What Does Ezekiel 30:3 Mean in the King James?
For the day is near, even the day of the LORD is near, a cloudy day; it shall be the time of the heathen.
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 repeated “near” comes from a root of approach, so the day is not just close on a calendar, it is moving toward encounter.
THE MEANING
The day of the LORD is near: a clouded day, and the appointed time of the nations. The verse places the reader before an approaching reckoning, with the nations within its scope and no clear sight of what comes next.
THE ROOT
קָרוֹב
qarov
GROWS FROM
קרב
q-r-b
To approach, draw near, or bring close.
English “near” can sound like a static measure of distance. The Hebrew word comes from a root of movement toward encounter: the day approaches, as something brought near does, and as opposing sides come into contact in battle.
ALSO GROWS
qarav: To approach or draw near.
קָרַב
The same root makes “near” a movement toward the day, not only a point on a timeline.
qorbān: An offering brought near.
קָרְבָּן
The day’s nearness echoes the root’s sense of something being brought into proximity.
qerav: Battle or combat.
קְרָב
This branch carries approach into confrontation, fitting the verse’s clouded day of reckoning.
THE PATTERN
The day of reckoning is portrayed as an approaching threshold that gathers nations into its scope.
Blow ye the trumpet in Zion, and sound an alarm in my holy mountain: let all the inhabitants of the land tremble: for the day of the LORD cometh, for it is nigh at hand;The great day of the LORD is near, it is near, and hasteth greatly, even the voice of the day of the LORD: the mighty man shall cry there bitterly.Blessed is he that readeth, and they that hear the words of this prophecy, and keep those things which are written therein: for the time is at hand.THE THREAD
The great day of the LORD is near, it is near, and hasteth greatly, even the voice of the day of the LORD: the mighty man shall cry there bitterly.The Hebrew word for “near” in both verses comes from קרב (q-r-b), the root of approaching and drawing close. Zephaniah intensifies that movement: the day is near, near again, and hastening.
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