What Does Isaiah 11:11 Mean in the King James?
And it shall come to pass in that day, that the Lord shall set his hand again the second time to recover the remnant of his people, which shall be left, from Assyria, and from Egypt, and from Pathros, and from Cush, and from Elam, and from Shinar, and from Hamath, and from the islands of the sea.
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 calls both the “remnant” and those “left” by the same root, while describing God’s action as acquiring them again.
THE MEANING
The verse speaks to life that feels scattered now: what remains is still within the reach of God’s hand. From Mitzrayim’s constriction to the farthest shore, distance does not erase belonging or prevent gathering.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
It undoes the belief that what remains after loss is abandoned or too scattered to be reclaimed.
THE ROOT
שְׁאָר
she'ar
GROWS FROM
שאר
sha'ar
Remain; be left over.
The verse uses this root for both the “remnant” and what is “left.” English makes the group and its condition sound separate; Hebrew binds them as what remains, still gathered by God’s hand.
ALSO GROWS
she'erit: Remnant; remainder.
שְׁאֵרִית
This related noun names what is left over, echoing the verse’s description of the people being gathered.
yisha'er: Will remain; will be left.
יִשָּׁאֵר
This is the same root used for “left” in the verse, linking the surviving people directly to the remnant.
לִקְנוֹת
liqnot
GROWS FROM
קנה
qanah
Acquire, obtain, or buy.
The Hebrew beneath “recover” is the verb “acquire.” The image carries more than a return from distant places: God reaches out again to claim the people who remain.
ALSO GROWS
qaniti: I acquired; I got.
קָנִיתִי
The same root can describe obtaining something, giving “recover” the sense of renewed acquisition.
qoneh: One who acquires; possessor.
קוֹנֶה
This form makes the root’s language of possession visible beneath the act of gathering.
יוֹסִיף
yôsîf
GROWS FROM
יסף
yasaf
Add, increase, or do again.
The verse uses a verb meaning “add” alongside “the second time.” The repeated action is framed as God adding his hand again, extending the gathering to a further moment.
ALSO GROWS
yosef: Joseph; “he adds.”
יוֹסֵף
The name carries the same root of adding, showing how the root can describe a nature compressed into a name.
vattosef: And she added; and she did again.
וַתֹּסֶף
This form shows how the root of adding also expresses doing something once more.
THE PATTERN
What remains scattered is still within reach of a gathering hand.
The Lord GOD which gathereth the outcasts of Israel saith, Yet will I gather others to him, beside those that are gathered unto him.As a shepherd seeketh out his flock in the day that he is among his sheep that are scattered; so will I seek out my sheep, and will deliver them out of all places where they have been scattered in the cloudy and dark day.And not for that nation only, but that also he should gather together in one the children of God that were scattered abroad.THE THREAD
The remnant shall return, even the remnant of Jacob, unto the mighty God.Isaiah 10:21 repeats שאר (sha’ar), the root behind both “remnant” and “left” here. The people gathered in Isaiah 11:11 are the same people named by what remains.
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