What Does 2 Samuel 6:1 Mean in the King James?
Again, David gathered together all the chosen men of Israel, thirty thousand.
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 verb rendered “gathered together” also carries the sense of adding, so David’s gathering is pictured as Israel assembled again through addition.
THE MEANING
You are met as part of a people gathered again, not as an isolated figure. The verb behind “gathered together” also carries the sense of adding or continuing, giving the assembly a motion of renewal and increase. The count makes that gathering visible as a multitude.
THE ROOT
וַיֹּסֶף עוֹד
wayyōsef ʿod
GROWS FROM
יסף
Y-S-F
To add, increase, or continue.
“gathered together” in this verse is wayyōsef ʿod. The phrase joins wayyōsef, “he added” or “he continued,” with ʿod, “again” or “still.” Repetition carries the sense of further addition, so the gathering is renewed and enlarged.
ALSO GROWS
lehosif: To add.
לְהוֹסִיף
This infinitive makes explicit the addition carried within the verb describing David’s renewed gathering.
tosefet: Addition; something added.
תּוֹסֶפֶת
This noun shows the same root naming an increase, not only the act of doing something again.
דָּוִד
David
GROWS FROM
דוד
Beloved; beloved one.
David’s name carries the nature of the beloved. Beneath the public count, the gathering is narrated through a name rooted in relationship and affection.
ALSO GROWS
dod: Beloved; also a kinsman or uncle.
דּוֹד
This is the root word that carries the relational sense preserved in David’s name.
dodi: My beloved.
דּוֹדִי
The possessive form makes the root’s intimate sense explicit.
בָּחוּר
bachur
GROWS FROM
בחר
To choose or select.
“chosen” in this verse is bachur. The word for the gathered men is related to choosing and also carries the sense of a young man in his prime. The phrase holds selection and a multitude of living people together.
ALSO GROWS
bachir: Chosen one; one selected.
בָּחִיר
This form makes the root’s sense of selection visible in a person.
mibchar: Choice; the best or choicest.
מִבְחָר
This branch shows the root moving from choosing to what is selected.
THE PATTERN
A shared people takes shape through repeated gathering and addition.
Gather the people together, men, and women, and children, and thy stranger that is within thy gates, that they may hear, and that they may learn, and fear the LORD your God, and observe to do all the words of this law:And gathered them out of the lands, from the east, and from the west, from the north, and from the south.Praising God, and having favour with all the people. And the Lord added to the church daily such as should be saved.THE THREAD
And she called his name Joseph; and said, The LORD shall add to me another son.“Shall add” uses the same Hebrew root, יסף, as the verb rendered “gathered together” here. Joseph’s name preserves that same root, letting the gathering’s “again” also sound as an act of addition.
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