What Does Ezekiel 14:2 Mean in the King James?
And the word of the LORD came unto 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
What comes from the LORD is already both word and matter before it becomes a saying.
THE MEANING
The verse presents the LORD’s word as something that comes to a person and takes voice. Hebrew davar can mean both a word and a matter, so what arrives is more than detached sound: it carries substance into speech.
THE ROOT
דָּבָר
davar
GROWS FROM
דבר
To speak; as a noun, a word, matter, or affair.
Davar holds speech and substance together: a word can also be the matter itself. Here, what comes from the LORD is not just a message to hear but a matter that enters the scene.
ALSO GROWS
dibber: He spoke.
דִּבֵּר
The speaking verb shares the seed of the noun davar, linking the word with the act of giving it voice.
devar: Matter or affair; also the construct form of davar, “word of.”
דְּבַר
The same word can name the matter being addressed, revealing substance within the utterance.
לֵאמֹר
lemor
GROWS FROM
אמר
To say, speak, or declare.
The verse moves from davar, the word or matter that comes, to lemor, the saying that gives it voice. Its wording holds arrival and utterance together.
ALSO GROWS
amar: To say or speak.
אָמַר
This is the verb behind lemor, making the word’s arrival audible as speech.
imrah: Utterance or saying.
אִמְרָה
This noun from the same root echoes the verse’s movement from what comes to what is spoken.
THE PATTERN
The word of God appears as an active reality that arrives, speaks, creates, and lives among people.
By the word of the LORD were the heavens made; and all the host of them by the breath of his mouth.And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.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
By the word of the LORD were the heavens made; and all the host of them by the breath of his mouth.The Hebrew phrase “word of the LORD” uses the same davar as Ezekiel’s verse. Psalm 33:6 shows that this davar not only arrives to be spoken; it is also the means through which the heavens come to be.
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