What Does Judges 6:38 Mean?
And it was so, for he rose early on the morrow, and pressed the fleece together, and wrung the dew out of the fleece, a bowl full of waters.
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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.
King James wording
King James Version
And it was so: for he rose up early on the morrow, and thrust the fleece together, and wringed the dew out of the fleece, a bowl full of water.THE KEY
The fleece already holds the sign; squeezing makes what it has received visible as a bowlful.
THE MEANING
You see the dew gathered in the fleece become measurable water when the wool is squeezed. The sign comes into view through what has already collected there.
THE ROOT
גִּזָּה
gizzāh
GROWS FROM
גזז
g-z-z
to shear, cut off wool
The Hebrew word for fleece belongs to the verb for shearing: the sign’s surface is wool cut away from the animal. When that cut covering is squeezed, the dew it has received becomes visible as a bowlful.
ALSO GROWS
gāzaz: to shear or cut off wool
גָּזַז
It names the action that produces the fleece serving as the sign’s surface.
gēz: fleece or wool taken by shearing
גֵּז
It is the same cut wool described in Job 31:20 as a covering that warms someone.
THE PATTERN
Life-giving provision arrives quietly, then becomes visible in what receives it.
And when the dew that lay had risen, look, upon the face of the wilderness there lay a fine flaked thing, as fine as the frost upon the ground.I will be like dew to Israel. He will bloom like the lily, and strike down his roots as Lebanon.So that you may become children of your Father in the heavens, for he makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the aligned and on the crooked.THE THREAD
If his loins have not blessed me, and if he has not been warmed by the fleece of my lambs;The Hebrew word גֵּז (gēz, fleece) shares the root גזז (gāzaz, to shear) with the fleece in this verse. In Job, the sheared wool warms someone; here, the same kind of cut covering receives dew and releases it as water.
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