What Does Exodus 6:27 Mean in the King James?
These are they which spake to Pharaoh king of Egypt, to bring out the children of Israel from Egypt: these are that Moses and Aaron.
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 one named “drawn out” becomes the voice of bringing others out of constriction.
THE MEANING
This verse meets you while the constricting power is still present: emergence is named in its presence, before the way out has fully appeared. Moses (מֹשֶׁה, Moshe, “drawn out,” from מָשָׁה, mashah, “to draw out”) carries that name-nature into the work of bringing others out of מִצְרַיִם (Mitzrayim, “Egypt,” linked here with צַר, tsar, “narrow”).
WHAT THIS UNDOES
Freedom does not have to wait until the constricting power is gone; here, the voices of release speak directly to Pharaoh.
THE ROOT
לְהוֹצִיא
lehotsi
GROWS FROM
י־צ־א
y-ts-ʾ
Go out; emerge.
“bring out” in this verse is lehotsi. This is the causative form of יָצָא (yatsa): to go out or emerge. The movement answers מִצְרַיִם (Mitzrayim, “Egypt”), linked here to צַר (tsar, “narrow”): the place of constriction becomes the place from which you emerge, and Moses (מֹשֶׁה, Moshe, “drawn out”) bears that pattern in his name.
ALSO GROWS
yetsi’ah: An exit or departure.
יְצִיאָה
It makes visible the movement held inside “bring out”: a passage from within to beyond.
motsa: A way out or point of emergence.
מוֹצָא
It shows that going out opens an outlet from what has held you in.
הַמְדַבְּרִים
hammedabberim
GROWS FROM
ד־ב־ר
d-b-r
Speak; word or matter.
“spake” in this verse is hammedabberim. This root connects speaking with דָּבָר (davar), “word” or “matter.” The speech directed to Pharaoh belongs to the release it names; it is part of the movement, not a comment made from outside it.
ALSO GROWS
davar: A word, statement, or matter.
דָּבָר
Speech and the matter being spoken share the same root, joining the voice to what is at stake.
dibber: To speak or utter.
דִּבֵּר
It is the verbal form of the root heard in “spake,” making the act of speaking itself visible.
THE PATTERN
Release becomes speakable while the constricting power is still being addressed, and the word is bound to the opening it names.
Come now therefore, and I will send thee unto Pharaoh, that thou mayest bring forth my people the children of Israel out of Egypt.He sent his word, and healed them, and delivered them from their destructions.The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised,THE THREAD
He sent his word, and healed them, and delivered them from their destructions.Psalm’s דְּבָרוֹ (devaro, “his word”) shares the ד־ב־ר root with הַמְדַבְּרִים (hammedabberim, “those speaking”) in Exodus. Here that word is joined to healing and deliverance, so the speech before Pharaoh is part of the release being enacted.
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