What Does Ezekiel 27:1 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
The word of the LORD came again unto me, saying,THE KEY
The word comes again because it is more than speech: its Hebrew root also names a matter with substance.
THE MEANING
The LORD’s word comes again; its arrival renews the hearing, and it has something to say. In this word, speech and matter share a root, so what reaches you is an address with substance, not empty sound.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
It undoes the belief that what has already been heard is exhausted: the word can come again with speech still within it.
THE ROOT
דְּבַר
devar
GROWS FROM
ד־ב־ר
To speak or utter; the same root also names a word, matter, or thing.
“the word of the LORD” in this verse is devar. The same consonants hold speech and matter together: the word can name both what is said and a thing or affair. Its arrival carries substance, not just sound or information.
ALSO GROWS
dābār: Word, speech, matter, or thing.
דָּבָר
This branch shows that the word arriving is also a matter with substance.
dibber: He spoke; to declare or speak.
דִּבֵּר
This verbal branch makes the word’s arrival an act of speaking, not merely a message waiting to be read.
THE PATTERN
Divine speech arrives as an active word, carrying effect into what it addresses.
And God said, "Let there be light," and there was light.He sends his word and heals them, and slips them free from their pits.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.Psalm 107:20 uses the same Hebrew word, דָּבָר (dābār), for “word.” There, the word is sent and its effects are named; here, it comes again with speech still within it.
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