What Does Ezekiel 27:18 Mean in the King James?
Damascus was thy merchant in the multitude of the wares of thy making, for the multitude of all riches; in the wine of Helbon, and white wool.
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 verse shows abundance in motion: a city’s making becomes wealth as it passes through other hands.
THE MEANING
Your making enters the world through exchange, and abundance takes tangible form in Helbon wine and white wool. The verse shows wealth moving among people through what they make, trade, and receive.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
It loosens the belief that wealth exists only as private possession: here, abundance appears through goods moving between makers and merchants.
THE ROOT
סֹחַרְתֵּךְ
sōḥartēkh
GROWS FROM
סחר
To go about; to trade or traffic.
English “merchant” names a role, while the Hebrew root also carries the motion of going about in trade. It reveals wealth as circulation: what you make moves outward into exchange and meets goods from elsewhere.
ALSO GROWS
sōḥēr: Merchant or trader.
סֹחֵר
The verse names Damascus through the person who carries its making into trade.
sĕḥōrāh: Merchandise or trade.
סְחֹרָה
This branch makes the movement itself visible: the city’s goods become part of an exchange.
sāḥar: To trade, traffic, or go about.
סָחַר
The verb’s sense of movement opens “merchant” beyond a fixed title and shows the goods circulating among people.
THE PATTERN
A city’s abundance takes form as its goods move through trade.
She maketh fine linen, and selleth it; and delivereth girdles unto the merchant.And by great waters the seed of Sihor, the harvest of the river, is her revenue; and she is a mart of nations.And the merchants of the earth shall weep and mourn over her; for no man buyeth their merchandise any more:THE THREAD
These were thy merchants in all sorts of things, in blue clothes, and broidered work, and in chests of rich apparel, bound with cords, and made of cedar, among thy merchandise.This verse repeats the Hebrew root סחר (sāḥar, to trade) in “merchants” and expands the cargo to embroidered cloth and rich apparel. It opens the current verse’s wine and wool as part of a wider movement of goods through trade.
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