What Does Exodus 2:10 Mean in the King James?
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.
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
Moses’s name keeps his rescue inside it: the one drawn out becomes a passage through which a people come out.
THE MEANING
The child is named for the act that brings him out: “I drew him out.” For you now, what nearly engulfs you need not become the name you carry; the drawing out can become part of your story. Rescue can become a passage through which another life is brought clear.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
The lie that what nearly swallowed you gets to name you dissolves here: the name remembers the drawing out.
THE ROOT
מְשִׁיתִהוּ
mĕšîtihû
GROWS FROM
משׁה
m-sh-h
To draw out.
The Hebrew verb מְשִׁיתִהוּ (mĕšîtihû, “I drew him out”) and the name מֹשֶׁה (Mōšeh, “Moses”) share the root משׁה (m-sh-h). The name carries the motion of the rescue; Psalm 18:16 uses the same root when its speaker says, “he drew me out of many waters.”
ALSO GROWS
Mōšeh: Moses; the name linked here to “I drew him out.”
מֹשֶׁה
His name preserves the rescue as part of his nature.
wayyimšēnî: “And he drew me out,” in Psalm 18:16.
וַיִּמְשֵׁנִי
The same root names rescue from many waters, opening this single deliverance into a recurring image.
THE PATTERN
Deliverance turns waters that threaten to engulf life into a threshold from which life emerges.
He sent from above, he took me, he drew me out of many waters.Thus the LORD saved Israel that day out of the hand of the Egyptians; and Israel saw the Egyptians dead upon the sea shore.Which sometime were disobedient, when once the longsuffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was a preparing, wherein few, that is, eight souls were saved by water.THE THREAD
He sent from above, he took me, he drew me out of many waters.Exodus 2:10 and Psalm 18:16 share the Hebrew root משׁה (m-sh-h), “to draw out.” Here the name Moses holds the motion of rescue; the psalm gives that same motion a first-person voice: “he drew me out.”
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