What Does Ezekiel 29:21 Mean in the King James?
In that day will I cause the horn of the house of Israel to bud forth, and I will give thee the opening of the mouth in the midst of them; and they shall know that I am the LORD.
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
Israel’s strength does not arrive as a finished emblem: God makes its horn grow and opens a mouth among the people.
THE MEANING
The verse speaks in the pattern of restoration: God makes strength emerge and gives speech an opening among the people. As this growth becomes visible and speakable, they recognize the LORD. Their knowing follows what has taken shape before them.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
When a people’s strength and voice seem absent, they cannot return.
THE ROOT
אַצְמִיחַ
atsmiach
GROWS FROM
צמח
To sprout, grow, or put forth vegetation.
“bud forth” in this verse is atsmiach. The Hebrew verb means “I will cause to sprout.” It turns Israel’s strength from a static emblem into living growth, newly emerging in view.
ALSO GROWS
tsemach: Shoot, growth; in prophetic usage, “the Branch.”
צֶמַח
The same root can name new growth, giving Israel’s strength the texture of something emerging.
matzmiach: Causing to sprout or grow.
מַצְמִיחַ
This causative form makes the agency clear: the growth is made to happen.
פִּתְחוֹן
pithchon
GROWS FROM
פתח
To open.
Pithchon, “opening,” comes from the verb for opening. Joined to “mouth,” it pictures speech gaining passage into the space among the people.
ALSO GROWS
petach: Opening, doorway, entrance.
פֶּתַח
The shared root connects an opened mouth with an opening through which something can pass.
patuach: Open.
פָּתוּחַ
The verse’s opening is an act of making something accessible, not simply naming a mouth.
קֶרֶן
qeren
GROWS FROM
קרן
Horn; a projecting point, and by extension a ray or beam.
The horn is a projection and a common image of strength. The related verb qāran means to send out rays; paired with “sprout,” the image is strength beginning to project outward.
ALSO GROWS
qeren: Horn; also a symbol of strength.
קֶרֶן
Israel’s strength is pictured as something raised and projecting, now made to grow.
qāran: To emit rays or shine.
קָרַן
The shared consonants retain the image of something projecting outward, fitting the horn’s visible emergence.
THE PATTERN
God makes restoration recognizable as strength grows and speech carries its witness into the open.
There will I make the horn of David to bud: I have ordained a lamp for mine anointed.And he hath put a new song in my mouth, even praise unto our God: many shall see it, and fear, and shall trust in the LORD.As he spake by the mouth of his holy prophets, which have been since the world began:THE THREAD
There will I make the horn of David to bud: I have ordained a lamp for mine anointed.Both verses join the same Hebrew word for “horn” with the same root for “sprout.” The image makes strength something God brings into growth, rather than a finished emblem handed over all at once.
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