What Does 2 Kings 15:33 Mean in the King James?
Five and twenty years old was he when he began to reign, and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem. And his mother’s name was Jerusha, the daughter of Zadok.
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 king’s record binds his reign to two names that carry inheritance and alignment.
THE MEANING
A title and its duration do not contain a whole life. This verse places a king within a maternal line, naming his mother and her father beside his reign. Your visible role, too, rests within relationships and inheritances that precede you.
THE ROOT
יְרוּשָׁא
Yərūšāʾ
GROWS FROM
ירש
To inherit or take possession.
Jerusha’s name is linked to the ירש (y-r-sh; yarash) family, where possession and inheritance grow from one seed. The name carries the idea of what is received and held across generations, fitting the verse’s attention to maternal lineage.
ALSO GROWS
yarash: To inherit, possess, or take possession.
יָרַשׁ
The name’s root carries the sense of receiving and holding what comes through a line.
yerushah: Inheritance or possession.
יְרֻשָּׁה
This related form makes inheritance audible within Jerusha’s name.
צָדוֹק
Tsadoq
GROWS FROM
צדק
To be right or just; to stand in alignment.
Zadok carries the צדק (ts-d-q; tsadaq) root, which also gives tzedek, alignment, and tzaddiq, an aligned or just person. The verse places this name beside kingship, keeping alignment in view alongside rank.
ALSO GROWS
tzedek: Alignment, justice, or what is right.
צֶדֶק
It reveals the root idea carried in Zadok’s name.
tzaddiq: An aligned or just person.
צַדִּיק
This branch gives the root a personal shape, linking alignment to a person named in the king’s family line.
THE PATTERN
Biblical names often compress a person’s story or nature into a single word.
And Adam called his wife’s name Eve; because she was the mother of all living.And the child grew, and she brought him unto Pharaoh’s daughter, and he became her son. And she called his name Moses: and she said, Because I drew him out of the water.And she shall bring forth a son, and thou shalt call his name JESUS: for he shall save his people from their sins.THE THREAD
And he said unto him, I am the LORD that brought thee out of Ur of the Chaldees, to give thee this land to inherit it.Jerusha’s name is linked to ירש (y-r-sh; yarash), meaning to inherit or take possession; Genesis 15:7 uses the same root in “inherit it.” The connection opens inheritance in 2 Kings beyond a family label, as a recurring thread in the life the verse addresses.
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