What Does Genesis 25:5 Mean in the King James?
And Abraham gave all that he had unto Isaac.
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 Hebrew verb for Abraham’s giving also means setting or placing: the verse depicts everything he has placed into Isaac’s hands.
THE MEANING
This verse meets you where what you carry becomes what you entrust: Abraham places everything he has with Isaac. The receiver is Yitzchak, “he laughs,” so the whole gift passes to one whose name carries laughter.
THE ROOT
וַיִּתֵּן
wayyittēn
GROWS FROM
נתן
natan
To give, put, or set.
“gave” in this verse is wayyittēn. The Hebrew root holds giving and placing together. Abraham does not merely relinquish what he has; he places the whole of it with Isaac.
ALSO GROWS
natan: To give, put, or set.
נָתַן
This verb shows giving as a transfer that places something with its receiver.
mattanah: Gift or present.
מַתָּנָה
The same root names what is given, linking the act of giving to what the receiver holds.
יִצְחָק
Yitzḥaq
GROWS FROM
צחק
tzachaq
To laugh.
Isaac’s name grows from the same root as “laugh” and “laughter.” English presents it as a name alone; Hebrew lets the whole gift land in a name that carries laughter.
ALSO GROWS
tzachaq: To laugh; in some contexts, to mock.
צָחַק
The verb makes the laughter contained in Isaac’s name audible.
tsechoq: Laughter.
צְחוֹק
This noun makes the root’s quality explicit in the name of the one receiving everything.
THE PATTERN
What one holds is transferred whole into another’s hands through giving.
And Sarah my master’s wife bare a son to my master when she was old: and unto him hath he given all that he hath.The Father loveth the Son, and hath given all things into his hand.He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things?THE THREAD
And Sarah my master’s wife bare a son to my master when she was old: and unto him hath he given all that he hath.The Hebrew for “hath he given” comes from the same root נתן (natan, “give, put, set”), and the verse repeats “all that he hath.” That shared root and wording make Genesis 25:5 the fullness of the transfer already named.
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