What Does 2 Chronicles 6:2 Mean in the King James?
But I have built an house of habitation for thee, and a place for thy dwelling for ever.
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 Hebrew pairs a settled dwelling with a place made firm, turning the house into a home for presence through the ages.
THE MEANING
This verse presents a place made ready for God to dwell through the ages. Its paired words give you an image of presence settling into a home and remaining.
THE ROOT
לְשִׁבְתְּךָ
lə-shivtekha
GROWS FROM
ישב
Sit, settle, dwell.
The word translated “dwelling” comes from a root whose basic movement is sitting down and settling. English “dwelling” can sound abstract; this root pictures presence taking its seat and remaining.
ALSO GROWS
yashab: Sit, settle, dwell
יָשַׁב
The root verb makes the settled quality of the dwelling audible.
moshav: Seat, dwelling place, settlement
מוֹשָׁב
This branch pictures dwelling as a place where someone takes a seat and remains.
yoshev: One who sits or dwells; an inhabitant
יֹשֵׁב
The root names both the act of settling and the one who makes a place home.
מָכוֹן
makon
GROWS FROM
כון
Be firm, establish, set in place.
The word for “place” carries the sense of something established and made firm. Joined with “dwelling,” it presents God’s residence as a prepared, settled place.
ALSO GROWS
hekin: Establish, prepare
הֵכִין
This branch highlights the readiness held in the place set apart for dwelling.
mekhonah: Base, pedestal, stand
מְכוֹנָה
A base gives the idea of a place held firm beneath what rests there.
nakhon: Established, firm, ready
נָכוֹן
This branch echoes the stability and readiness carried by the word for place.
עוֹלָמִים
ʿolamim
GROWS FROM
עלם
Traditionally linked with hiding or concealing; the etymological link to “age” is debated.
“for ever” in this verse is ʿolamim. The Hebrew עוֹלָמִים (ʿolamim, ages) is the plural of עוֹלָם (ʿolam, age). The word’s traditional association with עלם (ʿalam, hide) suggests a span whose far horizon lies beyond sight, while the plural keeps age after age in view.
ALSO GROWS
ʿolam: Age, long span
עוֹלָם
This is the singular form whose sense of duration underlies the verse’s phrase.
leʿolam: For an age, continually
לְעוֹלָם
This form expresses duration across an age.
ʿolamim: Ages
עוֹלָמִים
The verse uses this plural, letting the dwelling extend across successive ages.
THE PATTERN
God’s dwelling is pictured as presence that settles among people and remains.
And let them make me a sanctuary; that I may dwell among them.This is my rest for ever: here will I dwell; for I have desired it.Jesus answered and said unto him, If a man love me, he will keep my words: and my Father will love him, and we will come unto him, and make our abode with him.THE THREAD
This is my rest for ever: here will I dwell; for I have desired it.The Hebrew “I will dwell” is another form of yashab, the root behind “thy dwelling” here. Chronicles names a place prepared for God’s settled presence; the Psalm gives that same dwelling a voice as God’s own promise to remain.
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