What Does Daniel 11:13 Mean in the King James?
For the king of the north shall return, and shall set forth a multitude greater than the former, and shall certainly come after certain years with a great army and with much riches.
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 return is no simple replay: he comes back with a swelling host and greater means to act.
THE MEANING
The verse shows a force returning after an interval, larger than before and carrying an army and abundant wealth. It speaks to you now about how conflict can gather strength during a pause: a returning force may have more reach than it did before.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
It undoes the belief that a threat has necessarily lost its power just because it has been absent.
THE ROOT
יָשׁוּב
yāshûv
GROWS FROM
שׁוּב
To turn back or return.
The king’s arrival is framed by the root of turning back: this is a force that comes around again. Here the return carries an increase with it, the host is greater than before, so recurrence is not a reset.
ALSO GROWS
shav: Turned back or came again.
שָׁב
This is the same root in a returned form, making the verse’s repeated arrival explicit.
hēshîv: Caused something to return or brought it back.
הֵשִׁיב
The causative branch shows the root can describe bringing something back, as well as returning oneself.
חַיִל
ḥayil
GROWS FROM
ח־י־ל
Force, strength, or capacity.
חַיִל (ḥayil) can name an army, but the same word also carries the sense of strength, capacity, and wealth. The verse’s force is therefore more than a count of soldiers: it arrives with gathered means, which the separate phrase “much riches” makes plain.
ALSO GROWS
ḥayil: An armed host or military power.
חַיִל
This is the word used for the king’s great army in the verse.
ḥayil: Material means or wealth; the word is used for “wealth” in Deuteronomy 8:17.
חַיִל
This shade links military power with accumulated resources, deepening the force of the king’s return.
הָמוֹן
hāmôn
GROWS FROM
הָמָה
To roar, murmur, or make a tumult.
The word for multitude grows from a root of roaring and tumult. The host is not only large enough to count; it is imagined as a mass whose presence can be heard.
ALSO GROWS
hāmôn: A crowd, abundance, or loud commotion.
הָמוֹן
This is the verse’s word for the enlarged host.
hāmāh: To make a loud, turbulent sound.
הָמָה
This verbal branch reveals the sound and commotion contained in the image of the multitude.
THE PATTERN
A force that regroups during an interval can return with greater numbers and gathered means.
And it came to pass at the return of the year, that Ben-hadad numbered the Syrians, and went up to Aphek, to fight against Israel.And shall go out to deceive the nations which are in the four quarters of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them together to battle: the number of whom is as the sand of the sea.THE THREAD
So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it.Isaiah uses the same root, שׁוּב (shuv, return), for the word that comes back having accomplished its purpose. The shared root opens up “return” as more than repetition: what comes back can carry the outcome of what has happened in the interval.
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