What Does Ezekiel 32:7 Mean in the King James?
And when I shall put thee out, I will cover the heaven, and make the stars thereof dark; I will cover the sun with a cloud, and the moon shall not give her light.
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 Hebrew word for darkening also speaks of mourning, so the verse makes the sky itself take on grief when its lights go out.
THE MEANING
This verse shows a power being extinguished, and the darkening spreads across the whole sky: the stars dim, the sun is covered, and the moon gives no light. It speaks now to the moment when the familiar frame of your world goes dark all at once.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
The lie that the world’s familiar lights guarantee its order cannot be shaken dissolves here: every light in the scene goes dark.
THE ROOT
וְהִקְדַּרְתִּי
wĕhiqdarktî
GROWS FROM
קדר
to grow dark or gloomy; by extension, to mourn
“make ... dark” in this verse is wĕhiqdarktî. The Hebrew darkening verb belongs to a word family that also names mourning. The heavens do not merely lose illumination; the verse casts the whole sky in the language of grief.
ALSO GROWS
qāḏar: to grow dark; to mourn
קָדַר
This verbal form holds visible darkening and mourning in the same root, deepening the force of the stars going dark.
qōdēr: dark, gloomy; mourning
קֹדֵר
This form applies the root to a dark or grieving state, so the sky’s darkness carries the word’s note of grief.
אֲכַסֶּנּוּ
ʾăkassennû
GROWS FROM
כסה
to cover, conceal, or hide from sight
The verse uses the cover root for the heavens and again for the sun beneath a cloud. Darkness is pictured as a covering laid over what ordinarily shines, joining the stars and the sun through one action.
ALSO GROWS
kāsāh: to cover, conceal
כָּסָה
This verbal form names the covering action repeated across the verse.
mikseh: a covering; a roof or covering
מִכְסֶה
This noun shares the root’s consonants and makes the covering itself visible as a thing laid over what is beneath.
אוֹרוֹ
ʾôrô
GROWS FROM
אור
light; to shine or become luminous
The moon’s light is not a separate idea from the Hebrew word for light itself: אוֹר names the radiance, while מָאוֹר names a luminary that bears it. The moon’s failure is the withholding of the very light it exists to show.
ALSO GROWS
ʾôr: light, illumination
אוֹר
This is the root word contained in “its light,” naming the radiance the moon no longer gives.
māʾôr: luminary; light-bearer
מָאוֹר
This related word names a bearer of light, sharpening the verse’s image of a heavenly light-bearer ceasing to shine.
THE PATTERN
When a world faces upheaval, Scripture shows its scale by darkening the lights of heaven.
The earth shall quake before them; the heavens shall tremble: the sun and the moon shall be dark, and the stars shall withdraw their shining:And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the Lord GOD, that I will cause the sun to go down at noon, and I will darken the earth in the clear day:Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken:THE THREAD
The earth shall quake before them; the heavens shall tremble: the sun and the moon shall be dark, and the stars shall withdraw their shining:Joel uses the same Hebrew root, קדר (q-d-r), for the sun and moon growing dark that Ezekiel uses for making the stars dark. That shared verb links the passages: celestial darkening gives upheaval cosmic scale.
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