What Does Ezekiel 36:2 Mean in the King James?
Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because the enemy hath said against you, Aha, even the ancient high places are ours in possession:
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 enemy’s word for “possession” grows from a root that holds both inheriting and dispossessing, so its boast names an act, not settled ownership.
THE MEANING
The voice against you names what has endured as if it already belongs to it. The verse lets you hear the claim without turning the adversary’s certainty into a verdict.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
A declaration of ownership is not proof of rightful possession.
THE ROOT
מוֹרָשָׁה
morashah
GROWS FROM
ירש
To inherit or take possession; in causative forms, to dispossess or drive out.
The Hebrew noun translated “possession” grows from יָרַשׁ (yarash), a root that holds both inheriting and dispossessing. The English phrase sounds like static ownership, while the root also carries the action of taking and displacing.
ALSO GROWS
yarash: Inherit, take possession; also dispossess.
יָרַשׁ
The base verb preserves the active force beneath the enemy’s claim: taking possession can involve displacing another.
horish: Cause to possess or inherit; dispossess, drive out.
הוֹרִישׁ
This causative branch makes the root’s double edge plain: one party’s possession can be another’s removal.
THE PATTERN
A voice seeking dominion speaks as though its claim already determines who owns the place, people, or power.
Thy silver and thy gold is mine; thy wives also and thy children, even the goodliest, are mine.For he saith, By the strength of my hand I have done it, and by my wisdom; for I am prudent: and I have removed the bounds of the people, and have robbed their treasures, and I have put down the inhabitants like a valiant man:And the devil said unto him, All this power will I give thee, and the glory of them: for that is delivered unto me; and to whomsoever I will I give it.THE THREAD
Speak not thou in thine heart, after that the LORD thy God hath cast them out from before thee, saying, For my righteousness the LORD hath brought me in to possess this land: but for the wickedness of these nations the LORD doth drive them out from before thee.The root יָרַשׁ (yarash, inherit or take possession; also dispossess) appears in Deuteronomy’s “possess” and “drive them out.” That double edge opens Ezekiel’s “possession” as an active taking that can involve displacement, not only a static title.
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