What Does Ezekiel 37:14 Mean in the King James?
And shall put my spirit in you, and ye shall live, and I shall place you in your own land: then shall ye know that I the LORD have spoken it, and performed it, saith the LORD.
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 one Hebrew word rendered “spirit” also means breath and wind: life enters as breath placed within you.
THE MEANING
The LORD places breath within you, and you live; you are set in your own land. The word spoken takes form, so knowing the LORD comes through life made present in you.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
The lie that a divine promise is only assurance without action dissolves here: the LORD’s word arrives as breath, life, and return.
THE ROOT
רוּחַ
ruach
GROWS FROM
רוח
r-w-ḥ
To blow or breathe; moving air.
The KJV renders this word “spirit” here, while the same Hebrew noun can name breath and wind. A related form from the same consonants names relief or room, so the breath placed within you also resonates with release from constriction and restoration to your land.
ALSO GROWS
ruach: Breath; wind in motion.
רוּחַ
This is the word in the verse, and its breath and wind senses keep the life placed within you connected to the force that moves through the world.
revach: Relief, room, respite.
רֶוַח
Its shared consonants carry a sense of gaining room, echoing the movement from constriction toward restored life and place.
THE PATTERN
Life returns when breath enters what cannot revive itself.
And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.The Spirit of God hath made me, and the breath of the Almighty hath given me life.And when he had said this, he breathed on them, and saith unto them, Receive ye the Holy Ghost:THE THREAD
Then said he unto me, Prophesy unto the wind, prophesy, son of man, and say to the wind, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Come from the four winds, O breath, and breathe upon these slain, that they may live.The Hebrew word rendered “wind” and “breath” there is ruach, the same noun the KJV renders “spirit” here. The breath called over the slain enters you in verse 14, joining revival with return to your own land.
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