What Does Exodus 7:5 Mean in the King James?
And the Egyptians shall know that I am the LORD, when I stretch forth mine hand upon Egypt, and bring out the children of Israel from among them.
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
Egypt encounters the LORD through the hand upon it, while Israel emerges from within it: the same act makes divine power known and opens a way out.
THE MEANING
The verse holds two audiences within one movement: Egypt meets the LORD through the hand stretched over it, while Israel is brought out from among the Egyptians. The Hebrew word for knowing points to recognition through encounter; here, that encounter is an action that changes who is held and who can leave. The reader meets the LORD as one whose nature becomes visible in both judgment and release.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
Recognition of the LORD is not limited to the people being delivered; even those experiencing the force of the deliverance come to know who is acting.
THE ROOT
וְיָדְעוּ
veyad'u
GROWS FROM
ידע
Know, recognize, perceive through encounter.
The Egyptians do not merely receive information about the LORD; they come to know through what happens before them. The verse joins recognition to an act whose consequences can be experienced.
ALSO GROWS
yada: Know, recognize, perceive
יָדַע
This is the verb used here: the Egyptians’ knowing arises through encounter with the LORD’s action.
da'at: Knowledge, understanding
דַּעַת
This noun from the same root points to knowledge as something formed through recognition, not merely a name heard.
וְהוֹצֵאתִי
vehōṣē’tî
GROWS FROM
יצא
Go out, emerge.
The form translated “bring out” grows from the root for going out: Israel’s deliverance is an emergence from within the place holding them. That visible emergence is part of what makes the LORD known.
ALSO GROWS
yatsa: Go out, emerge
יָצָא
The root’s basic movement is outward, making the release in this verse a passage from being among the Egyptians to going out.
hotsi: Bring out, lead out
הוֹצִיא
This causative form expresses the LORD bringing Israel out, the action through which recognition takes shape.
THE PATTERN
Recognition of the LORD takes shape through actions whose visible consequences make divine agency known.
And the Egyptians shall know that I am the LORD, when I have gotten me honour upon Pharaoh, upon his chariots, and upon his horsemen.The LORD is known by the judgment which he executeth: the wicked is snared in the work of his own hands. Higgaion. Selah.But if I do, though ye believe not me, believe the works: that ye may know, and believe, that the Father is in me, and I in him.THE THREAD
And I will take you to me for a people, and I will be to you a God: and ye shall know that I am the LORD your God, which bringeth you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians.The same root, ידע (yada), links Israel’s knowing in Exodus 6:7 with Egypt’s knowing here. The act that brings Israel out makes the LORD known to the people released and to the people from whose midst they emerge.
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