What Does 2 Kings 25:2 Mean in the King James?
And the city was besieged unto the eleventh year of king Zedekiah.
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
Hebrew casts the siege as a hard enclosure that turns the city’s narrowing into a measure of time: it holds until Zedekiah’s eleventh year.
THE MEANING
You may be living inside a narrowing that has become an environment rather than a moment; the verse names how long the enclosure holds without pretending it has lifted. Zedekiah’s name means “Yah is my alignment,” and the text lets that name stand beside a city still under siege.
THE ROOT
מָצוֹר
māṣôr
GROWS FROM
צור
ṣ-w-r
To bind, confine, or press in.
“besieged” in this verse is māṣôr. The Hebrew names the city as being within a matsor, an enclosure that governs its space. The root also yields tsur, “rock,” giving the siege the feel of a hard boundary rather than a passing blow.
ALSO GROWS
māṣôr: Siege; enclosure
מָצוֹר
This is the word in the verse: the city is held within a narrowing that lasts.
tsûr: Rock; a firm mass
צוּר
The root’s sense of firmness sharpens the image of an enclosure that holds its boundary.
צִדְקִיָּהוּ
Ṣidqiyyāhû
GROWS FROM
צדק
ṣ-d-q
To be right, just, or aligned.
“Zedekiah” in this verse is Ṣidqiyyāhû. The king’s name means “Yah is my alignment.” The verse places that name beside a city still under siege, without making the name erase the enclosure.
ALSO GROWS
tsedeq: Rightness; alignment
צֶדֶק
This is the root’s core sense and the meaning compressed into the king’s name.
tsaddiq: One who is right or aligned
צַדִּיק
This branch shows the root as a quality embodied in a person.
THE PATTERN
Constriction can hold a whole world inside its boundaries, while scripture also names movement from narrowness toward spaciousness.
I called upon the LORD in distress: the LORD answered me, and set me in a large place.Enlarge the place of thy tent, and let them stretch forth the curtains of thine habitations: spare not, lengthen thy cords, and strengthen thy stakes;We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed; we are perplexed, but not in despair;THE THREAD
I called upon the LORD in distress: the LORD answered me, and set me in a large place.The Hebrew word for the city’s siege, מָצוֹר (māṣôr, siege), echoes the consonants צ־ר in מֵּצַר (mēṣar, a narrow place), the word rendered “distress” here. Psalm 118:5 then sets that narrowing against מֶרְחָב (merḥāb, a broad place), opening the larger movement from constriction toward spaciousness.
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