What Does Exodus 13:4 Mean in the King James?

This day came ye out in the month Abib.

Exodus 13:4 · KJV

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

Your going out is dated to ⁨אָבִיב⁩ (aviv, fresh ears of grain) and to ⁨חֹדֶשׁ⁩ (chodesh, month), a word rooted in renewal.

THE MEANING

Your going out meets the first fresh growth of the year. Leaving and renewal share the same moment.

THE ROOT

חֹדֶשׁ

chodesh

GROWS FROM

חדש

Be new; renew.

The Hebrew word for month also names the new moon and shares its root with words for newness and renewal. The going out falls in ⁨אָבִיב⁩ (aviv, fresh ears of grain), so the date itself carries the image of new growth.

ALSO GROWS

chadash: New.

חָדָשׁ

This adjective shares the root of chodesh, placing newness inside the word for the month.

chiddesh: Renew; restore.

חִדֵּשׁ

This verb shows the same root in action: what is new can also be renewed.

יֹצְאִים

yotze'im

GROWS FROM

יצא

Go out; emerge; depart.

“came ye out” in this verse is yotze'im. The going out here shares its root with the LORD’s bringing the people out in the preceding verse. The root holds both the release that carries someone out and the emergence of those who go.

ALSO GROWS

vayyotsi'akhem: He brought you out.

וַיּוֹצִאֵכֶם

This form appears in Exodus 13:3, linking the LORD’s bringing out with the people’s going out in this verse.

motsa: A going forth; an outlet or source.

מוֹצָא

The same root can name where something issues forth, giving the act of going out a sense of emergence into what follows.

THE PATTERN

Release opens onto renewal that appears as fresh growth, a new song, and new creation.

They are new every morning: great is thy faithfulness.

Lamentations 3:23 · KJVRenewal appears again each morning, making newness a recurring part of life.

And he hath put a new song in my mouth, even praise unto our God: many shall see it, and fear, and shall trust in the LORD.

Psalm 40:3 · KJVNewness takes the form of a song that others can hear and see.

Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.

2 Corinthians 5:17 · KJVThe passing away of the old is joined to the appearance of new creation.

THE THREAD

This month shall be unto you the beginning of months: it shall be the first month of the year to you.

Exodus 12:2 · KJV

Both verses use ⁨חֹדֶשׁ⁩ (chodesh, month), rooted in ⁨חדש⁩ (chadash, be new or renew). Exodus 12:2 names the month as a beginning; Exodus 13:4 identifies it as Abib and dates the going out there.

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