What Does Psalm 24:8 Mean in the King James?
Who is this King of glory? The LORD strong and mighty, the LORD mighty in battle.
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 King’s glory is weight made active: it enters the battle rather than remaining a distant radiance.
THE MEANING
This verse makes the LORD’s weight visible as strength that meets conflict. The King’s presence is active and formidable where resistance gathers. Glory has consequence here; it is not merely a title.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
It undoes the belief that divine glory is only a distant radiance or an honorific title; here, the King’s weight is known through strength in battle.
THE ROOT
כָּבוֹד
kavod
GROWS FROM
כבד
To be heavy or weighty; to carry weight.
Kavod carries the sense of weight: the King’s presence has substance and consequence. The verse joins that weight to might in battle, showing glory as an active force that meets resistance.
ALSO GROWS
kaved: Heavy, weighty.
כָּבֵד
This adjective makes the sense of kavod tangible: the King’s glory carries weight.
kibbed: To honor or treat as weighty.
כִּבֵּד
Honor grows from recognizing someone’s weight; the King’s glory names a presence that cannot be treated as light or inconsequential.
גִּבּוֹר
gibbor
GROWS FROM
גבר
To be strong, prevail, or grow powerful.
Gibbor names more than strength held in reserve: its root carries the sense of prevailing. Repeated in “the LORD mighty in battle,” it presents the King’s might as strength meeting opposition and overcoming it.
ALSO GROWS
gavar: To prevail or grow strong.
גָּבַר
This verb shows the movement within the root: might is strength that asserts itself against resistance.
gevurah: Might, strength, or valor.
גְּבוּרָה
This branch names the force of the gibbor, clarifying that the verse presents the King as powerfully able to prevail.
THE PATTERN
Divine weight becomes visible through strength that enters conflict and prevails.
The LORD is a man of war: the LORD is his name.The LORD shall go forth as a mighty man, he shall stir up jealousy like a man of war: he shall cry, yea, roar; he shall prevail against his enemies.And I saw heaven opened, and behold a white horse; and he that sat upon him was called Faithful and True, and in righteousness he doth judge and make war.THE THREAD
The voice of the LORD is upon the waters: the God of glory thundereth: the LORD is upon many waters.“God of glory” uses the same Hebrew word, kavod, found in “King of glory.” Here that weight is heard as thunder, opening the word’s sense beyond a title into a presence that makes itself felt.
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