What Does Exodus 9:16 Mean in the King James?
And in very deed for this cause have I raised thee up, for to shew in thee my power; and that my name may be declared throughout all the earth.
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
Pharaoh is still standing by the power he defies, and his resistance becomes the stage on which that power is made known.
THE MEANING
You are confronted with a ruler whose continued standing is not self-made: God keeps him in place as power becomes visible through the resistance itself. God’s name, God’s nature made known, is then declared throughout the earth.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
The lie this undoes is that standing in power proves you are self-made or beyond God’s reach.
THE ROOT
הֶעֱמַדְתִּיךָ
he'emadtikha
GROWS FROM
עמד
To stand or remain; in the causative form, to make stand or establish.
The phrase rendered “raised thee up” means “caused you to stand.” Pharaoh’s position is presented as something God holds in place so that God’s power can be seen through it.
ALSO GROWS
ʿāmad: To stand or remain.
עָמַד
The shared root makes Pharaoh’s continued standing central to the verse.
heʿĕmîd: To cause to stand, set up, or establish.
הֶעֱמִיד
This causative form brings out the sense of being made to stand.
maʿămād: A standing, position, or status.
מַעֲמָד
It echoes the position Pharaoh occupies while God’s power is disclosed.
לְסַפֵּר
lesapper
GROWS FROM
ספר
To count, recount, or relate.
The word translated “declared” carries the sense of recounting: God’s name is spread as a story of what has been done. The word for name, שֵׁם (shem), points to more than a label here; it is God’s nature made known through that telling.
ALSO GROWS
sāpar: To count or number.
סָפַר
The root holds counting together with telling, as if the story unfolds by recounting what happened.
sēfer: A book or scroll.
סֵפֶר
A written record preserves and carries a telling beyond the moment.
mispar: A number or count.
מִסְפָּר
This branch keeps the root’s counting sense visible beneath the act of recounting.
THE PATTERN
God’s rule can turn even human resistance into a disclosure of power that others come to know.
For the scripture saith unto Pharaoh, Even for this same purpose have I raised thee up, that I might shew my power in thee, and that my name might be declared throughout all the earth.This matter is by the decree of the watchers, and the demand by the word of the holy ones: to the intent that the living may know that the most High ruleth in the kingdom of men, and giveth it to whomsoever he will, and setteth up over it the basest of men.Surely the wrath of man shall praise thee: the remainder of wrath shalt thou restrain.THE THREAD
For he spake, and it was done; he commanded, and it stood fast.“Stood fast” comes from עמד (ʿāmad), the same root beneath “raised thee up” in this verse. Creation stands at God’s word; Pharaoh’s standing, too, becomes a place where the speaker’s power is seen.
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