What Does Exodus 6:10 Mean?
And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,
Key words are shown with the Hebrew or Greek and what each word meant.
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And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,THE KEY
Before the word moves through Moses, it reaches the one whose name remembers being drawn out.
THE MEANING
You stand in the pause between being addressed and hearing what is said: the LORD speaks, and the saying is about to unfold. Moses’ name carries the image of being drawn out, so the hearer is already marked by deliverance before the next word arrives.
THE ROOT
וַיְדַבֵּר
vayedabber
GROWS FROM
דבר
d-b-r
Speak, address.
“spake” in this verse is vayedabber. This consonant family gives both the act of speaking and דָּבָר (dābār), a word, matter, or thing. The address is more than sound: a matter is arriving, though its content is still just beyond this verse.
ALSO GROWS
dābār: Word, matter, thing.
דָּבָר
The spoken word also belongs to the realm of things and matters; the LORD’s address carries substance that is about to be disclosed.
dibber: Spoke, addressed.
דִּבֶּר
This is the speaking action in the verse, directed to Moses before the saying unfolds.
מֹשֶׁה
Moshe
GROWS FROM
משה
m-sh-h
Draw out.
The narrative links Moses’ name to being drawn out of the water. The LORD addresses someone whose name already holds the memory of being brought out.
ALSO GROWS
māšâ: To draw out.
מָשָׁה
This verb is the source of the name’s meaning in the account of Moses’ naming.
məšîtihû: I drew him out.
מְשִׁיתִהוּ
This is the phrase that explains Moses’ name in Exodus 2:10, connecting the one addressed here with his earlier deliverance.
THE PATTERN
A divine address names the hearer before sending the word through them.
Go in, speak to Pharaoh king of Egypt, that he let the children of Israel go out of his land.But the LORD said to me, Do not say, I am a youth, for to all that I send you, you shall go, and whatever I command you, you shall speak.But the Lord said to him, Go on your way, for he is a chosen vessel to me, to carry my name before the nations and kings and the children of Israel.THE THREAD
And the child grew, and she brought him to Pharaoh's daughter, and he became her son. And she called his name Moses, the one drawn out, and she said, Because from the waters I drew him out.The narrative itself links Moses’ name to the words “I drew him out.” The direct address in Exodus 6:10 reaches someone whose name holds an earlier deliverance: the word comes to the one already drawn out.
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