What Does Leviticus 26:9 Mean in the King James?
For I will have respect unto you, and make you fruitful, and multiply you, and establish my covenant with you.
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
Before the verse names your growth, it says God turns toward you, and then makes the covenant stand with you.
THE MEANING
You are met by a turning toward you, followed by fruitfulness and increase. The covenant is made to stand with you, placing growth inside a relationship that holds. The verse moves from regard to abundance to lasting belonging.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
The verse undoes the belief that you must first prove your fruitfulness to be met: its first movement is God turning toward you.
THE ROOT
וַהֲקִמֹתִי
va-haqimoti
GROWS FROM
קום
קום (qum) means to rise, stand, or be made to stand.
“establish” in this verse is va-haqimoti. Here, establishment is more than a signature: the covenant is made to stand with you. The same root forms words for a place and for rising, giving the promise both footing and life that can rise.
ALSO GROWS
maqom: place, location
מָקוֹם
This word comes from the same root: a place is where something stands, giving the covenant’s establishment the sense of settled footing.
tequmah: rising, restoration
תְּקוּמָה
The root also names rising or restoration, showing establishment as life brought into a standing state.
THE PATTERN
Fruitfulness and increase flow from a life held in relationship with its source.
And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that bringeth forth his fruit in his season; his leaf also shall not wither; and whatsoever he doeth shall prosper.I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing.THE THREAD
And I will establish my covenant between me and thee and thy seed after thee in their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be a God unto thee, and to thy seed after thee.Here too, “establish” is the same root’s make-to-stand verb. Genesis extends the covenant across generations; Leviticus brings that standing promise into direct address: “with you.”
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