What Does Hebrews 6:14 Mean in the King James?
Saying, Surely blessing I will bless thee, and multiplying I will multiply thee.
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 Greek repeats its blessing verb before naming multiplication, joining good spoken over a life to life expanding.
THE MEANING
You encounter blessing as spoken good paired with increase: the verse holds the two together rather than leaving blessing as a title. Its repeated verb makes the assurance emphatic, and multiplication gives that assurance a visible shape.
THE ROOT
εὐλογῶν
eulogōn
GROWS FROM
λογ
log
say, speak; word. In the full verb, this base combines with a prefix meaning well.
The Greek verb holds a speaking sense inside blessing: it is good spoken over someone. Its repeated form sits beside multiplication, so speech and increase arrive as one paired promise.
ALSO GROWS
legō: say, speak
λέγω
This verb makes the speaking action inside blessing visible.
logos: word, speech
λόγος
This noun shares the speaking root beneath the verse’s word for blessing.
eulogia: blessing, praise
εὐλογία
This noun form shows the same word family naming the blessing itself.
בָּרַךְ
barakh
GROWS FROM
ברך
brk
bend, kneel; bless.
In the Hebrew wording of the quoted promise, blessing remains connected to the knee and the act of bending. The word carries a bodily posture beneath the good spoken in the promise.
ALSO GROWS
berekh: knee
בֶּרֶךְ
The shared root reveals the bodily image carried beneath the word for blessing.
berakhah: blessing
בְּרָכָה
This noun form keeps the promise’s blessing connected to the same root.
THE PATTERN
Blessing moves outward as increase, making the good spoken visible in what grows.
That in blessing I will bless thee, and in multiplying I will multiply thy seed as the stars of the heaven, and as the sand which is upon the sea shore; and thy seed shall possess the gate of his enemies;And he will love thee, and bless thee, and multiply thee: he will also bless the fruit of thy womb, and the fruit of thy land, thy corn, and thy wine, and thine oil, the increase of thy kine, and the flocks of thy sheep, in the land which he sware unto thy fathers to give thee.Now he that ministereth seed to the sower both minister bread for your food, and multiply your seed sown, and increase the fruits of your righteousness;)THE THREAD
That in blessing I will bless thee, and in multiplying I will multiply thy seed as the stars of the heaven, and as the sand which is upon the sea shore; and thy seed shall possess the gate of his enemies;Genesis contains the longer form of the promise that Hebrews carries forward as its blessing-and-multiplication pair. Its image of seed beyond counting makes the movement from spoken blessing to visible increase concrete.
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