What Does Ezekiel 17:13 Mean in the King James?
And hath taken of the king’s seed, and made a covenant with him, and hath taken an oath of him: he hath also taken the mighty of the land:
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 covenant is part of a seizure: the royal future is taken, its ruler is bound by oath, and the land’s strength is taken.
THE MEANING
Here, power takes the royal line, binds its ruler by oath, and takes the land’s strongest; the covenant sits inside that sequence of control. The Hebrew verb translated “made” carries the image of cutting a covenant, a bond with consequences. The verse speaks wherever a people’s future, allegiance, and strength are gathered under another’s power.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
A covenant does not prove that a bond is freely chosen; here, the oath stands among acts of taking.
THE ROOT
וַיִּכְרֹת
wayyikhrat
GROWS FROM
כרת
karat
to cut; to cut off
The Hebrew says he “cut” a covenant, preserving an image of a bond made with consequences beneath the English “made.” Here, that bond is surrounded by taking, so the pledge belongs to the verse’s account of power.
ALSO GROWS
karat: to cut or cut off
כָּרַת
This verb supplies the image behind the phrase “cut a covenant.”
keritut: a cutting off; a certificate of divorce
כְּרִיתוּת
This noun carries the root’s severing sense into a formal bond that ends a relationship.
זֶרַע
zera
GROWS FROM
זרע
zara
to sow; seed
The king’s seed is both royal offspring and the seed of what continues. Taking it reaches into the future of the kingdom, so the seizure begins with lineage.
ALSO GROWS
zera: seed; offspring
זֶרַע
The same word names the royal line whose continuation is taken.
zorea: sower
זֹרֵעַ
The sower and the seed share a root, linking lineage with what is planted to continue.
THE PATTERN
A covenant or oath binds a future by giving a pledge consequences in the present.
In the same day the LORD made a covenant with Abram, saying, Unto thy seed have I given this land, from the river of Egypt unto the great river, the river Euphrates:And Joshua made peace with them, and made a league with them, to let them live: and the princes of the congregation sware unto them.For men verily swear by the greater: and an oath for confirmation is to them an end of all strife.THE THREAD
In the same day the LORD made a covenant with Abram, saying, Unto thy seed have I given this land, from the river of Egypt unto the great river, the river Euphrates:The Hebrew phrase for “made a covenant” uses the same root כרת (karat), “to cut,” that appears in Ezekiel. In Genesis, the bond carries a promise; here, the same covenant language sits within taking, showing how the power around a pledge shapes what it means.
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