What Does Ezekiel 29:1 Mean?
In the tenth year, in the tenth month, in the twelfth day of the month, the word of the LORD came to me, saying,
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In the tenth year, in the tenth month, in the twelfth day of the month, the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,THE KEY
The word arrives as living speech, turning an exact date into direct address.
THE MEANING
You meet an exact date and a personal address held together: the LORD’s word comes to a hearer and speaks. The verse presents revelation as something that meets a person within lived time, with both a message and an addressee.
THE ROOT
דְּבַר
dĕvar
GROWS FROM
דבר
To speak, declare, or communicate.
“Word” and “spoke” grow from the same three consonants, דבר (D-B-R): the message and the act of speaking belong to one family. The verse presents that word as arriving on a precisely dated day, making speech an encounter within time rather than an abstract idea.
ALSO GROWS
dābār: Word, matter, or thing.
דָּבָר
The message can also be a matter at hand: what reaches the hearer is something that enters their lived moment.
dibbēr: He spoke or communicated.
דִּבֵּר
This verbal branch shows the speaking within the word: the message is presented as address, not merely content.
THE PATTERN
The LORD’s word reaches a person as address within a particular moment, making revelation both timely and relational.
After these things the word of the LORD came to Abram in a vision, saying, Do not fear, Abram. I am your shield, and your very great wages.And the LORD came, and stood, and called as at other times, Samuel, Samuel. Then Samuel answered, Speak, for your servant hears and responds.And the word became flesh and pitched a tent among us, and we beheld his weight, the weight as of the only-born from the Father, full of favor and truth.THE THREAD
After these things the word of the LORD came to Abram in a vision, saying, Do not fear, Abram. I am your shield, and your very great wages.Both verses use דָּבָר (dābār), “word,” for the LORD’s speech reaching a person: here on an explicitly dated day, there in a vision. The shared root connects the message with the act of speaking, showing the word as direct address within someone’s lived moment.
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