What Does 2 Samuel 24:7 Mean in the King James?
And came to the strong hold of Tyre, and to all the cities of the Hivites, and of the Canaanites: and they went out to the south of Judah, even to Beer-sheba.
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
Beer-sheba gathers the route into a name where “seven” and “oath” share one Hebrew root.
THE MEANING
The verse sets a route from a stronghold through named peoples and cities to Judah’s southern edge at Beer-sheba. The endpoint carries another layer: its name joins a well with “seven,” while the same Hebrew root also forms “oath.”
THE ROOT
שֶׁבַע
shevaʿ
GROWS FROM
שׁבע
Seven; the same consonantal root also forms the verb “to swear” and the noun “oath.”
The name Beer-sheba can be heard as “well of seven” and as “well of the oath.” That shared root lets the route’s endpoint hold number and pledged speech together.
ALSO GROWS
shevaʿ: Seven
שֶׁבַע
It gives the place-name its “seven” sense.
shevuʿah: Oath
שְׁבוּעָה
It reveals the pledge contained in the same root as “seven.”
THE PATTERN
Scripture lets a name carry a second layer of meaning beyond its role as a label.
Wherefore he called that place Beer-sheba; because there they sware both of them.And he called the name of that place Beth-el: but the name of that city was called Luz at the first.And he brought him to Jesus. And when Jesus beheld him, he said, Thou art Simon the son of Jona: thou shalt be called Cephas, which is by interpretation, A stone.THE THREAD
Wherefore he called that place Beer-sheba; because there they sware both of them.Genesis 21:31 makes the oath sense audible by connecting Beer-sheba with swearing. That gives this verse’s endpoint a second register: its name holds both seven and pledged speech.
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