What Does Leviticus 25:19 Mean in the King James?

And the land shall yield her fruit, and ye shall eat your fill, and dwell therein in safety.

Leviticus 25:19 · 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

Here, abundance is provision that reaches both a satisfied body and a place where life can dwell securely.

THE MEANING

The land gives its fruit, you eat until satisfied, and you dwell there securely. The verse joins nourishment and safety as parts of a life with enough room to settle.

THE ROOT

וְנָתְנָה

venatnah

GROWS FROM

נתן

give, set, place

The verb translated “yield” is the ordinary Hebrew verb for giving. The land’s fruit is pictured as something given, so the verse links the earth’s productivity with the act of provision.

ALSO GROWS

natan: give, set, place

נָתַן

This is the same root verb, showing that the land’s “yielding” carries the sense of giving.

mattanah: gift

מַתָּנָה

This related noun makes visible the same root’s connection between giving and what is given.

לָשֹׂבַע

lasova

GROWS FROM

שבע

be satisfied, be full

“fill” in this verse is lasova. The phrase names satiety: eating until the body has enough. The root connects fullness with satisfaction, making the land’s yield measurable in lived sufficiency rather than yield alone.

ALSO GROWS

savea: satisfied, full

שָׂבֵעַ

This adjective from the same root describes the state the meal reaches.

sevi'ah: satiety, satisfaction

שְׂבִיעָה

This related noun names the fullness that eating produces.

לָבֶטַח

labetach

GROWS FROM

בטח

trust, feel secure

The word translated “safety” belongs to a root that also means to trust or feel secure. The verse’s provision culminates in being able to dwell on the land with confidence, not merely to eat from it.

ALSO GROWS

batach: trust, feel secure

בָּטַח

The related verb shows the trust-bearing sense inside the word for dwelling securely.

mivtach: refuge, confidence, security

מִבְטָח

This noun from the same root connects security with a place or condition one can rely on.

THE PATTERN

Flourishing joins provision enough to satisfy with a life that can settle without fear.

And I will send grass in thy fields for thy cattle, that thou mayest eat and be full.

Deuteronomy 11:15 · KJVThe field’s growth reaches the body as fullness, showing provision arriving as enough.

But they shall sit every man under his vine and under his fig tree; and none shall make them afraid: for the mouth of the LORD of hosts hath spoken it.

Micah 4:4 · KJVFruit-bearing vines and figs appear alongside freedom from fear, joining provision with security.

And having food and raiment let us be therewith content.

1 Timothy 6:8 · KJVFood and clothing mark a sufficiency that can be received as enough.

THE THREAD

Then shall the earth yield her increase; and God, even our own God, shall bless us.

Psalm 67:6 · KJV

In both verses, the Hebrew uses the root ⁨נתן⁩ (natan), meaning “give,” for what the earth yields. The shared root lets the earth’s increase read as provision given, linking its fruitfulness to the life it sustains.

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