What Does 2 Chronicles 8:7 Mean in the King James?

As for all the people that were left of the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites, which were not of Israel,

2 Chronicles 8:7 · KJV

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

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THE KEY

Hebrew names these peoples as what remains: survival is recorded as a roster, not a blank.

THE MEANING

A boundary can mark belonging without erasing those outside it. The verse holds both realities together: these peoples are not of Israel, and each remains visible by name.

WHAT THIS UNDOES

Being outside a boundary makes a people indistinguishable or absent.

THE ROOT

הַנּוֹתָר

han-notar

GROWS FROM

יתר

y-t-r

To remain over, be left as a remainder, or be in surplus.

The Hebrew word translated “left” describes what remains over. The same root can name a remainder or a surplus, making this list more than a label for what is absent: it records the distinct peoples who are still there.

ALSO GROWS

yeter: Remainder, rest, or surplus.

יֶתֶר

In Exodus 10:5, this word names the residue left after the hail, giving the root’s sense of what remains a concrete form.

yitron: Profit, advantage, or surplus.

יִתְרוֹן

Ecclesiastes 1:3 asks what profit remains from human labor, extending the same root’s sense of what is left over.

THE PATTERN

What remains after a dividing or destructive force is named as present, not treated as nothing.

Yet I have left me seven thousand in Israel, all the knees which have not bowed unto Baal, and every mouth which hath not kissed him.

1 Kings 19:18 · KJVThe survivors are counted and described, making the remainder visible rather than anonymous.

And it shall come to pass in that day, that the remnant of Israel, and such as are escaped of the house of Jacob, shall no more again stay upon him that smote them; but shall stay upon the LORD, the Holy One of Israel, in truth.

Isaiah 10:20 · KJVThose who remain after devastation are still identified as a people with a continuing place.

Even so then at this present time also there is a remnant according to the election of grace.

Romans 11:5 · KJVThe text names a present remnant, showing that what remains still counts.

THE THREAD

And they shall cover the face of the earth, that one cannot be able to see the earth: and they shall eat the residue of that which is escaped, which remaineth unto you from the hail, and shall eat every tree which groweth for you out of the field:

Exodus 10:5 · KJV

The Hebrew word translated “residue” shares the root ⁨יתר⁩ (y-t-r) with “left” in this verse. Both name what remains after something has passed over it, though Exodus’s residue faces another threat while these peoples remain distinct and named.

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