What Does Exodus 9:30 Mean in the King James?
But as for thee and thy servants, I know that ye will not yet fear the LORD God.
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 verse separates seeing what God does from standing in awe of who God is.
THE MEANING
You can recognize what is happening and still not yet stand in awe of the LORD God. Awareness of power and reverence remain distinct responses.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
It undoes the belief that unmistakable evidence automatically becomes reverence.
THE ROOT
תִּירְאוּ
tira’u
GROWS FROM
ירא
To fear; when directed toward God, to stand in awe.
The root ירא (y-r-ʾ, to fear or stand in awe) can name both fear and reverent awe. Here, directed toward the LORD God, it carries the sense of awe: seeing what is happening does not mean that response has arrived.
ALSO GROWS
yir’ah: Fear or awe
יִרְאָה
This noun from the same root shows that the verse’s response is a posture, not simply information about God.
nora: Awe-inspiring, fearsome
נוֹרָא
This branch describes what evokes awe, linking the response in the verse with the reality that inspires it.
THE PATTERN
The LORD’s reality draws people and communities toward awe, a response the text can also name as absent.
And Israel saw that great work which the LORD did upon the Egyptians: and the people feared the LORD, and believed the LORD, and his servant Moses.Let all the earth fear the LORD: let all the inhabitants of the world stand in awe of him.Then had the churches rest throughout all Judæa and Galilee and Samaria, and were edified; and walking in the fear of the Lord, and in the comfort of the Holy Ghost, were multiplied.THE THREAD
And Israel saw that great work which the LORD did upon the Egyptians: and the people feared the LORD, and believed the LORD, and his servant Moses.The same Hebrew root ירא (y-r-ʾ, to fear or stand in awe) appears in both verses. One names awe as withheld; the other names it as the people’s response to what they see.
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