What Does Deuteronomy 2:16 Mean in the King James?
So it came to pass, when all the men of war were consumed and dead from among the people,
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
At the root, “consumed” carries completion: the men of war reach the end of their lives until none remains among the people.
THE MEANING
You meet the full measure of an ending here: death has taken every man of war from among the people. The fighting generation is wholly absent, and the verse does not soften the loss.
THE ROOT
תַּמּוּ
tammû
GROWS FROM
תמם
To be complete, finished, or brought to an end.
תַּמּוּ (tammu, “they came to an end”) names the men of war as a group that has reached its endpoint. The same root can describe a year ending or something whole, so it carries a sense of completion beneath the English “consumed.”
ALSO GROWS
vattitom: And it was completed or ended; in Genesis 47:18, the year comes to its end.
וַתִּתֹּם
The same root marks the end of a year there, making completion the shared thread between a span of time and the last of this group’s lives.
tamim: Whole, complete; rendered “perfect” in Genesis 6:9.
תָּמִים
This branch shows the root’s sense of wholeness: here, the group’s ending is complete because no one remains among the people.
THE PATTERN
A course reaches completion when its full span has run its course.
When that year was ended, they came unto him the second year, and said unto him, We will not hide it from my lord, how that our money is spent; my lord also hath our herds of cattle; there is not ought left in the sight of my lord, but our bodies, and our lands:For the children of Israel walked forty years in the wilderness, till all the people that were men of war, which came out of Egypt, were consumed, because they obeyed not the voice of the LORD: unto whom the LORD sware that he would not shew them the land, which the LORD sware unto their fathers that he would give us, a land that floweth with milk and honey.I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith:THE THREAD
When that year was ended, they came unto him the second year, and said unto him, We will not hide it from my lord, how that our money is spent; my lord also hath our herds of cattle; there is not ought left in the sight of my lord, but our bodies, and our lands:The Hebrew root תמם (tamam, “be complete or come to an end”) is used when the year reaches its end there, as it is when the men of war finish dying here. The same word links a completed year with a whole generation gone.
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