What Does Exodus 32:11 Mean in the King James?
And Moses besought the LORD his God, and said, LORD, why doth thy wrath wax hot against thy people, which thou hast brought forth out of the land of Egypt with great power, and with a mighty hand?
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 appeal stands on a verb of exit: the LORD has caused this people to come out, so their failure does not erase the deliverance that defines the moment.
THE MEANING
The verse holds anger beside deliverance without softening either: the people facing anger are the people the LORD has already brought out by great power. That act remains present within the crisis, and the appeal draws on it as part of what defines this moment.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
It undoes the belief that present failure makes deliverance meaningless, leaving anger as the only truth about the relationship.
THE ROOT
הוֹצֵאתָ
hōṣēʾtā
GROWS FROM
יצא
יצא (yatsa) means to go out or come out; in this form, it means to cause someone to go out, to bring out.
“brought forth” in this verse is hōṣēʾtā. הוֹצֵאתָ (hōṣēʾtā, “you brought out”) makes the LORD the agent of the people’s exit. Beside מִצְרַיִם (Miṣrayim, “Egypt,” heard here as the two narrows), it places movement out of constriction inside Moses’s appeal.
ALSO GROWS
yāṣāʾ: Go out; come out.
יָצָא
The same root names the people’s movement from inside to outside, the movement the verse recalls.
hōṣîʾ: Bring out; lead out.
הוֹצִיא
This causative form shows the agency within “brought forth”: someone makes the exit possible.
môṣāʾ: An exit; an outlet or source.
מוֹצָא
This noun from the same root carries the image of a way out, extending the verse’s language of deliverance.
חֲזָקָה
ḥăzāqāh
GROWS FROM
חזק
חזק (ḥazaq) means to be strong, firm, or hold fast.
The root can describe strength and taking hold firmly. So the “mighty hand” is power pictured as a grasp firm enough to act and bring the people out.
ALSO GROWS
ḥāzāq: Strong; firm.
חָזָק
This adjective shares the root in the verse’s description of the hand that brought the people out.
ḥāzaq: Be strong; grow firm.
חָזַק
The verb shows strength as a condition that holds, rather than an abstract force.
heḥĕzîq: Hold fast; strengthen.
הֶחֱזִיק
This related form makes the root’s grasping sense visible in the image of a strong hand.
THE PATTERN
Deliverance moves people from constriction toward spaciousness, and its memory remains present in a crisis.
And Moses said unto the people, Remember this day, in which ye came out from Egypt, out of the house of bondage; for by strength of hand the LORD brought you out from this place: there shall no leavened bread be eaten.I called upon the LORD in distress: the LORD answered me, and set me in a large place.Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage.THE THREAD
And remember that thou wast a servant in the land of Egypt, and that the LORD thy God brought thee out thence through a mighty hand and by a stretched out arm: therefore the LORD thy God commanded thee to keep the sabbath day.Exodus 32:11 uses הוֹצֵאתָ (hōṣēʾtā, “you brought out”), while Deuteronomy 5:15 uses הוֹצִיא (hōṣîʾ, “he brought out”); both grow from יצא (yatsa, “go out”). The repeated root makes the LORD’s act of bringing out the ground on which the appeal rests.
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