What Does Psalm 105:37 Mean in the King James?
He brought them forth also with silver and gold: and there was not one feeble person among their tribes.
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 says not one is stumbling: this passage pictures a people coming out without anyone collapsing along the way.
THE MEANING
The verse holds freedom together with tangible provision: the people carry silver and gold, and no one among the tribes is left stumbling. Release reaches the road ahead and the body’s ability to keep moving together.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
Freedom means getting out while provision and bodily weakness are left to sort themselves out.
THE ROOT
כּוֹשֵׁל
kōshēl
GROWS FROM
כשל
k-sh-l
To stumble, totter, or fail in footing.
The word translated “feeble” carries the image of someone losing their footing. The verse’s claim is that no one among the tribes is stumbling as they come out.
ALSO GROWS
kāshal: To stumble or totter
כָּשַׁל
This verb makes the bodily image in “feeble” concrete: the issue is faltering footing.
mikhshol: A stumbling block
מִכְשׁוֹל
The same root names both the one who falters and an obstacle that causes a fall; here, no one among the tribes is in that stumbling state.
וַיּוֹצִיאֵם
vayyotsi’em
GROWS FROM
יצא
y-ts-ʾ
To go out, emerge, or come forth.
“brought them forth” in this verse is vayyotsi’em. The verb means “he caused them to go out,” presenting the exit as something made possible for them. Joined to the absence of stumbling, the departure includes the capacity to keep moving once outside.
ALSO GROWS
yāṣāʾ: To go out or come forth
יָצָא
This is the root verb beneath “brought them forth,” keeping the focus on movement out of constriction.
yetsi’ah: Going out or departure
יְצִיאָה
The departure is not just a change of place; in this verse it comes with provision and no one losing their footing.
THE PATTERN
Deliverance carries people through the exit with provision and strength for the way ahead.
And the LORD gave the people favour in the sight of the Egyptians, so that they lent unto them such things as they required. And they spoiled the Egyptians.Thy raiment waxed not old upon thee, neither did thy foot swell, these forty years.But they that wait upon the LORD shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint.THE THREAD
And many among them shall stumble, and fall, and be broken, and be snared, and be taken.“Stumble” here comes from the same root כשל as “feeble” in Psalm 105:37. The contrast sharpens the image: this verse shows a people coming out without stumbling, while Isaiah describes stumbling that leads into brokenness and capture.
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