What Does Ezekiel 30:1 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
Hebrew *davar* can mean both “word” and “matter,” so the word that arrives carries substance into life.
THE MEANING
The LORD’s word reaches you as an arrival and opens into speech. *Davar* can also mean a matter or thing, binding what is spoken to the substance of the life you are living now.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
The lie that divine speech is only inert information dissolves here: the word arrives and speaks.
THE ROOT
דָּבָר
dāḇār
GROWS FROM
דבר
To speak; as a noun, speech, matter, affair, or thing.
English “word” can sound like a detachable sentence. Hebrew *davar* can name both speech and the matter or affair itself, so the arriving word meets reality as more than information about it.
ALSO GROWS
dāḇār: A word, matter, affair, or thing.
דָּבָר
The same word can name both what is spoken and the matter being addressed.
dibber: He spoke; uttered.
דִּבֵּר
This verbal branch shows the word in motion: it arrives to be spoken.
THE PATTERN
Divine speech arrives in human life and becomes address, healing, or embodied presence.
After these things the word of the LORD came unto Abram in a vision, saying, Fear not, Abram: I am thy shield, and thy exceeding great reward.He sent his word, and healed them, and delivered them from their destructions.And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.THE THREAD
And he humbled thee, and suffered thee to hunger, and fed thee with manna, which thou knewest not, neither did thy fathers know; that he might make thee know that man doth not live by bread only, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of the LORD doth man live.The Hebrew word translated “word” here is *davar*, the same word at Ezekiel 30:1. Deuteronomy makes its life-bearing dimension plain: the word that comes is not only heard; it sustains life.
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