What Does Nehemiah 3:25 Mean in the King James?
Palal the son of Uzai, over against the turning of the wall, and the tower which lieth out from the king’s high house, that was by the court of the prison. After him Pedaiah the son of Parosh.
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 “tower” grows from גדל, “to grow or become great,” placing a rising structure beside the king’s upper house and the prison court.
THE MEANING
Here, the wall repair runs past the tower projecting from the king’s upper house beside the prison court. Palal’s work is followed by Pedaiah’s, and the rebuilding continues through adjoining places and hands.
THE ROOT
מִגְדָּל
migdal
GROWS FROM
גדל
grow, become great
The word for tower comes from גדל, the verb for growing or becoming great; height is carried in the word itself. The same root forms “grow” and “great,” so this rising structure stands within the king’s complex beside the prison court.
ALSO GROWS
gadal: to grow, become great
גָּדַל
This verb shares the root’s consonants and reveals the growth carried within the word for tower.
gadol: great, large
גָּדוֹל
This adjective shares the root’s consonants and joins the tower’s height to the Hebrew language of greatness.
THE PATTERN
Restoration advances through connected sections entrusted to different hands.
After him repaired Benjamin and Hashub over against their house. After him repaired Azariah the son of Maaseiah the son of Ananiah by his house.And they that shall be of thee shall build the old waste places: thou shalt raise up the foundations of many generations; and thou shalt be called, The repairer of the breach, The restorer of paths to dwell in.For we are labourers together with God: ye are God’s husbandry, ye are God’s building.THE THREAD
And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.Genesis uses the same Hebrew word, מִגְדָּל (migdal), for the tower. There, the builders say they want to make a name; here, the tower is part of the wall beside the king’s upper house and the prison court.
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