What Does Ezekiel 36:16 Mean in the King James?

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

Ezekiel 36:16 · 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

The LORD’s “word” is davar: speech and the matter it brings into view share one root.

THE MEANING

The verse presents the LORD’s word as an address that arrives and speaks to a person. That arrival brings the message into the present, where its words reach the reader now.

THE ROOT

דָּבָר

davar

GROWS FROM

ד־ב־ר

To speak or declare; the noun also means a matter or thing.

English “word” can sound like a label for speech, but davar also names a matter or thing. Here, what the LORD says and the matter being spoken meet in one root: the address arrives carrying what it will bring into view.

ALSO GROWS

dibber: He spoke, said

דִּבֵּר

The spoken form shows that davar is not only a message as an object; it is speech reaching someone.

davar: Word, matter, thing

דָּבָר

The noun holds speech and the matter it concerns together, giving the arriving word substance.

THE PATTERN

The LORD’s word arrives as an address whose speech carries the matter it brings into view.

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 LORD’s davar arrives to Abram as speech that also brings a promise into view.

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 · KJVDavar is speech that brings the heavens into being, showing its force beyond the moment of hearing.

For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.

Hebrews 4:12 · KJVGod’s word is living and active, reaching into the reader rather than remaining distant information.

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

Ezekiel’s davar arrives as an address; Psalm 33:6 uses that same root for the word by which the heavens are made. The shared root joins speech directed to one person with speech that gives shape to creation.

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