What Does Ezekiel 34:29 Mean in the King James?
And I will raise up for them a plant of renown, and they shall be no more consumed with hunger in the land, neither bear the shame of the heathen any more.
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
God does not merely feed a famished people: the planting gives the land a new name where hunger and public shame once defined it.
THE MEANING
This promise speaks to the reader where scarcity and other people’s contempt make life feel barren. God’s planting establishes provision and a name that endures, so hunger no longer consumes the land and public shame no longer defines its people.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
The lie this verse undoes is that hunger and other people’s contempt are the permanent name of the land and its people. The planted future gives them another name, while hunger and shame lose their hold.
THE ROOT
מַטָּע
mattāʿ
GROWS FROM
נטע
To plant, set into soil.
מַטָּע (mattāʿ), a planting, comes from נטע (nāṭaʿ), to plant. The image is provision taking root in the land itself, a growing source rather than a passing supply.
ALSO GROWS
nāṭaʿ: to plant
נָטַע
The verb shows the active planting behind the promised source of provision.
neṭīʿāh: planting
נְטִיעָה
This noun makes the connection between the verse’s plant and the act of setting growth into the soil.
שֵׁם
shēm
GROWS FROM
שם
Name, reputation, fame.
“renown” in this verse is shēm. The phrase is literally a planting for a name. שֵׁם (shem) can carry the reputation or character by which something is known, so the planting brings a lasting identity as well as provision.
ALSO GROWS
ləshēm: for a name; as renown
לְשֵׁם
This is the phrase in the verse, joining the planting directly to the name it establishes.
shem ṭōv: a good name; a good reputation
שֵׁם טוֹב
This expression shows how a name can carry public character and regard, the very ground where the nations’ shame is undone.
כְּלִמַּת
kelimmat
GROWS FROM
כלם
To shame, humiliate, disgrace.
“shame” in this verse is kelimmat. This root describes humiliation, not only a private feeling of embarrassment. The verse says this public disgrace no longer clings to the people as the planted name takes hold.
ALSO GROWS
kelimmāh: shame, disgrace
כְּלִמָּה
This noun names the reproach the verse says will no longer be borne.
nikhlām: humiliated, put to shame
נִכְלָם
This form shows the root’s movement from an act of shaming to the state of being humiliated.
THE PATTERN
God’s restoration takes root as durable provision, so hunger and disgrace give way to fruitfulness and honor.
To appoint unto them that mourn in Zion, to give unto them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness; that they might be called trees of righteousness, the planting of the LORD, that he might be glorified.And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that bringeth forth his fruit in his season; his leaf also shall not wither; and whatsoever he doeth shall prosper.Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled.THE THREAD
To appoint unto them that mourn in Zion, to give unto them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness; that they might be called trees of righteousness, the planting of the LORD, that he might be glorified.Both verses use the planting root נטע (nāṭaʿ), showing restoration as something God plants and brings to life. Isaiah calls the people trees of righteousness, opening Ezekiel’s plant of renown as an identity that grows where grief and shame once held sway.
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