What Does 2 Chronicles 32:28 Mean in the King James?

Storehouses also for the increase of corn, and wine, and oil; and stalls for all manner of beasts, and cotes for flocks.

2 Chronicles 32:28 · KJV

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King James Version The King James Version, first published in 1611. Selah Verse shows the standard text.

This verse in the Selah Decoded Version

THE KEY

The Hebrew word for “increase” means what comes in, so abundance appears as provision given a place.

THE MEANING

Abundance takes tangible form here: produce is gathered, wine and oil are stored, and animals have shelter. Nourishment and protection belong together in this picture of provision.

THE ROOT

תְּבוּאָה

tevu'ah

GROWS FROM

בוא

to come, to enter

Tevu’ah means produce or increase, and grows from ⁨בוא⁩ (bo), “to come” or “enter.” The word presents a harvest as what comes in, fitting the verse’s image of abundance gathered into storehouses.

ALSO GROWS

bo: to come, to enter

בּוֹא

This seed verb gives “increase” its sense of yield arriving and entering.

mavo: entrance; a place of coming in

מָבוֹא

This related word carries the same coming-in motion into a noun, echoing the storehouses that receive the yield.

THE PATTERN

Abundance takes form as tangible provision fitted to sustain living creatures.

And he gathered up all the food of the seven years, which were in the land of Egypt, and laid up the food in the cities: the food of the field, which was round about every city, laid he up in the same.

Genesis 41:48 · KJVFood from the land is gathered and given a place where it can be held.

So shall thy barns be filled with plenty, and thy presses shall burst out with new wine.

Proverbs 3:10 · KJVAbundance appears as stores of grain and wine, the same kinds of provision named in this verse.

Nevertheless he left not himself without witness, in that he did good, and gave us rain from heaven, and fruitful seasons, filling our hearts with food and gladness.

Acts 14:17 · KJVProvision takes the form of rain, fruitful seasons, food, and gladness.

THE THREAD

Thou shalt truly tithe all the increase of thy seed, that the field bringeth forth year by year.

Deuteronomy 14:22 · KJV

The word translated “increase” is ⁨תְּבוּאָה⁩ (tevu’ah), the same word used here. Its root ⁨בוא⁩ (bo, “to come, to enter”) frames produce as what comes in; Deuteronomy traces that yield to seed, field, and the recurring year.

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