What Does Ezekiel 37:18 Mean in the King James?
And when the children of thy people shall speak unto thee, saying, Wilt thou not shew us what thou meanest by these?
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 Hebrew asks what these signs are “to you,” making their meaning a matter of relation as well as interpretation.
THE MEANING
The question reaches you when a sign calls for interpretation: what are these things to you? Their meaning is disclosed in the relation they bear to your life, beyond simply naming what you see.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
Meaning is only a detached fact, unrelated to the person receiving the sign.
THE ROOT
תַּגִּיד
taggid
GROWS FROM
נגד
To stand out or be made known; in this form, to tell or declare.
“shew” in this verse is taggid. The verb asks you to bring the sign’s significance into the open. Its root also gives words for telling and for a leader who stands before others, linking disclosure with what becomes visible and speakable.
ALSO GROWS
haggadah: A telling or narrative.
הַגָּדָה
The sign’s meaning becomes a story that can be spoken and shared.
nagid: A leader or ruler; one who stands before others.
נָגִיד
This branch echoes the root’s sense of what stands out in view, illuminating the request to make the signs’ significance clear.
THE PATTERN
A sign becomes shared teaching when someone asks what it means and its significance is made known.
And it shall be when thy son asketh thee in time to come, saying, What is this? that thou shalt say unto him, By strength of hand the LORD brought us out from Egypt, from the house of bondage:And the eunuch answered Philip, and said, I pray thee, of whom speaketh the prophet this? of himself, or of some other man?THE THREAD
Behold, the former things are come to pass, and new things do I declare: before they spring forth I tell you of them.“I declare” in Isaiah uses the same Hebrew root, נגד, as “shew” here: both bring something into the open through telling. Ezekiel’s question asks for the meaning of a sign already present; Isaiah speaks of what is declared before it springs forth.
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