What Does Amos 7:6 Mean in the King James?
The LORD repented for this: This also shall not be, saith the Lord 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 “repented” also forms “comfort,” joining a turn away from threatened harm to a movement that relieves distress.
THE MEANING
The LORD relents, and the threatened harm does not arrive. For the reader now, this line keeps a feared outcome from becoming a finished verdict: a course can still turn.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
It undoes the belief that a threatened outcome is already inevitable: here the LORD withdraws the harm, and “This also shall not be” names the change.
THE ROOT
וַיִּנָּחֶם
wayyinnāḥem
GROWS FROM
נחם
A response to distress: comfort or consolation in one stem, relenting in another.
“repented” in this verse is wayyinnāḥem. Here, וַיִּנָּחֶם (wayyinnāḥem, relented) names a changed course; the same root also forms נַחֲמוּ (naḥămū, comfort). The word-family gathers the withdrawal of harm and the relief of distress into one movement.
ALSO GROWS
wayyinnāḥem: To relent or be moved to withdraw an announced course.
וַיִּנָּחֶם
In this verse it names the turning that makes “This also shall not be” possible.
naḥămū: To comfort or console.
נַחֲמוּ
The same root’s comfort branch joins relenting with relief from distress.
THE PATTERN
When a plea meets divine responsiveness, an outcome that seems set can turn.
And the LORD repented of the evil which he thought to do unto his people.And God saw their works, that they turned from their evil way; and God repented of the evil, that he had said that he would do unto them; and he did it not.Then Jesus answered and said unto her, O woman, great is thy faith: be it unto thee even as thou wilt. And her daughter was made whole from that very hour.THE THREAD
And the LORD repented of the evil which he thought to do unto his people.Exodus uses the same root נחם for the LORD’s relenting. Side by side, the verses show the word holding an announced harm and its withdrawal in one movement.
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