What Does Deuteronomy 4:46 Mean in the King James?
On this side Jordan, in the valley over against Beth-peor, in the land of Sihon king of the Amorites, who dwelt at Heshbon, whom Moses and the children of Israel smote, after they were come forth out of Egypt:
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 verse locates the people beyond Jordan by naming the exit that brought them out of Mitzrayim (מִצְרַיִם, Mitzrayim, Egypt), so departure remains part of the ground they stand on.
THE MEANING
Your present ground carries the trace of what you have come out of: the verse names the far side of Jordan together with the departure from Egypt. The route remains part of the coordinates of where you stand now. The verse also keeps the violence in view: Moses and Israel strike Sihon and the Amorites.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
Once you have left a constricting place, it no longer belongs in the story of where you are.
THE ROOT
בְּצֵאתָם
betsetam
GROWS FROM
יָצָא
yatsa
to go out, emerge, come forth
“came forth” in this verse is betsetam. The verse preserves the people’s movement in its place description: they are here after they came out. The root joins leaving with emerging, so the ground they occupy still carries the passage that brought them there.
ALSO GROWS
tset: going out, departure
צֵאת
The departure in this verse is not incidental; it remains part of how the people’s location is named.
motsa: exit, outlet, place of going forth
מוֹצָא
This branch gives the movement a shape: going out opens a way from one place into another.
מִצְרַיִם
Mitzrayim
GROWS FROM
צָרַר
to bind or press in; the related adjective צַר (tsar) means narrow or tight
Mitzrayim (מִצְרַיִם, Mitzrayim, Egypt) echoes the consonant shape צ־ר in צָרַר (tsarar, to bind or press in) and צַר (tsar, narrow or tight). Heard as a sound-shape connection, “came forth out of Egypt” carries a movement from enclosure into open ground.
ALSO GROWS
tsar: narrow, tight
צַר
Its sense of narrowness gives the departure from Egypt a shape of movement out of constriction.
metzar: a narrow place, strait
מֵצַר
This branch makes the image spatial: going out means leaving a constricted place.
tsarah: distress, trouble
צָרָה
It connects narrowness with the pressure of distress from which an exit opens.
THE PATTERN
Release is a movement out of confinement that carries a person onto new ground.
And it came to pass at the end of the four hundred and thirty years, even the selfsame day it came to pass, that all the hosts of the LORD went out from the land of Egypt.When Israel went out of Egypt, the house of Jacob from a people of strange language;But he, beckoning unto them with the hand to hold their peace, declared unto them how the Lord had brought him out of the prison. And he said, Go shew these things unto James, and to the brethren. And he departed, and went into another place.THE THREAD
And it came to pass at the end of the four hundred and thirty years, even the selfsame day it came to pass, that all the hosts of the LORD went out from the land of Egypt.Both passages use יָצָא (yatsa, to go out or come forth) for the departure from Egypt. Exodus names the going out itself; Deuteronomy places the people on the far side, where that departure still shapes the ground beneath them.
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