What Does Nehemiah 11:25 Mean in the King James?
And for the villages, with their fields, some of the children of Judah dwelt at Kirjath-arba, and in the villages thereof, and at Dibon, and in the villages thereof, and at Jekabzeel, and in the villages thereof,
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 word for “villages” also carries the sense of an enclosure, placing Judah’s settled homes within the wider fields.
THE MEANING
Your belonging takes shape in lived places, not only in an abstract center. This verse holds villages and their surrounding fields together as one landscape of home and work.
THE ROOT
הַחֲצֵרִים
haḥăṣērîm
GROWS FROM
חצר
ḥ-ṣ-r
Enclosure, courtyard, or settled place.
English “villages” sounds like a point on a map, while the Hebrew word also carries the sense of a courtyard or enclosure. It holds the settlement as a bounded place within the broader fields.
ALSO GROWS
ḥāṣēr: Courtyard or enclosed space.
חָצֵר
This sense of the word gives the villages an image of settled, held places.
ḥăṣērîm: Villages or settlements.
חֲצֵרִים
This plural form names the communities where Judah’s people dwell, carrying the enclosure sense into the wider landscape.
יָשְׁבוּ
yāšəvû
GROWS FROM
ישב
y-š-b
To sit, settle, remain, or dwell.
English “dwelt” can sound like a location alone, but this root also carries sitting and settling: being present in a place. Beside the villages and fields, dwelling means taking a place within a living landscape.
ALSO GROWS
yāšav: To sit, remain, or dwell.
יָשַׁב
The base verb holds physical presence and settled residence together.
môshāv: A dwelling place, seat, or settlement.
מוֹשָׁב
This noun from the same root connects dwelling with the place where someone settles.
THE PATTERN
A people’s life takes visible shape through the places they inhabit and the land around them.
Abram dwelled in the land of Canaan, and Lot dwelled in the cities of the plain, and pitched his tent toward Sodom.But when ye go over Jordan, and dwell in the land which the LORD your God giveth you to inherit, and when he giveth you rest from all your enemies round about, so that ye dwell in safety;And there were dwelling at Jerusalem Jews, devout men, out of every nation under heaven.THE THREAD
Abram dwelled in the land of Canaan, and Lot dwelled in the cities of the plain, and pitched his tent toward Sodom.Both verses use יָשַׁב (yāšav, to settle or dwell) for taking up residence. Genesis names different kinds of places people inhabit, opening Nehemiah’s villages and fields as parts of a lived landscape.
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