What Does Ezekiel 16:3 Mean in the King James?
And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD unto Jerusalem; Thy birth and thy nativity is of the land of Canaan; thy father was an Amorite, and thy mother an Hittite.
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 root behind nativity also names generations, making Jerusalem’s origin a lineage that keeps taking form.
THE MEANING
This verse meets the reader wherever a revered identity is treated as proof of a pure origin. Jerusalem’s birth and parentage are named in Canaanite terms, and the accusation stays sharp: sacred status does not conceal the lineage being exposed.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
A sacred identity or inherited status guarantees a pure origin.
THE ROOT
מֹלְדֹתַיִךְ
moledotayikh
GROWS FROM
ילד
y-l-d
To bear or beget; to bring forth.
The word rendered nativity comes from the root ילד (y-l-d), to bear or beget, the same seed that names a child and the generations that follow. The accusation frames origin as what is brought forth and carried onward, not merely a place on a map.
ALSO GROWS
yalad: To bear, beget.
יָלַד
The verb behind nativity makes the word a result of bringing forth.
yeled: Child.
יֶלֶד
The same seed names the one brought forth, tying origin to offspring.
toledot: Generations, genealogies.
תּוֹלְדוֹת
This branch carries birth forward into the lineage a person or people produces.
THE PATTERN
Ancestry in scripture names the nature a people reproduce, not merely the pedigree they claim.
Thou art thy mother’s daughter, that lotheth her husband and her children; and thou art the sister of thy sisters, which lothed their husbands and their children: your mother was an Hittite, and your father an Amorite.And think not to say within yourselves, We have Abraham to our father: for I say unto you, that God is able of these stones to raise up children unto Abraham.They answered and said unto him, Abraham is our father. Jesus saith unto them, If ye were Abraham’s children, ye would do the works of Abraham.THE THREAD
This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day that God created man, in the likeness of God made he him;Genesis calls its lineage תּוֹלְדוֹת (toledot), generations, from the same ילד (y-l-d), to bear or beget, root as Ezekiel’s nativity. The shared root links origin to what continues to be brought forth.
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