What Does 2 Chronicles 6:4 Mean in the King James?
And he said, Blessed be the LORD God of Israel, who hath with his hands fulfilled that which he spake with his mouth to my father David, saying,
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 verse makes God’s hands the fullness of what God’s mouth speaks.
THE MEANING
God’s speech takes form: what he says is brought to its full measure by his hands. The reader encounters this living pattern wherever a spoken word becomes present in action.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
It undoes the belief that a word from God can remain only sound, with no life or action in it.
THE ROOT
מִלֵּא
mille
GROWS FROM
מלא
M-L-ʾ
To be full; to fill.
The verb translated “fulfilled” comes from the root for filling and fullness. The spoken promise is pictured as receiving its full measure through God’s hands.
ALSO GROWS
maleʾ: To be full; to fill.
מָלֵא
This is the same fill-and-fullness family as the verb in the verse, giving “fulfilled” the image of something brought to fullness.
milluʾim: Consecration or ordination; literally, “fillings” of the hands.
מִלּוּאִים
The Hebrew idiom of filling the hands uses this root, echoing the verse’s image of hands giving a spoken word its full expression.
דִּבֶּר
dibbēr
GROWS FROM
דבר
D-B-R
To speak or declare; the same root also forms a noun for a word or matter.
The verb “spake” and the noun davar share the consonants דבר. Hebrew’s word-family links speech with a word or matter, while the verse’s hands show that speech arriving at completion.
ALSO GROWS
dābār: Word; matter or thing.
דָּבָר
The same root joins what is spoken with the matter itself, opening a connection between the mouth’s word and what the hands bring about.
dibbēr: He spoke; he declared.
דִּבֵּר
This is the spoken action in the verse, from the same family that names a word or matter.
דָּוִד
Dāwīd
GROWS FROM
דוד
D-W-D
Beloved; the name is traditionally connected with this word-family.
David’s name echoes dod, “beloved.” The promise is spoken to the beloved, giving the verse’s account of fulfillment a relational resonance.
ALSO GROWS
dod: Beloved; also a kinship term for uncle in some contexts.
דּוֹד
This word-family is traditionally connected with David’s name.
dodim: Loves or caresses.
דּוֹדִים
This related form in Song of Songs carries the root’s association with belovedness into expressions of affection.
THE PATTERN
A spoken word becomes visible when it is filled out in action.
For he spake, and it was done; he commanded, and it stood fast.So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it.All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made.THE THREAD
So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it.The Hebrew word translated “word” here is davar (דָּבָר), from the same דבר family as “spake” in Solomon’s sentence. Isaiah makes explicit the movement this verse pictures: the word goes out and accomplishes its purpose.
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