What Does Exodus 7:7 Mean in the King James?
And Moses was fourscore years old, and Aaron fourscore and three years old, when they spake unto Pharaoh.
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 for being drawn out now speaks to call others out of constriction.
THE MEANING
Moses is eighty and Aaron eighty-three when they speak to Pharaoh. The verse holds long years beside a direct word to constricting power: age does not make a voice arrive too late. Its living truth reaches the reader who thinks the moment for their voice has passed.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
The lie it undoes is: “I have grown too old for my voice to matter.”
THE ROOT
מֹשֶׁה
Mosheh
GROWS FROM
מ־שׁ־ה
m-š-h
Draw out.
“Moses” in this verse is Mosheh. Exodus links Mosheh to being drawn out of the water. Here, that name stands beside a voice addressing Pharaoh: what is drawn out can become part of what opens a way out for others.
ALSO GROWS
māšāh: To draw out.
מָשָׁה
This is the verb behind the name’s explanation in Exodus 2:10.
məšîtihû: I drew him out.
מְשִׁיתִהוּ
This form appears in the naming story, binding Moses’ name to the act of being drawn out.
בְּדַבְּרָם
bə-dabbərām
GROWS FROM
ד־ב־ר
d-b-r
Speak; declare.
“spake” in this verse is bə-dabbərām. The root of speaking also gives davar, “word” or “matter.” Their speech to Pharaoh is presented as a concrete matter taking shape, not merely sound passing through the air.
ALSO GROWS
dāvar: Word, matter, or thing.
דָּבָר
The shared root joins spoken words with the matters they bring into view.
dibbēr: He spoke; he declared.
דִּבֵּר
This verb form shows the action at the center of the verse: speech directed toward Pharaoh.
THE PATTERN
A long life remains capable of bearing fruit and receiving a living word.
They shall still bring forth fruit in old age; they shall be fat and flourishing;And it shall come to pass in the last days, saith God, I will pour out of my Spirit upon all flesh: and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams:THE THREAD
And the child grew, and she brought him unto Pharaoh’s daughter, and he became her son. And she called his name Moses: and she said, Because I drew him out of the water.The verse ties מֹשֶׁה (Mosheh), “Moses,” to מָשָׁה (māšāh), “draw out.” Exodus 7:7 places that name beside speech to Pharaoh: the life once drawn out of water now carries a word that calls others out of constriction.
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