What Does Genesis 30:43 Mean in the King James?

And the man increased exceedingly, and had much cattle, and maidservants, and menservants, and camels, and asses.

Genesis 30:43 · 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 word translated “increased” pictures growth breaking through its former boundary and spilling outward.

THE MEANING

The verse gives increase a visible, concrete shape: flocks, servants, camels, and donkeys fill the scene. Its movement is outward expansion, expressed through many forms of possession.

THE ROOT

וַיִּפְרֹץ

vayifrotz

GROWS FROM

פרץ

Break through, burst out, or spread beyond a boundary.

English “increased” makes the change sound like a quantity simply rising. The Hebrew root also opens a picture of a boundary giving way, with growth breaking outward.

ALSO GROWS

perets: A breach or break-through.

פֶּרֶץ

A breach is an opening through a boundary, the physical image beneath this verse’s outward increase.

happorets: One who breaks through or opens a way.

הַפּוֹרֵץ

This branch makes the root’s motion visible: what was held behind a limit now has a way through.

THE PATTERN

Increase is pictured as outward expansion that becomes visible across many forms.

And the man waxed great, and went forward, and grew until he became very great:

Genesis 26:13 · KJVGrowth is described as movement that continues forward until it becomes unmistakable.

And when thy herds and thy flocks multiply, and thy silver and thy gold is multiplied, and all that thou hast is multiplied;

Deuteronomy 8:13 · KJVIncrease spreads through different parts of life, from livestock to possessions.

And other fell on good ground, and did yield fruit that sprang up and increased; and brought forth, some thirty, and some sixty, and some an hundred.

Mark 4:8 · KJVThe seed’s growth becomes visible in fruit and multiplies beyond its beginning.

THE THREAD

And thy seed shall be as the dust of the earth, and thou shalt spread abroad to the west, and to the east, and to the north, and to the south: and in thee and in thy seed shall all the families of the earth be blessed.

Genesis 28:14 · KJV

Here the same root, ⁨וּפָרַצְתָּ⁩ (u-faratzta, spread abroad), is followed by west, east, north, and south. The shared verb reveals the increase in Genesis 30:43 as expansion breaking through boundaries and taking form in what the verse lists.

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