What Does Ezekiel 27:1 Mean in the King James?
The word of the LORD came again 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 word comes again because it is more than speech: its Hebrew root also names a matter with substance.
THE MEANING
The LORD’s word comes again; its arrival renews the hearing, and it has something to say. In this word, speech and matter share a root, so what reaches you is an address with substance, not empty sound.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
It undoes the belief that what has already been heard is exhausted: the word can come again with speech still within it.
THE ROOT
דְּבַר
devar
GROWS FROM
ד־ב־ר
To speak or utter; the same root also names a word, matter, or thing.
The same consonants hold speech and matter together: the word can name both what is said and a thing or affair. Its arrival carries substance, not just sound or information.
ALSO GROWS
dābār: Word, speech, matter, or thing.
דָּבָר
This branch shows that the word arriving is also a matter with substance.
dibber: He spoke; to declare or speak.
דִּבֵּר
This verbal branch makes the word’s arrival an act of speaking, not merely a message waiting to be read.
THE PATTERN
Divine speech arrives as an active word, carrying effect into what it addresses.
And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.He sent his word, and healed them, and delivered them from their destructions.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.THE THREAD
He sent his word, and healed them, and delivered them from their destructions.Psalm 107:20 uses the same Hebrew word, דָּבָר (dābār), for “word.” There, the word is sent and its effects are named; here, it comes again with speech still within it.
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