What Does Numbers 13:9 Mean in the King James?
Of the tribe of Benjamin, Palti the son of Raphu.
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
Palti’s name carries escape and deliverance, while Raphu’s carries healing: the line places release and restoration side by side.
THE MEANING
This line meets you through names that carry more than identification: Palti echoes escape and deliverance, and Raphu echoes healing. It holds release and restored wholeness together in one brief family line.
THE ROOT
פַּלְטִי
Palṭî
GROWS FROM
פלט
Escape, slip away; cause to escape or deliver.
Palti carries the root פלט (pālaṭ), often understood in this name as “my escape” or “my deliverance.” English preserves the name but hides the root’s language of getting out of danger.
ALSO GROWS
pālîṭ: Survivor, one who escapes.
פָּלִיט
This branch makes the name’s escape-language visible as a person who gets through danger.
miplāṭ: Refuge, escape.
מִפְלָט
The same root can name both the act of escaping and the place of safety that makes escape possible.
רָפוּא
Rāfū
GROWS FROM
רפא
Heal, restore to health.
Raphu belongs to the רפא (rapha) family of healing. Beside Palti, the name lets the line hold both movement out of danger and the return of wholeness.
ALSO GROWS
rōfē: Healer.
רֹפֵא
This branch presents healing as the work of restoring a person.
refu’ah: Healing, recovery.
רְפוּאָה
The root names the restoration itself, echoing the healing carried in Raphu’s name.
THE PATTERN
Scripture compresses meaning into names, so a name carries more than identification.
And the child grew, and she brought him unto Pharaoh’s daughter, and he became her son. And she called his name Moses: and she said, Because I drew him out of the water.And she shall bring forth a son, and thou shalt call his name JESUS: for he shall save his people from their sins.And he said, Thy name shall be called no more Jacob, but Israel: for as a prince hast thou power with God and with men, and hast prevailed.THE THREAD
The LORD is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer; my God, my strength, in whom I will trust; my buckler, and the horn of my salvation, and my high tower.Palti shares the פלט (pālaṭ) root behind “my deliverer” in Psalm 18:2. The name’s language of escape becomes a first-person description of the one who delivers.
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