What Does Exodus 17:15 Mean in the King James?
And Moses built an altar, and called the name of it Jehovah-nissi:
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 altar’s name turns victory into a nature: the LORD is the banner around which the people gather.
THE MEANING
Jehovah-nissi names the LORD as the reader’s banner, the raised sign around which allegiance gathers. The altar marks the truth that victory in conflict is centered in God’s presence, not in the strength of the human hand alone.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
It undoes the belief that the hand that fights is the source of victory; the name centers victory in the LORD.
THE ROOT
נִסִּי
nissî
GROWS FROM
נסס
n-s-s
To raise up or make conspicuous as a signal.
The ending -î means “my,” so nissî names the LORD as the reader’s own banner. The root carries the image of a raised signal made visible, making the LORD the point around which allegiance gathers.
ALSO GROWS
nēs: A raised signal or standard.
נֵס
This is the noun within nissî: the LORD is named as the visible rallying point.
nāsas: To lift up or stand out as a visible signal.
נָסַס
The root’s action helps explain why a banner gathers people: it is raised where it can be seen.
מִזְבֵּחַ
mizbēaḥ
GROWS FROM
זבח
z-b-ḥ
To slaughter or sacrifice.
The Hebrew name for altar carries the action of sacrifice within it. Here the altar makes the name Jehovah-nissi a marker of the victory and the offering that follows it.
ALSO GROWS
zāvaḥ: To slaughter an animal or make a sacrifice.
זָבַח
The verb names the action associated with the altar Moses builds.
zevaḥ: A sacrificial offering or meal.
זֶבַח
This noun shows the altar as a place where sacrifice is presented.
THE PATTERN
A raised sign makes the source of refuge visible and gathers people around it.
Thou hast given a banner to them that fear thee, that it may be displayed because of the truth. Selah.And in that day there shall be a root of Jesse, which shall stand for an ensign of the people; to it shall the Gentiles seek: and his rest shall be glorious.And I, if I be lifted up from the earth, will draw all men unto me.THE THREAD
And in that day there shall be a root of Jesse, which shall stand for an ensign of the people; to it shall the Gentiles seek: and his rest shall be glorious.“Ensign” here is the same Hebrew word, נֵס (nēs), “banner,” carried in Jehovah-nissi. The name opens outward: the LORD as banner becomes a visible point of gathering for peoples beyond the immediate conflict.
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