What Does Ezekiel 36:11 Mean in the King James?
And I will multiply upon you man and beast; and they shall increase and bring fruit: and I will settle you after your old estates, and will do better unto you than at your beginnings: and ye shall know that I am the LORD.
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 same Hebrew root describes God multiplying life and that life increasing, so restoration becomes generative rather than a mere return.
THE MEANING
Renewal is tangible here: people and animals increase, fruit returns, and settled life grows beyond its former beginning. You know the LORD through encountering that restoration as life comes back and exceeds what came before.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
Restoration can only return you to what you had before.
THE ROOT
הִרְבֵּיתִי
hirbeiti
GROWS FROM
רבה
r-b-h
To become many; to multiply or increase.
“multiply / increase” in this verse is hirbeiti. The verse uses this root first for God’s action, “I will multiply”, and then for what happens to the people: “they shall increase.” The abundance is not static; the life restored becomes abundant in itself.
ALSO GROWS
rov: Multitude, abundance.
רֹב
This noun names the fullness produced by the multiplying action.
merubeh: Numerous, abundant.
מְרֻבֶּה
This form describes the resulting state of increase that the verse promises.
וּפָרוּ
u-faru
GROWS FROM
פרה
p-r-h
To bear fruit; to be fruitful.
“bring fruit” in this verse is u-faru. The people do not only become more numerous; they become fruitful. The root links the act of bearing fruit with fruit itself, so restoration appears as life that produces what can nourish and continue life.
ALSO GROWS
peri: Fruit, produce.
פְּרִי
The noun names the visible result of the fruitfulness promised here.
hifrah: Made fruitful, caused to bear fruit.
הִפְרָה
This causative form shows fruitfulness as something brought about, echoing the verse’s promise of restored life.
וִידַעְתֶּם
vidaʿtem
GROWS FROM
ידע
y-d-ʿ
To know, perceive, recognize.
“know” in this verse is vidaʿtem. This is knowing by encounter, not merely holding information. The verse joins knowing the LORD to the lived experience of restored people, fruitful land, and settled life.
ALSO GROWS
daʿat: Knowledge, understanding.
דַּעַת
This noun carries the root’s sense of knowing into the understanding that grows from encounter.
yediʿah: Knowledge, awareness.
יְדִיעָה
This related noun points to recognition made possible by what is experienced.
THE PATTERN
Restored life becomes outwardly fruitful and abundant.
He blesseth them also, so that they are multiplied greatly; and suffereth not their cattle to decrease.For as the rain cometh down, and the snow from heaven, and returneth not thither, but watereth the earth, and maketh it bring forth and bud, that it may give seed to the sower, and bread to the eater:But he that received seed into the good ground is he that heareth the word, and understandeth it; which also beareth fruit, and bringeth forth, some an hundredfold, some sixty, some thirty.THE THREAD
And God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let fowl multiply in the earth.Genesis and Ezekiel use the same roots, פָּרָה (parah, be fruitful) and רָבָה (ravah, multiply). Restoration therefore carries the language of renewed creation: the life that was diminished becomes fruitful and multiplies again.
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