What Does Ezekiel 20:45 Mean in the King James?
Moreover 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
The Hebrew says the word was present to the speaker before it spoke, revealing presence before content.
THE MEANING
The LORD’s word comes to you as an address, not merely as information held at a distance. It is present and speaking as it reaches you, even before its message unfolds.
THE ROOT
דָּבָר
dābār
GROWS FROM
דבר
d-b-r
To speak; the noun also means a matter or thing.
English “word” can sound like a unit of language, but Hebrew dābār also names a matter or thing. Speech and the matter spoken belong to the same word-family, so the message is not detached information: it arrives as something being spoken.
ALSO GROWS
dābār: Word, matter, or thing.
דָּבָר
This noun is the word that reaches the speaker in the verse; its range connects the spoken message with the matter it carries.
dibbēr: Spoke, declared.
דִּבֵּר
This verb from the same root makes the word’s movement audible: what is present goes on to speak.
וַיְהִי
wayhî
GROWS FROM
היה
h-y-h
To be, become, or happen.
The Hebrew formula behind “came” begins with wayhî, literally “and it was.” The English emphasizes arrival; the Hebrew also opens the sense of the word being present to the speaker before it speaks.
ALSO GROWS
hāyāh: To be or become.
הָיָה
This is the basic form of the root behind wayhî, adding the sense of presence beneath the English “came.”
yihyeh: Will be.
יִהְיֶה
This form shares the same root and carries its sense of being into what is yet to come.
THE PATTERN
The word of the LORD is portrayed as reaching a person and becoming an address.
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.Then the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,But what saith it? The word is nigh thee, even in thy mouth, and in thy heart: that is, the word of faith, which we preach;THE THREAD
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 uses the same Hebrew noun דָּבָר (dābār, “word”) in the phrase “the word of the LORD came.” Then the word speaks: “Fear not.” It shows the word arriving not as an abstract idea, but as an address with something to say.
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