What Does Psalm 105:11 Mean in the King James?
Saying, Unto thee will I give the land of Canaan, the lot of your inheritance:
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
“Lot” is the line-drawn portion: the gift is a place with a measure.
THE MEANING
The verse speaks to you as someone whose belonging has shape: a place is given, and its portion is marked out. Inheritance here is provision made tangible in ground, with a boundary that lets the gift be named.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
It loosens the belief that belonging becomes real only through grasping: here the place arrives as a gift with its measure already named.
THE ROOT
חֶבֶל
chevel
GROWS FROM
חבל
ḥ-b-l
A cord or measuring line, extending to the bounded territory or portion it marks.
English “lot” can suggest chance, while חֶבֶל (chevel, a cord or measured portion) carries the image of a line marking out a share. The inheritance is a shaped place: the gift has both substance and measure.
ALSO GROWS
chevel: A cord or rope.
חֶבֶל
The concrete cord reveals the line beneath the allotted portion in this verse.
chavalim: Cords or measuring lines; by extension, boundaries marking a share.
חֲבָלִים
This plural form makes the image visible: an inheritance can be pictured as ground held within its lines.
אֶתֶּן
’etten
GROWS FROM
נתן
n-t-n
To give, set, or place.
The verb carries the sense of giving and setting in place. Here the gift takes form as a named tract and a bounded share, so “give” reaches all the way to establishing a place.
ALSO GROWS
mattan: A gift or present.
מַתָּן
This noun makes the giving explicit as a gift that can be received.
natun: Given, set, or placed.
נָתוּן
This form brings out the placing within the verb: what is given is set before its recipient.
THE PATTERN
Inheritance is presented as a portion granted and given by God.
And he said unto him, I am the LORD that brought thee out of Ur of the Chaldees, to give thee this land to inherit it.The lines are fallen unto me in pleasant places; yea, I have a goodly heritage.And now, brethren, I commend you to God, and to the word of his grace, which is able to build you up, and to give you an inheritance among all them which are sanctified.THE THREAD
The lines are fallen unto me in pleasant places; yea, I have a goodly heritage.The “lines” are חֲבָלִים (chavalim, measuring cords), from the same root חבל (ḥ-b-l, cord or measuring line) as “lot” here. Psalm 16 opens the image in this verse: inheritance is a measured portion, and its lines can fall in pleasant places.
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