What Does Ecclesiastes 2:5 Mean in the King James?

I made me gardens and orchards, and I planted trees in them of all kind of fruits:

Ecclesiastes 2:5 · KJV

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 abundance here is rooted life: the fruit begins with what is planted.

THE MEANING

You meet abundance as a living process: a place is shaped, trees are planted, and fruit grows from rooted life. The verse holds human making together with the life that can grow within what has been made.

THE ROOT

וְנָטַעְתִּי

wə-nāṭaʿtî

GROWS FROM

נטע

nāṭaʿ: to plant, setting a living thing into the soil.

The verse’s “I planted” comes from ⁨נטע⁩ (nāṭaʿ, “plant”). Its abundance is pictured as rooted life: trees are placed in the garden, and fruit grows from what has been planted.

ALSO GROWS

netiʿah: planting; a plant or plantation

נְטִיעָה

This noun carries the same root consonants, ⁨נטע⁩, and shows planting as both an act and the living growth that results.

mattaʿ: planting; plantation

מַטָּע

This word shares the root consonants ⁨נטע⁩ and names a place or collection of planted growth, like the garden in the verse.

netaʿ: a plant or sapling

נֶטַע

This word shares the root consonants ⁨נטע⁩ and points to the living thing set into the ground.

THE PATTERN

Fruitful abundance takes shape when life is planted into a prepared place and allowed to grow.

And the LORD God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed.

Genesis 2:8 · KJVA garden becomes a dwelling place through planting, joining prepared space with living growth.

And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that bringeth forth his fruit in his season; his leaf also shall not wither; and whatsoever he doeth shall prosper.

Psalm 1:3 · KJVA planted tree bears fruit in its season, making rootedness the source of flourishing.

I have planted, Apollos watered; but God gave the increase.

1 Corinthians 3:6 · KJVPlanting begins the growth, while increase emerges from the life that follows.

THE THREAD

And the LORD God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed.

Genesis 2:8 · KJV

The Hebrew verb ⁨וַיִּטַּע⁩ (vayyittaʿ, “planted”) shares the root ⁨נטע⁩ (nāṭaʿ, “plant”) with ⁨וְנָטַעְתִּי⁩ (wə-nāṭaʿtî, “and I planted”) here. Together, the verses show a garden taking shape as a place prepared through planting and made alive by what grows there.

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