King James Version
2 Samuel 6:1 in the King James Version says “Again, David gathered together all the chosen men of Israel, thirty thousand.” — study this verse from 2 Samuel chapter 6 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“Again, David gathered together all the chosen men of Israel, thirty thousand.”
2 Samuel 6:1 · KJV
Again, David gathered together all the chosen men of Israel, thirty thousand.
And David arose, and went with all the people that were with him from Baale of Judah, to bring up from thence the ark of God, whose name is called by the name of the LORD of hosts that dwelleth between the cherubims. Baale: or, Baalah, that is, Kirjathjearim whose name: or, at which the name, even the name of the LORD of hosts, was called upon
And they set the ark of God upon a new cart, and brought it out of the house of Abinadab that was in Gibeah: and Uzzah and Ahio, the sons of Abinadab, drave the new cart. set: Heb. made to ride Gibeah: or, the hill
KJV Study — Public Domain
properly, iteration or continuance; used only adverbially (with or without preposition), again, repeatedly, still, more
properly, self (but generally used to point out more definitely the object of a verb or preposition, even or namely)
properly, the whole; hence, all, any or every (in the singular only, but often in a plural sense)
“men of Israel”
H3478he will rule as god; jisral, a symbolical name of jacob; also (typically) of his posterity
“thousand”
H505hence (the ox's head being the first letter of the alphabet, and this eventually used as a numeral) a thousand
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