What Does 2 Kings 10:33 Mean in the King James?
From Jordan eastward, all the land of Gilead, the Gadites, and the Reubenites, and the Manassites, from Aroer, which is by the river Arnon, even Gilead and Bashan.
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 Jordan is both a river and a boundary: its name carries the motion of descent while its course marks the edge of the land named here.
THE MEANING
This line gives territorial loss a shape: the Jordan marks an edge, and Gilead, Bashan, and the named tribes fill in what lies beyond it. What is under pressure is not abstract; it has a geography and names.
THE ROOT
יַרְדֵּן
Yarden
GROWS FROM
ירד
To descend or go down.
The name Jordan is linked to yarad, “to descend,” carrying the river’s downward movement within its name. Here that moving course also serves as a clear edge, making the territory beyond it legible.
ALSO GROWS
yārad: To descend, go down.
יָרַד
This verb shares the river’s root and makes the downward movement inside the name visible.
yored: One who is going down; descending.
יוֹרֵד
This form keeps the root’s sense of movement, which gives the Jordan’s use as a geographic boundary an added dimension.
THE PATTERN
Scripture makes belonging to a land concrete by naming its boundaries and the people who dwell within them.
In the same day the LORD made a covenant with Abram, saying, Unto thy seed have I given this land, from the river of Egypt unto the great river, the river Euphrates:And hath made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth, and hath determined the times before appointed, and the bounds of their habitation;THE THREAD
And the priests that bare the ark of the covenant of the LORD stood firm on dry ground in the midst of Jordan, and all the Israelites passed over on dry ground, until all the people were passed clean over Jordan.The same Jordan marks a limit here and a passage in Joshua. There it opens a way across; here its course fixes the edge of a named territory.
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