What Does Exodus 4:30 Mean in the King James?
And Aaron spake all the words which the LORD had spoken unto Moses, and did the signs in the sight of the people.
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 Hebrew word דָּבָר (dābār, “word” or “matter”) joins speech to what is being conveyed, so Aaron’s words and signs make the same message audible and visible.
THE MEANING
The message reaches you through a voice other than its first receiver and appears in signs before the people. The verse holds hearing and seeing together: what is spoken becomes perceptible and shared.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
It dissolves the belief that a true message is only talk: the words and signs stand together before the people.
THE ROOT
דִּבֵּר
dibbēr
GROWS FROM
דבר
Speak or declare; the related noun means word, matter, or thing.
“spake / words” in this verse is dibbēr. Hebrew uses the same root for speaking and for a word or matter, joining utterance to what is being conveyed. Aaron’s voice carries the words, and the signs make the message visible; English can make speech and act feel like separate categories.
ALSO GROWS
dibbēr: spoke, declared
דִּבֵּר
This verb names Aaron’s action: he gives voice to the words Moses received.
dābār: word, matter, thing
דָּבָר
The noun’s range lets the spoken message be understood as a matter made present, not merely a sound.
אוֹת
’ōt
GROWS FROM
אות
Sign, mark, or token.
The signs are not detached spectacle: the Hebrew word אות (’ōt, “sign” or “token”) names a marker that makes the message perceptible. The verse places that marker before the people’s eyes, alongside what they hear.
ALSO GROWS
’ōt: sign, token, mark
אוֹת
This is the singular form behind “signs”; each act marks the message visibly.
’ōt berit: sign of a covenant
אוֹת בְּרִית
This phrase uses the same word for a visible token of a covenant, showing how a sign can point beyond itself to a word given.
מֹשֶׁה
Mōsheh
GROWS FROM
משה
Draw out, pull from water.
The name Moses carries “drawn out,” the meaning attached to his name in Exodus 2:10. That nature sits inside a verse where words and signs begin a people’s movement out of constriction.
ALSO GROWS
māšāh: to draw out
מָשָׁה
This verb supplies the name’s meaning in the account of Moses being drawn from the water.
Mōsheh: Moses; drawn out
מֹשֶׁה
The name keeps the movement of being drawn out beside the message that reaches the people.
THE PATTERN
A spoken message becomes a public witness when a voice carries it and signs make it visible.
And he shall be thy spokesman unto the people: and he shall be, even he shall be to thee instead of a mouth, and thou shalt be to him instead of God.Long time therefore abode they speaking boldly in the Lord, which gave testimony unto the word of his grace, and granted signs and wonders to be done by their hands.And they went forth, and preached every where, the Lord working with them, and confirming the word with signs following. Amen.THE THREAD
And thou shalt speak unto him, and put words in his mouth: and I will be with thy mouth, and with his mouth, and will teach you what ye shall do.The same Hebrew root joins speaking with the words placed in Aaron’s mouth. Exodus 4:15 gives the handoff; this verse shows Aaron speaking those words and making the message visible through signs.
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