What Does 2 Samuel 7:12 Mean?

(by implication) very widely used as a relative conjunction or adverb (as below); often largely modified by other particles annexed

“be fulfilled”

to fill or (intransitively) be full of, in a wide application (literally and figuratively)

“And when thy days”

a day (as the warm hours), whether literal (from sunrise to sunset, or from one sunset to the next), or figurative (a space of time defined by an asso

“and thou shalt sleep”

to lie down (for rest, sexual connection, decease or any other purpose)

properly, nearness (used only as a preposition or an adverb), near; hence, generally, with, by, at, among, etc

“with thy fathers”

father, in a literal and immediate, or figurative and remote application

“I will set up”

to rise (in various applications, literal, figurative, intensive and causative)

properly, self (but generally used to point out more definitely the object of a verb or preposition, even or namely)

“thy seed”

seed; figuratively, fruit, plant, sowing-time, posterity

“after”

properly, the hind part; generally used as an adverb or conjunction, after (in various senses)

who, which, what, that; also (as an adverb and a conjunction) when, where, how, because, in order that, etc

“thee which shall proceed”

to go (causatively, bring) out, in a great variety of applications, literally and figuratively, direct and proxim

“out of thy bowels”

used only in plural the intestines, or (collectively) the abdomen, figuratively, sympathy; by implication, a vest; by extension the stomach, the uteru

“and I will establish”

properly, to be erect (i.e., stand perpendicular); hence (causatively) to set up, in a great variety of applications, whether literal (establish, fix,

properly, self (but generally used to point out more definitely the object of a verb or preposition, even or namely)

“his kingdom”

dominion, i.e., (abstractly) the estate (rule) or (concretely) the country (realm)