What Does Ezekiel 32:1 Mean?
And it came to pass in the twelfth year, in the twelfth month, on the first day of the month, that the word of the LORD came to me, saying,
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And it came to pass in the twelfth year, in the twelfth month, in the first day of the month, that the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,THE KEY
The word arrives not as a floating idea but as something that comes into a particular moment and speaks.
THE MEANING
The dated moment has a clear edge: the word of the LORD comes to you there, as something present that speaks. The Hebrew word for “word” can also mean a matter or thing, so what reaches you is not only language but something made present.
THE ROOT
דְּבַר־יְהוָה
devar-YHWH
GROWS FROM
דבר
To speak; as a noun, a word, matter, or affair.
The word that comes is also a matter that enters the moment: Hebrew holds speech and what is spoken together. English can make “word” sound like mere language, while this root lets you hear something arriving with substance and speaking.
ALSO GROWS
dāḇār: Word, matter, or affair.
דָּבָר
This branch shows that what comes to you is both something spoken and a matter brought into presence.
dibbēr: To speak or say.
דִּבֵּר
The root moves from the arriving word to active speech: it comes to you saying something.
THE PATTERN
The word of the LORD becomes present as speech that reaches a particular person or place.
And the LORD came, and stood, and called as at other times, Samuel, Samuel. Then Samuel answered, Speak, for your servant hears and responds.By the word of the LORD the heavens are made, and all their host by the breath of his mouth.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
By the word of the LORD the heavens are made, and all their host by the breath of his mouth.“Word” is דָּבָר (dāḇār) in both verses, from the root דבר (d-b-r), “to speak; word or matter.” The word that comes to you in Ezekiel is carried by the same root as the word through which the heavens are made.
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