What Does Ezekiel 28:12 Mean in the King James?
Son of man, take up a lamentation upon the king of Tyrus, and say unto him, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Thou sealest up the sum, full of wisdom, and perfect in beauty.
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 behind “sum” carries the idea of a measured design, so perfection here has proportion and a finished form.
THE MEANING
The image meets you now as a picture of wholeness: wisdom fills a form, beauty marks it, and measured design gives it proportion. Fullness takes shape as something complete and particular.
THE ROOT
תָּכְנִית
tokhnit
GROWS FROM
תכן
To measure, weigh, or reckon; in this form, a measured pattern or design.
“sum” in this verse is tokhnit. The Hebrew form תָּכְנִית (tokhnit) means a measured pattern or design. Its root also appears when the LORD “weigheth” a person’s inner life, so this verse’s fullness carries the sense of proportion and reckoning.
ALSO GROWS
weigh: Measures or weighs; the same root תכן (takan) appears in Proverbs 16:2.
תֹּכֵן
The shared root connects this verse’s measured design with the weighing of what is within a person.
quota: A measured amount or required quota, as in the “tale of bricks” in Exodus 5:18.
תֹּכֶן
This branch shows the root naming a defined measure, giving “sum” the sense of a whole held in proportion.
THE PATTERN
Wisdom gives fullness a measured form, and that form makes its wholeness visible.
All the ways of a man are clean in his own eyes; but the LORD weigheth the spirits.O LORD, how manifold are thy works! in wisdom hast thou made them all: the earth is full of thy riches.For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them.THE THREAD
All the ways of a man are clean in his own eyes; but the LORD weigheth the spirits.The Hebrew word תָּכְנִית (tokhnit), “measured pattern,” and תֹּכֵן (tokhen), “weigheth,” grow from the root תכן (takan), “to measure or weigh.” That shared root opens Ezekiel’s image of completeness as a formed whole whose measure is known.
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