What Does Ezekiel 20:9 Mean in the King James?
But I wrought for my name’s sake, that it should not be polluted before the heathen, among whom they were, in whose sight I made myself known unto them, in bringing them forth out of the land of Egypt.
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 name God guards from being profaned is the very nature God makes known by bringing people out of constriction.
THE MEANING
God’s nature becomes perceptible in the act of bringing people out from constriction. For the reader now, deliverance is a public unveiling of who God is.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
God’s name is only a title whose honor depends on what people say about it. This verse locates its honor in what God does: bringing people out and making that nature known.
THE ROOT
נוֹדַעְתִּי
nôdaʿtî
GROWS FROM
ידע
y-d-ʿ
To know, recognize, or perceive.
“made myself known” in this verse is nôdaʿtî. This form says “I was made known,” from יָדַע (yada, know or perceive): God’s nature is encountered and recognized through what God does. The object is שֵׁם (shem, name as nature), and the means is deliverance.
ALSO GROWS
daʿat: Knowledge or perception.
דַּעַת
It shows that knowing is more than hearing a title; it is recognition of the nature being revealed.
yaduʿa: Known or recognized.
יָדוּעַ
It shares the root’s movement from something hidden to something recognized, as God’s nature becomes visible through release.
לְהוֹצִיאָם
ləhoṣîʾām
GROWS FROM
יצא
y-ṣ-ʾ
To go out, come forth, or emerge.
“bringing them forth” in this verse is ləhoṣîʾām. The Hebrew describes deliverance as bringing people out. מִצְרַיִם (Mitzrayim, the two narrows) names the constriction they leave; the exit itself is how God’s nature becomes known.
ALSO GROWS
yetsiʾah: A departure or way out.
יְצִיאָה
It makes the deliverance concrete: the people are moved out of the constricted place.
totsaʾah: What comes forth or results.
תּוֹצָאָה
It lets the root’s movement carry into what release brings forth, not only the act of leaving.
THE PATTERN
God makes the nature carried by the divine name visible through deliverance, so release becomes a witness among peoples.
And in very deed for this cause have I raised thee up, for to shew in thee my power; and that my name may be declared throughout all the earth.Nevertheless he saved them for his name’s sake, that he might make his mighty power to be known.Simeon hath declared how God at the first did visit the Gentiles, to take out of them a people for his name.THE THREAD
And I will take you to me for a people, and I will be to you a God: and ye shall know that I am the LORD your God, which bringeth you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians.The same roots bind knowing to going out: יָדַע (yada, know) and יָצָא (yatsa, go out). The LORD is recognized in the release itself, as the one who brings people out from constriction.
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