What Does Ezekiel 36:14 Mean in the King James?
Therefore thou shalt devour men no more, neither bereave thy nations any more, saith the Lord GOD.
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 land is restored when it no longer devours the people formed from its own ground.
THE MEANING
The ground that holds you is not bound to keep consuming its people: the verse declares an end to that appetite and to the collapse of its nations. Its wholeness appears as human lives no longer swallowed and communities no longer brought down.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
A land that has consumed its people is condemned to keep doing so.
THE ROOT
תֹאכְלִי
tokhlî
GROWS FROM
אכל
ʾ-k-l
eat, consume
“devour” in this verse is tokhlî. The verb makes the land an eater and its people what it consumes. The same root names both eating and food, so the verse pictures human life as swallowed into the land’s appetite, and then declares that appetite ended.
ALSO GROWS
maʾakhal: food; what is eaten
מַאֲכָל
This branch shows what the land’s eating takes in: the people it bears.
ʾokhel: one who eats
אֹכֵל
The land itself is cast as the eater, so its restoration changes what it does to its people.
אָדָם
adam
GROWS FROM
אדם
ʾ-d-m
human; its sound-shape echoes אֲדָמָה (adamah), ground or soil
The verse’s “men” are אָדָם (adam, humans), a word the Torah places beside אֲדָמָה (adamah, ground) when it describes human formation. The land devouring humans is therefore, in the word’s own echo, ground consuming the ground-born.
ALSO GROWS
adamah: ground, soil
אֲדָמָה
Its shared consonants bind the people being consumed to the land that consumes them.
adom: red
אָדֹם
This branch carries the same consonants in the word for red, echoing the earth-colored ground from which human life is formed.
תְכַשְׁלִי
tekhashlî
GROWS FROM
כשל
k-sh-l
stumble, totter, fall; in the causative form, make stumble
Behind “bereave” is a verb whose root also means to stumble or fall. The harm named here reaches beyond individual loss: a whole people is brought down, and the declaration ends that collapse.
ALSO GROWS
kashal: stumble, fall
כָּשַׁל
This is the root’s basic movement: a people brought to the point of falling.
mikhshol: stumbling block, obstacle
מִכְשׁוֹל
This branch shows how a people can be made to fall through what stands in their way.
THE PATTERN
A world is restored when what surrounds and sustains human life stops consuming its people and making them fall.
And I will establish my covenant with you; neither shall all flesh be cut off any more by the waters of a flood; neither shall there any more be a flood to destroy the earth.And in that day will I make a covenant for them with the beasts of the field, and with the fowls of heaven, and with the creeping things of the ground: and I will break the bow and the sword and the battle out of the earth, and will make them to lie down safely.And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away.THE THREAD
And they shall no more be a prey to the heathen, neither shall the beast of the land devour them; but they shall dwell safely, and none shall make them afraid.Ezekiel 34:28 uses אָכַל (ʾakhal, eat or consume) for the beast that no longer devours the people. The shared root reveals one pattern across land and predator: restoration ends the consuming of human life.
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