What Does Ezekiel 30:20 Mean in the King James?
And it came to pass in the eleventh year, in the first month, in the seventh day of the month, that the word of the LORD came 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 LORD’s word is davar: spoken word that can also name a matter or thing.
THE MEANING
You meet the verse at the instant an address arrives: the LORD’s word is spoken to a person in a specific moment, and its saying is about to unfold. You stand at the threshold of the message before its content is named.
THE ROOT
דְּבַר
devar
GROWS FROM
דבר
d-b-r
To speak; as a noun, a word or matter.
The verse names a דְּבַר (devar, word) of the LORD. In this Hebrew word family, speech and the matter spoken of are joined, so the address is more than a sound: it brings a matter into view.
ALSO GROWS
dibber: He spoke.
דִּבֵּר
This verb from the same root makes the spoken quality of the LORD’s word explicit.
devarim: Words; matters or things.
דְּבָרִים
This plural shows how the same root can name both what is said and the matters being spoken of.
THE PATTERN
The word arrives at a particular moment as an address to a person.
Then the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,Annas and Caiaphas being the high priests, the word of God came unto John the son of Zacharias in the wilderness.THE THREAD
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.Genesis uses the same Hebrew word, דָּבָר (davar, word or matter), in a similar arrival formula. There, too, the arriving word opens into a specific saying.
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