What Does Ezekiel 24:1 Mean in the King James?

Again in the ninth year, in the tenth month, in the tenth day of the month, the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,

Ezekiel 24:1 · KJV

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 date is part of the revelation: in Hebrew, davar can mean both “word” and “matter,” joining what is spoken to what is taking shape in lived time.

THE MEANING

This verse meets you inside a particular moment, down to a named day. The word is not a floating idea: it arrives to be spoken, bringing its matter into the present.

WHAT THIS UNDOES

It undoes the belief that divine speech is detached from ordinary time: here, the word arrives on a specific day.

THE ROOT

דָּבָר

davar

GROWS FROM

דבר

d-b-r

To speak or utter; the related noun davar can also mean a matter or affair.

The noun davar can name a spoken word and a matter or affair, while the related verb dibber means “he spoke.” The shared root holds utterance and what is at stake together: the word comes, then speaks.

ALSO GROWS

dibber: He spoke; uttered.

דִּבֵּר

This verbal form makes explicit that the arriving word is spoken, not merely an idea.

devarim: Words; matters or affairs.

דְּבָרִים

This plural keeps speech and matters together, echoing how the verse presents the word as something entering a specific moment.

THE PATTERN

God’s word enters a particular life in time and acts as living speech.

To whom the word of the LORD came in the days of Josiah the son of Amon king of Judah, in the thirteenth year of his reign.

Jeremiah 1:2 · KJVThe word arrives within named days, placing its speech inside a particular span of life.

Now the word of the LORD came unto Jonah the son of Amittai, saying,

Jonah 1:1 · KJVThe word reaches a person and becomes direct speech.

For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.

Hebrews 4:12 · KJVThe word is present and active, reaching what is inward and discerning it.

THE THREAD

By the word of the LORD were the heavens made; and all the host of them by the breath of his mouth.

Psalm 33:6 · KJV

The word translated “word” is again Hebrew davar, the same word-and-matter root. Here it is joined to the making of the heavens, extending Ezekiel’s arriving word from a precise moment to creation itself.

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