What Does Esther 2:6 Mean in the King James?

Who had been carried away from Jerusalem with the captivity which had been carried away with Jeconiah king of Judah, whom Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon had carried away.

Esther 2:6 · KJV

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King James Version The King James Version, first published in 1611. Selah Verse shows the standard text.

This verse in the Selah Decoded Version

THE KEY

One Hebrew root names the captive, the exiles, and the king who expels them, making deportation the hinge that carries Jerusalem into Esther’s family line.

THE MEANING

The verse holds an origin and an imposed removal together: Jerusalem remains named beside Babylon, and the captive ancestor remains within a family line. Displacement changes where a person is held; it does not erase where the story begins.

WHAT THIS UNDOES

It undoes the belief that forced removal erases origin: the place left behind and the family line remain present in the account.

THE ROOT

הָגְלָה

hoglah

GROWS FROM

גלה

Uncover or reveal; in this verse’s forms, exile or deport.

English renders all three forms as “carried away,” but Hebrew repeats ⁨גלה⁩ across the exiled person, the exile itself, and the act of deporting. The root’s wider sense of uncovering adds a resonance of forced exposure, while the immediate sense here remains deportation.

ALSO GROWS

haggolah: the exile; the group carried away

הַגֹּלָה

This noun in the verse shares the root’s consonants, binding the person’s removal to the community’s exile.

niglah: be revealed, be uncovered

נִגְלָה

This form shows the root’s wider sense of uncovering, which adds a resonance of exposure to the verse’s forced removal.

heglah: he exiled, deported

הֶגְלָה

This causative form identifies the one doing the removal, shifting the verse’s focus from the captive to Nebuchadnezzar’s action.

THE PATTERN

Displacement moves people across lands while the text continues to carry their names and lineage forward.

Now these are the children of the province that went up out of the captivity, of those which had been carried away, whom Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon had carried away unto Babylon, and came again unto Jerusalem and Judah, every one unto his city;

Ezra 2:1 · KJVThe people named as carried away are also named as returning, with each one still connected to a city.

Thus saith the LORD, the God of Israel; Like these good figs, so will I acknowledge them that are carried away captive of Judah, whom I have sent out of this place into the land of the Chaldeans for their good.

Jeremiah 24:5 · KJVEven far from Judah, those carried away remain named and acknowledged.

And after they were brought to Babylon, Jechonias begat Salathiel; and Salathiel begat Zorobabel;

Matthew 1:12 · KJVThe genealogy continues through the Babylonian displacement, carrying a family line across the rupture.

THE THREAD

And he carried away Jehoiachin to Babylon, and the king’s mother, and the king’s wives, and his officers, and the mighty of the land, those carried he into captivity from Jerusalem to Babylon.

2 Kings 24:15 · KJV

The same root ⁨גלה⁩ shapes both verses: Esther repeats it through a family’s displacement, while Kings names the deportation from Jerusalem to Babylon. This connection places the family line inside the wider movement of people carried away.

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