What Does Exodus 12:51 Mean in the King James?
And it came to pass the selfsame day, that the LORD did bring the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt by their armies.
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 LORD turns the place of constriction into a people’s collective going out, on this very day.
THE MEANING
The LORD brings you out of what narrows you, and the going out takes shape among a people, not only in private. “This selfsame day” gives the movement a precise moment: release is no longer only promised; it is happening.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
The lie that confinement has the final word, or that release must happen alone. Here the LORD brings a whole people out together.
THE ROOT
הוֹצִיא
hōṣîʾ
GROWS FROM
יָצָא
To go out, emerge, or come forth.
“did bring ... out” in this verse is hōṣîʾ. The Hebrew verb is the causative form of yatsa, “to go out”: the LORD causes their going out. The English can sound like a single extraction, while the root reveals an actual emergence from the constricted place.
ALSO GROWS
yetzi’ah: Going out, departure, exodus.
יְצִיאָה
The departure is itself a going out: the people’s release is a movement, not merely a change of status.
motsa: An outlet, point of emergence, or source.
מוֹצָא
The root holds the sense of a way out opening from within what had confined them.
מִצְרַיִם
Mitsrayim
GROWS FROM
צָרַר
To bind, press in, or constrict.
“Egypt” in this verse is Mitsrayim. Mitsrayim carries the image of a narrowed place, with its -ayim ending giving the shape of two narrows. The verse’s “out of” marks the turn from that constriction into open movement.
ALSO GROWS
metzar: A narrow place or strait.
מֵצַר
It makes the name’s narrowness visible: the people are brought out from a place that presses in.
tsarah: Distress, trouble, or constriction.
צָרָה
The same sound-shape links a narrow place with the distress it holds; the verse names the movement out of both.
עֶצֶם
etsem
GROWS FROM
עָצַם
Bone, substance, or what is substantial and essential.
“Selfsame” translates be’etzem, literally “at the substance” or “bone” of this day. The departure is anchored in the very day itself: the movement out of constriction has become present and definite.
ALSO GROWS
etsem: Bone, substance, or the very thing itself.
עֶצֶם
The phrase points to the substance of this day, giving the departure its exactness.
atsmo: Himself or itself.
עַצְמוֹ
This form carries the sense of the thing itself, echoing the verse’s emphasis on this very day.
THE PATTERN
The LORD’s deliverance moves people from constriction into spaciousness and freedom.
And I am come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them up out of that land unto a good land and a large, unto a land flowing with milk and honey; unto the place of the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites.He brought me forth also into a large place; he delivered me, because he delighted in me.Because the creature itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God.THE THREAD
He brought me forth also into a large place; he delivered me, because he delighted in me.“Brought me forth” is another form of yatsa, the same going-out root as “did bring ... out” in Exodus. Psalm 18:19 makes the destination explicit: the way out of constriction opens into a large place.
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