What Does Ezekiel 20:34 Mean in the King James?
And I will bring you out from the people, and will gather you out of the countries wherein ye are scattered, with a mighty hand, and with a stretched out arm, and with fury poured out.
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 gathering is no quiet return: the verse joins extraction to a mighty hand, an extended arm, and fury poured out.
THE MEANING
You are addressed as scattered among peoples, yet the verse speaks of you as being brought out and gathered from those very lands. A mighty hand and an extended arm carry the movement, with fury poured out alongside it.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
It undoes the belief that being scattered makes you unreachable: the verse names the very lands of dispersion as places from which gathering happens.
THE ROOT
וְקִבַּצְתִּי
weqibbatsti
GROWS FROM
קבץ
qabats
To gather, collect.
קבץ (qabats, gather) answers the dispersion directly: the people are collected from the same lands where they are scattered. The movement is from separation toward reassembly.
ALSO GROWS
qabats: To gather, collect.
קָבַץ
The verb names the gathering as an active collection of people.
qibbuts: Gathering, collection.
קִבּוּץ
This noun makes the root’s sense of bringing together visible.
נְפֹצוֹתֶם
nephotzotem
GROWS FROM
פוץ
puts
To scatter, disperse.
פוץ (puts, scatter) names dispersion as the condition from which the people are gathered. It does not make the scattered unreachable; the verse places scattering and gathering in the same movement.
ALSO GROWS
puts: To scatter, disperse.
פּוּץ
The root names the separating movement behind the verse’s scattered condition.
nafotz: Scattered, dispersed.
נָפוֹץ
This form shows dispersion as a state, not an endpoint.
שְׁפוּכָה
shefukhah
GROWS FROM
שפך
shaphakh
To pour out, spill, shed.
“poured out” in this verse is shefukhah. שפך (shaphakh, pour out) makes the fury a discharged force, not a concealed mood. That force stays beside the gathering; the verse does not make the movement gentle by leaving the anger unspoken.
ALSO GROWS
shaphakh: To pour out, spill, shed.
שָׁפַךְ
The verb gives the image of fury poured out its forceful, physical quality.
shafukh: Poured out, spilled.
שָׁפוּךְ
This passive form echoes the verse’s image of fury already poured out.
THE PATTERN
Dispersion does not make people unreachable; the gathering reaches into the very lands where they are scattered.
That then the LORD thy God will turn thy captivity, and have compassion upon thee, and will return and gather thee from all the nations, whither the LORD thy God hath scattered thee.And gathered them out of the lands, from the east, and from the west, from the north, and from the south.And not for that nation only, but that also he should gather together in one the children of God that were scattered abroad.THE THREAD
Therefore say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; I will even gather you from the people, and assemble you out of the countries where ye have been scattered, and I will give you the land of Israel.Ezekiel 11:17 repeats קבץ (qabats, gather) alongside פוץ (puts, scatter). The scattered lands are the very places from which the gathering takes place.
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