What Does Ezekiel 32:1 Mean in the King James?

And it came to pass in the twelfth year, in the twelfth month, in the first day of the month, that the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,

Ezekiel 32:1 · KJV

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King James Version The King James Version, first published in 1611. Selah Verse shows the standard text.

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THE KEY

The word arrives not as a floating idea but as something that comes into a particular moment and speaks.

THE MEANING

The dated moment has a clear edge: the word of the LORD comes to you there, as something present that speaks. The Hebrew word for “word” can also mean a matter or thing, so what reaches you is not only language but something made present.

THE ROOT

דְּבַר־יְהוָה

devar-YHWH

GROWS FROM

דבר

To speak; as a noun, a word, matter, or affair.

The word that comes is also a matter that enters the moment: Hebrew holds speech and what is spoken together. English can make “word” sound like mere language, while this root lets you hear something arriving with substance and speaking.

ALSO GROWS

dāḇār: Word, matter, or affair.

דָּבָר

This branch shows that what comes to you is both something spoken and a matter brought into presence.

dibbēr: To speak or say.

דִּבֵּר

The root moves from the arriving word to active speech: it comes to you saying something.

THE PATTERN

The word of the LORD becomes present as speech that reaches a particular person or place.

And the LORD came, and stood, and called as at other times, Samuel, Samuel. Then Samuel answered, Speak; for thy servant heareth.

1 Samuel 3:10 · KJVThe word becomes an encounter: the LORD comes near, calls, and is answered.

By the word of the LORD were the heavens made; and all the host of them by the breath of his mouth.

Psalm 33:6 · KJVThe word that comes and speaks is also presented as the means by which the heavens take form.

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.

John 1:14 · KJVThe Word is shown as present among people, no longer only heard but dwelling with them.

THE THREAD

By the word of the LORD were the heavens made; and all the host of them by the breath of his mouth.

Psalm 33:6 · KJV

“Word” is ⁨דָּבָר⁩ (dāḇār) in both verses, from the root ⁨דבר⁩ (d-b-r), “to speak; word or matter.” The word that comes to you in Ezekiel is carried by the same root as the word through which the heavens are made.

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