What Does Ezekiel 38:1 Mean in the King James?
And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
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
Hebrew lets “word” carry both utterance and matter, so what reaches Ezekiel is speech with substance.
THE MEANING
When the LORD’s word reaches you, the encounter begins before its message is fully unfolded. You are being addressed, and that arrival is already part of what is revealed.
THE ROOT
דָּבָר
dāḇār
GROWS FROM
ד־ב־ר
d-b-r
To speak; the noun also means a matter or thing.
The English “word” can sound like information alone, but דָּבָר (dāḇār, word or matter) also names what has substance. The word that comes to Ezekiel is speech that stands as an event in his life.
ALSO GROWS
dāḇār: A word, matter, or thing.
דָּבָר
Its range lets “the word” carry both a spoken message and a matter that has come into being.
dibbēr: He spoke or uttered.
דִּבֵּר
The speaking branch shows the word as an act of address: it comes to Ezekiel and then speaks.
THE PATTERN
The divine word meets human life as an active presence, speaking, revealing, and taking form.
And the LORD appeared again in Shiloh: for the LORD revealed himself to Samuel in Shiloh by the word of the LORD.By the word of the LORD were the heavens made; and all the host of them by the breath of his mouth.And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.THE THREAD
By the word of the LORD were the heavens made; and all the host of them by the breath of his mouth.Both verses use דָּבָר (dāḇār, word or matter). In Ezekiel the word comes to a person; in the psalm it is present in the making of the heavens, joining divine address with effective action.
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