What Does Ezra 8:32 Mean in the King James?
And we came to Jerusalem, and abode there three days.
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
They reach Yerushalayim, a name carrying wholeness, then stay long enough for arrival to become dwelling.
THE MEANING
You come to Yerushalayim, a name carrying the sound of wholeness, and stay there three days. Arrival unfolds into dwelling: what you reach becomes a place you inhabit, with a measured pause inside it.
THE ROOT
יְרוּשָׁלַיִם
Yerushalayim
GROWS FROM
שׁלם
sh-l-m
To be whole, complete, or sound.
“Jerusalem” in this verse is Yerushalayim. Heard through the שׁלם (sh-l-m) word family, the city’s name carries a resonance of wholeness. The travelers arrive there and remain, so the name’s sense of wholeness becomes a place they inhabit.
ALSO GROWS
shalom: Wholeness, well-being, peace.
שָׁלוֹם
This branch makes audible the wholeness carried in the destination’s name.
shalem: Whole, complete.
שָׁלֵם
It shows the root’s sense of completeness as something present in the name Yerushalayim.
וַנֵּשֶׁב
wanneshev
GROWS FROM
ישב
y-sh-b
To sit, remain, or dwell.
The verb translated “abode” belongs to a root that holds sitting and dwelling together. The travelers do not merely pass through the place they have reached; they settle there for a time.
ALSO GROWS
yāshav: To sit, remain, dwell.
יָשַׁב
The root itself joins bodily stillness with staying in a place.
mōshāv: A dwelling place, seat, or settlement.
מוֹשָׁב
This branch makes dwelling into a place of settled presence, echoing the travelers’ stay.
THE PATTERN
What is reached becomes a place to dwell in.
Then Abram removed his tent, and came and dwelt in the plain of Mamre, which is in Hebron, and built there an altar unto the LORD.Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life: and I will dwell in the house of the LORD for ever.And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.THE THREAD
Pray for the peace of Jerusalem: they shall prosper that love thee.Psalm 122 places Jerusalem beside שָׁלוֹם (shalom), wholeness, from the same שׁלם (sh-l-m) word family. Ezra’s travelers arrive at the city whose name carries that resonance, then remain there.
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