What Does Ezekiel 22:17 Mean in the King James?
And 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 root holds “word” and “saying” together: what arrives is already speech in motion.
THE MEANING
The LORD’s word reaches the reader before its message unfolds; what arrives is not mute information but speech that addresses. The verse places hearing at the threshold: the word comes, then says.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
It undoes the idea that revelation is only a static sentence: here the word is an arrival that speaks.
THE ROOT
דְּבַר
dĕvar
GROWS FROM
ד־ב־ר
D-B-R
To speak or utter; the related noun also means a word, matter, or thing.
The verse follows “the word came” with “saying,” and Hebrew links both through the root ד־ב־ר. The word is not merely a label for information: it arrives as speech.
ALSO GROWS
dābār: Word, matter, or thing.
דָּבָר
It shows that the arriving “word” can hold both an utterance and the matter being spoken.
dibbēr: Spoke or speaks.
דִּבֵּר
This verbal branch shares the root with “word,” joining what arrives to the act of saying.
THE PATTERN
The divine word reaches a hearer as speech that comes and addresses.
Then the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,God, who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets,While Peter yet spake these words, the Holy Ghost fell on all them which heard the word.THE THREAD
The word of the LORD came expressly unto Ezekiel the priest, the son of Buzi, in the land of the Chaldeans by the river Chebar; and the hand of the LORD was there upon him.The same Hebrew noun, דָּבָר (dābār, word or matter), appears in the same phrase: “the word of the LORD came.” That repeated wording lets you hear the word as both a message and an arrival that leads into speech.
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