What Does 2 Samuel 6:7 Mean in the King James?
And the anger of the LORD was kindled against Uzzah; and God smote him there for his error; and there he died by the ark of God.
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
The Hebrew root behind “died” also names death itself, so the verse’s ending makes its violence bodily and final.
THE MEANING
The LORD’s anger turns deadly: God strikes Uzzah for his error, and he dies beside the ark. The verse holds that violence in full view; it does not name the error more precisely or soften the consequence.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
The belief that what is sacred can be approached without danger simply because it is near.
THE ROOT
וַיָּמָת
wayyāmōt
GROWS FROM
מות
To die; to cease living.
“died” in this verse is wayyāmōt. The verb comes from מות, the same seed that gives the noun מָוֶת, “death.” Hebrew keeps dying and death in one word family: Uzzah’s end is stated as death itself, not as an abstract misfortune.
ALSO GROWS
mût: To die.
מוּת
The root form keeps the action of dying visible beneath the verse’s final verb.
māvet: Death.
מָוֶת
The same consonants name the state that Uzzah enters when he dies.
tāmût: You will die.
תָּמוּת
This form shows the same root in a direct statement of death, as in Genesis 2:17.
THE PATTERN
Scripture presents divine holiness as a boundary whose violation can bring consuming danger.
And when Aaron and his sons have made an end of covering the sanctuary, and all the vessels of the sanctuary, as the camp is to set forward; after that, the sons of Kohath shall come to bear it: but they shall not touch any holy thing, lest they die. These things are the burden of the sons of Kohath in the tabernacle of the congregation.And the anger of the LORD was kindled against Uzza, and he smote him, because he put his hand to the ark: and there he died before God.For our God is a consuming fire.THE THREAD
But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.The same Hebrew root מות names Uzzah’s death and the warning “thou shalt surely die.” In both verses, the root holds the boundary and its bodily consequence in one stark vocabulary.
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