
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