What Does Ezekiel 11:14 Mean?
And the word of the LORD came to me, saying,
Key words are shown with the Hebrew or Greek and what each word meant.
Selah Decoded Version The Selah Decoded Version renders what the Hebrew and Greek words meant to the people who first heard them.
King James wording
King James Version
Again the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,THE KEY
Here, “word” and “happening” are joined: the LORD’s speech reaches the hearer as an event in the present.
THE MEANING
The LORD’s word meets you as a living address, not a distant idea. Its arrival is an event happening to you now as you hear it.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
This undoes the belief that a word from God is only a report from someone else’s past: here, speech and present happening belong together.
THE ROOT
דְּבַר
dĕvar
GROWS FROM
דבר
To speak or declare; the noun can mean a word, matter, or affair.
English “word” can sound like speech alone, but דָּבָר (dāḇār) also names a matter or thing, holding utterance and what is at stake together. The LORD’s speech is not merely information; it enters the hearer’s situation as an address.
ALSO GROWS
dibbēr: Spoke or declared.
דִּבֵּר
The spoken branch makes clear that this word is an address, not just an idea.
dāḇār: An utterance, matter, or affair.
דָּבָר
This branch keeps the speech joined to the matter it addresses.
וַיְהִי
vayhî
GROWS FROM
היה
To be, happen, or become.
The Hebrew verb here is literally “and it happened” or “and it was,” rendered smoothly as “came.” Its root lets the word’s arrival register as an occurrence: the address takes place with the hearer.
ALSO GROWS
hāyâ: To be, happen, or become.
הָיָה
This is the verb’s root form and holds arrival together with occurrence.
ʾehyeh: A first-person form of “to be.”
אֶהְיֶה
The same root can speak of being as something present and unfolding.
THE PATTERN
The word of God reaches a hearer as a living address that acts in the present.
He sends his word and heals them, and slips them free from their pits.While Annas and Caiaphas were the chief priests, the word of God came upon John, the son of Zacharias, in the wilderness.For the word of God is living and working, and sharper than any two-edged sword, reaching through even to the dividing of living soul and breath, of joints and marrow, and it separates the inward movements and thoughts of the heart.THE THREAD
He sends his word and heals them, and slips them free from their pits.The same דָּבָר (dāḇār, word) is sent and joined to healing, so the word is more than a message held at a distance. It reaches into what is broken and acts there.
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