What Does Exodus 14:1 Mean in the King James?

And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,

Exodus 14:1 · 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

The one drawn out of the water receives the word that will lead a whole people through it.

THE MEANING

The LORD’s word reaches you at the edge of a passage before the way through is visible. Moses’ name carries the memory of being drawn out; now the one drawn from water receives direction as others face the water.

THE ROOT

מֹשֶׁה

Mosheh

GROWS FROM

משׁה

m-sh-h

To draw out.

Moses’ name preserves the action of being drawn out of water; here, the one drawn out receives the word just before Israel’s waters become a passage. The same verb appears in a song of deliverance as “he drew me out of many waters,” turning the name into a memory of rescue.

ALSO GROWS

māšâ: To draw out.

מָשָׁה

This is the verb behind Moses’ name: the person drawn out of water now receives direction at the threshold of another crossing.

yimshēnî: He drew me out.

יִמְשֵׁנִי

In Psalm 18:16, the same root describes being drawn out of many waters, extending the name’s rescue pattern beyond Moses.

THE PATTERN

What is drawn out of danger can become the beginning of a passage through danger for many.

Come now therefore, and I will send thee unto Pharaoh, that thou mayest bring forth my people the children of Israel out of Egypt.

Exodus 3:10 · KJVThe one drawn out receives a sending that will bring a people out of their narrow place.

He sent from above, he took me, he drew me out of many waters.

Psalm 18:16 · KJVThe same drawing-out root describes rescue from waters that threaten to overwhelm.

By faith they passed through the Red sea as by dry land: which the Egyptians assaying to do were drowned.

Hebrews 11:29 · KJVThe waters that threaten one group become a passage for another.

THE THREAD

And the child grew, and she brought him unto Pharaoh’s daughter, and he became her son. And she called his name Moses: and she said, Because I drew him out of the water.

Exodus 2:10 · KJV

Moses’ name is tied to the verb “to draw out,” preserving the memory of rescue from water. Here, that same drawn-out man receives the word at the threshold of a crossing that will draw a people through water.

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