What Does Exodus 33:6 Mean in the King James?
And the children of Israel stripped themselves of their ornaments by the mount Horeb.
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 word for stripping off the ornaments belongs to the same root family as rescue: removal can carry the shape of being drawn out.
THE MEANING
Here the reader meets a people taking off their ornaments by Horeb. The Hebrew verb also belongs to a root used for rescue and taking away, so the removal carries a second shade: being drawn out. The adornment is removed; the people remain.
THE ROOT
וַיִּתְנַצְּלוּ
vayyitnatstselu
GROWS FROM
נצל
natsal
To snatch away, remove, strip off, or rescue.
“stripped themselves” in this verse is vayyitnatstselu. This root holds removal and rescue together: one form describes taking ornaments off, while another describes being delivered. The added shade here is extraction, the adornment is taken away, and the people remain.
ALSO GROWS
hitzil: To deliver or rescue.
הִצִּיל
This branch shows the root’s sense of being drawn out of danger alongside its sense of taking something away.
vayenatzlu: They took valuables away; the same root appears in Exodus 12:36.
וַיְנַצְּלוּ
The root names both removing ornaments here and taking goods away there, keeping both actions within a single field of removal.
THE PATTERN
Scripture shows outward adornment being removed or laid down before the LORD.
And when the people heard these evil tidings, they mourned: and no man did put on him his ornaments.In that day the Lord will take away the bravery of their tinkling ornaments about their feet, and their cauls, and their round tires like the moon,The four and twenty elders fall down before him that sat on the throne, and worship him that liveth for ever and ever, and cast their crowns before the throne, saying,THE THREAD
And when the people heard these evil tidings, they mourned: and no man did put on him his ornaments.Both verses use עֲדִי (ʿădî, ornament): here no one puts it on, and in verse 6 they take it off. Together, the lines make the removal a visible expression of the people’s mourning.
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