What Does 2 Kings 8:6 Mean in the King James?
And when the king asked the woman, she told him. So the king appointed unto her a certain officer, saying, Restore all that was hers, and all the fruits of the field since the day that she left the land, even until now.
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 order to restore reaches beyond what she owned to every harvest the land produced while she was away.
THE MEANING
A rightful claim can be spoken aloud and answered in full. What returns includes the yield produced during the years of absence, so restoration reaches beyond the original possession to the interval itself.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
Absence does not automatically erase a claim, and time away does not make the yield from what was yours disappear.
THE ROOT
הָשִׁיבִי
hāshîvî
GROWS FROM
שׁוּב
shuv
To return or turn back; in this form, to cause something to return.
“Restore” in this verse is hāshîvî. The order is not merely to hand over a substitute: its root carries the sense of bringing back what belongs to her. The return extends across the whole account, including the years she was away.
ALSO GROWS
shav: Returned; turned back.
שָׁב
This basic form makes the motion inside “restore” visible: something comes back to its rightful place.
teshuvah: Return; turning back.
תְּשׁוּבָה
This noun carries the same return into the idea of a changed direction, echoing the movement from absence back to what is hers.
תְּבוּאַת
tevu'at
GROWS FROM
בוא
bo
To come or enter.
“Fruits” in this verse is tevu'at. The word for the field’s produce grows from a root meaning “come”: it is what comes in from the ground. The king’s order includes not only the land’s earlier yield but what came in throughout her absence.
ALSO GROWS
bo: To come; to enter.
בּוֹא
This is the root verb behind the produce word, making the harvest’s sense of “coming in” audible.
mavo: An entrance; an approach.
מָבוֹא
This related word also describes what comes in, connecting the field’s yield to the root’s wider language of arrival.
THE PATTERN
Restoration can reach beyond the original loss to include the multiplied or accumulated measure of what was lost.
And the LORD turned the captivity of Job, when he prayed for his friends: also the LORD gave Job twice as much as he had before.And I will restore to you the years that the locust hath eaten, the cankerworm, and the caterpiller, and the palmerworm, my great army which I sent among you.And Zacchæus stood, and said unto the Lord; Behold, Lord, the half of my goods I give to the poor; and if I have taken any thing from any man by false accusation, I restore him fourfold.THE THREAD
A Song of degrees. When the LORD turned again the captivity of Zion, we were like them that dream.“Turned again” comes from שׁוּב (shuv), the same root behind the order to restore. The psalm opens the verse into a wider return: what seemed lost can come back so unexpectedly that it feels like a dream.
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