What Does Ezekiel 17:11 Mean in the King James?

Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,

Ezekiel 17:11 · KJV

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

In Hebrew, the word that reaches Ezekiel can also mean a matter or thing: the message arrives as something taking shape, not mere information.

THE MEANING

The verse places you at the instant an address arrives: the LORD’s word meets you in the present. Its content is about to unfold, and the moment of arrival is already part of the message.

WHAT THIS UNDOES

The word of the LORD is only distant information that cannot address you now.

THE ROOT

דְּבַר

dəvar

GROWS FROM

דבר

To speak; as a noun, a word, matter, or thing.

The Hebrew noun ⁨דָּבָר⁩ can name both speech and a matter or thing. English makes the word sound like a message being delivered; the Hebrew also lets you hear a matter arriving with it.

ALSO GROWS

dibber: spoke, declared

דִּבֵּר

The spoken word shares the same root as the matter that reaches Ezekiel: the message is an address, not detached information.

devarim: words, matters

דְּבָרִים

This plural keeps speech and matters together, opening the possibility that what is said bears upon what is happening.

THE PATTERN

The LORD’s word arrives to a hearer before its content unfolds, making revelation an encounter rather than detached information.

After these things the word of the LORD came unto Abram in a vision, saying, Fear not, Abram: I am thy shield, and thy exceeding great reward.

Genesis 15:1 · KJVThe word arrives first, then speaks reassurance into Abram’s present.

Then the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,

Jeremiah 1:4 · KJVAs in Ezekiel, the arrival itself opens the moment before the message is spoken.

Annas and Caiaphas being the high priests, the word of God came unto John the son of Zacharias in the wilderness.

Luke 3:2 · KJVThe word reaches John as a present address, continuing the pattern across the scriptures.

THE THREAD

By the word of the LORD were the heavens made; and all the host of them by the breath of his mouth.

Psalm 33:6 · KJV

Psalm 33:6 uses the same Hebrew word, ⁨דָּבָר⁩ (dābār), for the LORD’s word. There it is active in the making of the heavens, revealing a word that does more than inform: it gives shape to what comes to be.

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