What Does 2 Chronicles 4:7 Mean in the King James?
And he made ten candlesticks of gold according to their form, and set them in the temple, five on the right hand, and five on the left.
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 lamps are placed by a governing order, and the act of setting them is also the language of giving.
THE MEANING
Light is placed throughout sacred space by deliberate measure: ten golden lampstands, five on each side. Illumination fills the room through an ordered distribution, with each lamp given its place.
THE ROOT
וַיִּתֵּן
wayyitten
GROWS FROM
נתן
n-t-n
to give, set, or place
The verb translated “set” is natan, whose sense holds placing together with giving. The lamps are given their locations, and the room receives light through those placements.
ALSO GROWS
mattanah: gift
מַתָּנָה
A gift is something given or placed into another’s keeping, linking the lamps’ placement with what is given.
netinah: giving, donation
נְתִינָה
This noun keeps the root’s sense of giving visible beneath the simple English word “set.”
מִשְׁפָּטָם
mishpatam
GROWS FROM
שפט
sh-p-t
to judge, decide, or govern
Mishpat carries the sense of judgment, ordinance, and governing order. The lamps’ form is therefore more than appearance: it belongs to a pattern that orders how they occupy the sacred space.
ALSO GROWS
shafat: to judge or decide
שָׁפַט
The verb shows the root’s force of discerning and setting what is fitting.
shofet: judge, one who decides
שֹׁפֵט
The judge gives decisions; here the related word points to an arrangement shaped by a governing measure.
THE PATTERN
Light is placed in an ordered position so it can reach across a whole space.
And thou shalt make the seven lamps thereof: and they shall light the lamps thereof, that they may give light over against it.Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path.Neither do men light a candle, and put it under a bushel, but on a candlestick; and it giveth light unto all that are in the house.THE THREAD
And God set them in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth,The verb “set” in both verses comes from נתן (natan, give/set/place). Genesis places lights in the heavens; this verse places lamps in the temple, making the sanctuary’s illumination echo the ordered lights above.
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