What Does Numbers 13:13 Mean in the King James?

Of the tribe of Asher, Sethur the son of Michael.

Numbers 13:13 · 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

Within Asher (⁨אָשֵׁר⁩, Asher, “flourishing”), Sethur (⁨סְתוּר⁩, Setur, “hidden”) is named as the son of Michael (⁨מִיכָאֵל⁩, Mika’el, “Who is like God?”), bringing flourishing, hiddenness, and divine likeness into one line.

THE MEANING

This line lets you hear identity in layers: the hidden one is held within Asher’s name of flourishing and Michael’s question, “Who is like God?” What remains concealed is present within that larger field, not outside it. The question of likeness stays open.

THE ROOT

סְתוּר

Setur

GROWS FROM

סתר

Hide, conceal.

The name carries the seed of concealment. Its branches name both what is hidden and a place of hiding, so Sethur’s name can hold hiddenness with the sense of shelter.

ALSO GROWS

seter: A hiding place; a secret.

סֵתֶר

The same root lets hiddenness name a place where something is kept out of sight.

nistar: Hidden; concealed.

נִסְתָּר

This branch makes explicit the quality carried in Sethur’s name.

אָשֵׁר

Asher

GROWS FROM

אשר

Be happy, fortunate; flourish.

Asher is more than an ancestry label: its name carries the language of flourishing. Beside Sethur, the verse holds flourishing and hiddenness together without explaining their relationship.

ALSO GROWS

ashar: To be happy or fortunate; to go forward.

אָשַׁר

This verb preserves the movement toward well-being within the name’s root.

ashrei: Flourishing.

אַשְׁרֵי

This familiar biblical branch makes the root’s note of well-being audible.

THE PATTERN

A scriptural name can carry the nature or calling that the verse makes visible.

And Adam called his wife’s name Eve; because she was the mother of all living.

Genesis 3:20 · KJVThe verse connects Eve’s name with the life she represents.

Neither shall thy name any more be called Abram, but thy name shall be Abraham; for a father of many nations have I made thee.

Genesis 17:5 · KJVThe changed name carries the nature and calling named in the verse.

And she shall bring forth a son, and thou shalt call his name JESUS: for he shall save his people from their sins.

Matthew 1:21 · KJVThe verse makes the child’s name inseparable from the deliverance he brings.

THE THREAD

For in the time of trouble he shall hide me in his pavilion: in the secret of his tabernacle shall he hide me; he shall set me up upon a rock.

Psalm 27:5 · KJV

The Hebrew root ⁨סתר⁩ (satar, “hide, conceal”) carried by Sethur appears in “shall he hide me” and “secret.” Here the same seed of hiddenness opens into a place of shelter.

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