What Does Deuteronomy 33:22 Mean in the King James?
And of Dan he said, Dan is a lion’s whelp: he shall leap from Bashan.
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
Dan’s name carries the sense of “judge,” and the young lion’s leap makes that nature feel like a force in motion.
THE MEANING
Here, judgment is not just a title: Dan is pictured as a young lion that leaps. The movement from Bashan gives that force a place of emergence and a visible motion.
THE ROOT
דָּן
Dan
GROWS FROM
דִּין
din
To judge, decide, or administer a case.
The name Dan is tied to the root for judging, and the verse places that name beside a young lion already in motion. Judgment appears not only as a title but as a force that rises and acts.
ALSO GROWS
dananni: “He has judged me.”
דָּנַנִּי
Rachel uses this form when she names Dan, linking the name to the act of judgment (Genesis 30:6).
yadin: “He shall judge.”
יָדִין
Genesis 49:16 places this verb beside Dan, turning the name’s judgment sense into an action.
THE PATTERN
A name can compress a nature that scripture then makes visible through meaning or action.
And Rachel said, God hath judged me, and hath also heard my voice, and hath given me a son: therefore called she his name Dan.Dan shall judge his people, as one of the tribes of Israel.And he brought him to Jesus. And when Jesus beheld him, he said, Thou art Simon the son of Jona: thou shalt be called Cephas, which is by interpretation, A stone.THE THREAD
Dan shall judge his people, as one of the tribes of Israel.Genesis sets דָּן (Dan, “judge”) beside יָדִין (yadin, “he shall judge”), exposing the root carried in the name. That makes the lion’s leap here read as the force of Dan’s judging nature coming into motion.
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