What Does Ezekiel 35:1 Mean in the King James?

Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,

Ezekiel 35:1 · KJV

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

Before the message is revealed, the word itself becomes an encounter.

THE MEANING

The LORD’s word reaches you at the threshold before its message unfolds. What comes is already present, and what it means is about to be spoken.

THE ROOT

דָּבָר

davar

GROWS FROM

דבר

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

Davar can name both speech and the matter being spoken about. The word that reaches you is not only sound; it carries substance.

ALSO GROWS

davar: Word, speech, matter, or thing.

דָּבָר

The same word can name what is spoken and what the speech concerns, joining message with substance.

dibber: Spoke or declared.

דִּבֵּר

This verbal form makes the word’s arrival an opening into speech: it comes, then begins saying.

וַיְהִי

wayehi

GROWS FROM

היה

To be, become, or happen.

“came” in this verse is wayehi. The Hebrew form carries the sense “and it happened” or “and it was” alongside the English sense of arrival. The word’s coming is also an event taking place.

ALSO GROWS

hayah: Was, became, or happened.

הָיָה

This form shows the event-shaped sense beneath the word’s arrival.

ehyeh: I am or I will be.

אֶהְיֶה

The same root appears in the divine name spoken to Moses, tying this moment of happening to the language of being.

THE PATTERN

The divine word is introduced as an encounter that arrives before its content is disclosed.

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 15:1 · KJVThe word arrives before its message, which then speaks directly into Abram’s fear.

And the LORD appeared again in Shiloh: for the LORD revealed himself to Samuel in Shiloh by the word of the LORD.

1 Samuel 3:21 · KJVThe word is the form through which the LORD makes himself known.

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

John 1:1 · KJVThe Word is presented not merely as a message but as belonging to God’s own being.

THE THREAD

And God said unto Moses, I AM THAT I AM: and he said, Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, I AM hath sent me unto you.

Exodus 3:14 · KJV

The Hebrew behind “came” in this verse and “I AM” in Exodus 3:14 share the root ⁨היה⁩ (hayah), meaning to be, become, or happen. The arriving word is framed as an event, while the root’s other form speaks the name of being itself.

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