What Does Ezekiel 48:30 Mean?
And these are the exits of the city on the north side, four thousand five hundred measures.
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
And these are the goings out of the city on the north side, four thousand and five hundred measures.THE KEY
The city’s northern boundary becomes legible through its measured exits, the points where its inside opens outward.
THE MEANING
You meet the city at its northern edge, where its exits are measured at four thousand five hundred measures. Its boundary takes shape through the places where movement passes from within to beyond.
THE ROOT
תּוֹצְאֹת
tōṣĕʾōṯ
GROWS FROM
יצא
y-ts-ʾ
to go out, come forth
“exits” in this verse is tōṣĕʾōṯ. The Hebrew noun תּוֹצְאֹת (tōṣĕʾōṯ, “goings out”) grows from יצא (yāṣāʾ, “to go out, come forth”), so the city’s edge is named in the language of movement. The same root can name an outlet or source and the act of bringing something out, joining the threshold, the place of emergence, and the movement itself.
ALSO GROWS
yāṣāʾ: to go out, come forth
יָצָא
This verb is the seed of “goings out,” making the city’s boundary a place defined by passage.
môṣāʾ: outlet, source, place of departure
מוֹצָא
This noun shows how the same root can name both the movement outward and the point from which it emerges.
hôṣîʾ: to bring out, lead out
הוֹצִיא
This form makes the movement causative: something or someone is brought from within to beyond.
THE PATTERN
A place takes shape at its thresholds, where movement passes from within to beyond.
And it came to be at the end of four hundred and thirty years, and on this very bone of the day it came to be, that all the hosts of the LORD went out from the land of Egypt.The LORD watches over your going out and your coming in, from now and to the ages.I am the door. Through me, if anyone enters, he shall be delivered, and shall go in and out, and shall find pasture.THE THREAD
The LORD watches over your going out and your coming in, from now and to the ages.The phrase “thy going out” uses יָצָא (yāṣāʾ, “to go out”), the same root carried by the city’s תּוֹצְאֹת (tōṣĕʾōṯ, “goings out”). The city’s measured exits and the reader’s going out and coming in share one Hebrew seed: movement across a threshold.
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