What Does 2 Kings 19:27 Mean in the King James?
But I know thy abode, and thy going out, and thy coming in, and thy rage against me.
The analysis reads the King James wording.
King James Version The King James Version, first published in 1611. Selah Verse shows the standard text.
THE KEY
God’s knowing covers not just where you go, but where you remain and the rage you carry.
THE MEANING
The verse names a knowing that reaches your settled place, every departure and return, and even your anger directed toward God. Nothing in your outward routine or inward resistance sits beyond that perception.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
I can keep my life or my anger outside God’s sight by hiding, moving, or resisting.
THE ROOT
יָדַעְתִּי
yada'ti
GROWS FROM
ידע
y-d-ʿ (yada): know, recognize, perceive.
The verse’s “I know” is more than a record of your movements: it names recognition that reaches your dwelling, comings and goings, and inner agitation. English can make knowing sound like information held at a distance; this root also carries the sense of perceiving what is actually there.
ALSO GROWS
daʿat: knowledge, perception
דַּעַת
This noun from the same root shows that the verse’s knowing is an active awareness, not mere possession of facts.
yodea: one who knows
יוֹדֵעַ
This form keeps the act of knowing present: the verse speaks of attention that reaches the reader’s life as it is lived.
שִׁבְתְּךָ
shivtekha
GROWS FROM
ישב
y-sh-v (yashav): sit, remain, dwell.
“Abode” carries the sense of sitting or dwelling: the place where you remain. The verse holds that settled posture beside going out and coming in, joining rest and movement within one field of knowing.
ALSO GROWS
yoshev: one who sits or dwells; an inhabitant
יֹשֵׁב
This branch makes the “abode” personal: it is where you stay, not merely a location.
moshav: a dwelling or settlement
מוֹשָׁב
This branch extends the root’s sense of remaining into the place where life settles.
הִתְרַגֶּזְךָ
hitraggez-kha
GROWS FROM
רגז
r-g-z (ragaz): tremble, quake, become agitated.
The word translated “rage” grows from a root that also describes trembling and agitation. The verse names anger as something that stirs within you, and says that even this inner upheaval is known.
ALSO GROWS
ragaz: to tremble, quake, or become agitated
רָגַז
This verb reveals the physical stirring held inside the verse’s word for rage.
rogez: agitation, turmoil
רֹגֶז
This related noun keeps the connection between rage and inner disturbance visible.
THE PATTERN
God’s knowing and care reach a person in both settled places and every movement.
Thou knowest my downsitting and mine uprising, thou understandest my thought afar off.The LORD shall preserve thy going out and thy coming in from this time forth, and even for evermore.The eyes of the LORD are in every place, beholding the evil and the good.THE THREAD
Thou knowest my downsitting and mine uprising, thou understandest my thought afar off.The Hebrew repeats ידע (yada, know), and “downsitting” comes from the same ישב (yashav, sit or dwell) root family as “abode” here. Psalm 139 then carries that knowing from your posture and movement to the thought within you.
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