What Does Ezekiel 39:7 Mean in the King James?
So will I make my holy name known in the midst of my people Israel; and I will not let them pollute my holy name any more: and the heathen shall know that I am the LORD, the Holy One in Israel.
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
God’s name is God’s nature made known among a people, no longer left to be treated as common.
THE MEANING
God’s nature is made recognizable among a people, and the nations perceive the LORD as set apart in Israel. The people’s profaning does not get the final word about who God is.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
This undoes the belief that the failures of those who bear God’s name have the final say over God’s nature.
THE ROOT
אוֹדִיעַ
ʾôdîaʿ
GROWS FROM
ידע
Y-D-ʿ
To know or perceive through encounter.
“make known / know” in this verse is ʾôdîaʿ. The verse uses the same root for God making the name known and the nations coming to know it. What is revealed is not merely information about God, but a nature they can recognize.
ALSO GROWS
yada: Know, perceive
יָדַע
The nations’ knowing is encounter with the nature revealed among Israel.
daʿat: Knowledge, understanding
דַּעַת
This branch shows knowing as something received and recognized, not just a label heard.
hōdîaʿ: Make known, disclose
הוֹדִיעַ
This is the form used when God makes the name known; the disclosure leads into the nations’ knowing.
קָדוֹשׁ
qādōsh
GROWS FROM
קדש
Q-D-Sh
To set apart, mark as distinct.
The holy name carries the nature of what is set apart. The verse locates that distinctness in Israel, where it becomes visible to the nations.
ALSO GROWS
qōdesh: Set-apartness, sacredness
קֹדֶשׁ
It names the distinct nature the verse says will be made known.
miqdāsh: Sanctuary, set-apart place
מִקְדָּשׁ
This branch connects set-apartness with a place among the people.
qiddēsh: Set apart, consecrate
קִדֵּשׁ
It shows the active setting apart echoed in the verse’s declaration that the LORD is holy in Israel.
אֲחַלֵּל
ʾăḥallēl
GROWS FROM
חלל
Ḥ-L-L
To profane or treat as common.
“pollute” in this verse is ʾăḥallēl. The verse sets profaning against what is set apart: the name is treated as common, then God makes its nature known. The contrast concerns how the name is regarded, while its distinctness is revealed.
ALSO GROWS
ḥol: Common, ordinary
חֹל
It names the status profaning gives to what is set apart.
ḥillul: Profanation, desecration
חִלּוּל
This noun names the act the verse says will no longer be permitted.
THE PATTERN
The divine name becomes known when its set-apart nature is made visible among a people.
Neither shall ye profane my holy name; but I will be hallowed among the children of Israel: I am the LORD which hallow you,And I will sanctify my great name, which was profaned among the heathen, which ye have profaned in the midst of them; and the heathen shall know that I am the LORD, saith the Lord GOD, when I shall be sanctified in you before their eyes.I have manifested thy name unto the men which thou gavest me out of the world: thine they were, and thou gavest them me; and they have kept thy word.THE THREAD
And they that know thy name will put their trust in thee: for thou, LORD, hast not forsaken them that seek thee.Psalm 9:10 uses the same root, ידע (Y-D-ʿ), for knowing the name. It connects that encounter with the name to trust, showing how a nature made known becomes something a person can lean on.
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