What Does Ezekiel 14:12 Mean in the King James?
The word of the LORD came again to me, saying,
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 Hebrew word for “word” also means “matter”: what the LORD says is already the matter coming into view.
THE MEANING
This line is a threshold: the word arrives, and “saying” leaves the matter open for what follows. As you read now, the verse draws attention to a word arriving before its contents are disclosed.
THE ROOT
דָּבָר
dābār
GROWS FROM
דבר
to speak or declare
Dābār (דָּבָר) can mean both a spoken word and a matter or affair. Hebrew holds utterance and subject together, so this opening announces more than speech: it brings a matter into view for what follows to disclose.
ALSO GROWS
dābār: word, matter, or affair
דָּבָר
The word arriving here is also the matter about to be disclosed.
dibbēr: spoke or declared
דִּבֵּר
This verb from the same root shows the act of speaking that gives the word its voice.
THE PATTERN
God’s spoken word is presented as speech that reaches beyond sound into outcome.
For he spake, and it was done; he commanded, and it stood fast.So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it.For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.THE THREAD
For the word of the LORD is right; and all his works are done in truth.“Word” here is dābār (דָּבָר, “word” or “matter”), the same Hebrew word used in Ezekiel’s opening. Psalm 33:4 places that word beside God’s works, opening Ezekiel’s announcement as a concrete matter whose content is about to unfold.
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