What Does 2 Kings 13:8 Mean in the King James?
Now the rest of the acts of Jehoahaz, and all that he did, and his might, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?
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 root behind “acts” also names the “words” of the chronicles, so Jehoahaz’s might becomes part of a tellable, preserved account.
THE MEANING
You meet the verse at the edge between a life and its record: deeds and might become matters that can be told and preserved beyond their moment. Jehoahaz’s name means “YHWH has grasped,” placing a king’s strength beside a name that carries the sense of being held.
THE ROOT
דִּבְרֵי
divrei
GROWS FROM
דבר
d-b-r
To speak; in noun forms, a word, matter, or affair.
The word rendered “acts” is from the same root as “words” in “the book of the chronicles”, literally, the book of the matters of the days. The verse’s deeds are already bound to their telling: what Jehoahaz does becomes a matter entered into the record.
ALSO GROWS
davar: Word, matter, or affair.
דָּבָר
This noun holds together what English separates as speech and events, illuminating why “acts” can also be “matters” in the chronicle.
dibber: To speak or utter.
דִּבֵּר
This verbal branch shows the speaking within the record: Jehoahaz’s deeds persist as matters that can be recounted.
יְהוֹאָחָז
Yeho’achaz
GROWS FROM
אחז
ʾ-ḥ-z
To take hold, grasp, or seize.
“Jehoahaz” in this verse is Yeho’achaz. The name carries the phrase “YHWH has grasped.” Beside the verse’s mention of the king’s might, it gives his identity a second dimension: the one whose strength is recorded bears a name of being held.
ALSO GROWS
ʾāḥaz: To grasp, seize, or take hold.
אָחַז
This verb supplies the name’s image of being held.
ʾaḥuzzāh: A holding or possession.
אֲחֻזָּה
This related noun extends the root’s sense of something held or possessed, echoing the grasp carried in Jehoahaz’s name.
גְּבוּרָתוֹ
gevurato
GROWS FROM
גבר
g-b-r
To be strong or prevail.
The word for might shares its root with words for the mighty one and for prevailing. The verse places this force alongside all Jehoahaz did, making it one part of the account rather than the whole of it.
ALSO GROWS
gibbor: A mighty or strong person.
גִּבּוֹר
This branch gives human form to the strength named as Jehoahaz’s might.
gavar: To be strong or prevail.
גָּבַר
This verb shows the action within might: the capacity to prevail.
THE PATTERN
Deeds and words enter a record that can outlast the moment in which they happen.
And all the acts of his power and of his might, and the declaration of the greatness of Mordecai, whereunto the king advanced him, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Media and Persia?Then they that feared the LORD spake often one to another: and the LORD hearkened, and heard it, and a book of remembrance was written before him for them that feared the LORD, and that thought upon his name.And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the books were opened: and another book was opened, which is the book of life: and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works.THE THREAD
The preacher sought to find out acceptable words: and that which was written was upright, even words of truth.“Words” here comes from the same Hebrew root as “acts” and “chronicles” in 2 Kings. Ecclesiastes brings those words together with what is written, showing the record as matters shaped into speech and inscription.
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