What Does Ezekiel 30:20 Mean?
And it came to be in the eleventh year, in the first month, on the seventh day of the month, that the word of the LORD came to me, saying,
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Selah Decoded Version The Selah Decoded Version renders what the Hebrew and Greek words meant to the people who first heard them.
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King James Version
And it came to pass in the eleventh year, in the first month, in the seventh day of the month, that the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,THE KEY
The LORD’s word is davar: spoken word that can also name a matter or thing.
THE MEANING
You meet the verse at the instant an address arrives: the LORD’s word is spoken to a person in a specific moment, and its saying is about to unfold. You stand at the threshold of the message before its content is named.
THE ROOT
דְּבַר
devar
GROWS FROM
דבר
d-b-r
To speak; as a noun, a word or matter.
The verse names a דְּבַר (devar, word) of the LORD. In this Hebrew word family, speech and the matter spoken of are joined, so the address is more than a sound: it brings a matter into view.
ALSO GROWS
dibber: He spoke.
דִּבֵּר
This verb from the same root makes the spoken quality of the LORD’s word explicit.
devarim: Words; matters or things.
דְּבָרִים
This plural shows how the same root can name both what is said and the matters being spoken of.
THE PATTERN
The word arrives at a particular moment as an address to a person.
Then the word of the LORD came to me, saying,While Annas and Caiaphas were the chief priests, the word of God came upon John, the son of Zacharias, in the wilderness.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.Genesis uses the same Hebrew word, דָּבָר (davar, word or matter), in a similar arrival formula. There, too, the arriving word opens into a specific saying.
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