What Does Ezekiel 40:2 Mean in the King James?
In the visions of God brought he me into the land of Israel, and set me upon a very high mountain, by which was as the frame of a city on the south.
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 vision raises your vantage until the city’s built form becomes visible.
THE MEANING
You are brought into a way of seeing that gives a city shape and orientation. From the very high mountain, the scene is legible as a built form, not a shapeless impression. The verse speaks now of revelation as sight that lets structure come into view.
THE ROOT
מַרְאוֹת
mar'ot
GROWS FROM
רָאָה
ra'ah
to see, look, perceive
The word for visions grows from the root for seeing, keeping revelation close to perception itself. Here, that seeing brings a city’s definite form into view.
ALSO GROWS
ro'eh: a seer; one who sees
רֹאֶה
This branch makes the person receiving the vision part of the same language of seeing.
mar'eh: appearance, sight
מַרְאֶה
A vision is also an appearance: what is seen takes a visible shape.
מִבְנֵה
mivneh
GROWS FROM
בָּנָה
banah
to build, construct
The word translated “frame” names a structure, and its root is the act of building. The vision presents the city as something with a discernible built form, not an undefined image.
ALSO GROWS
boneh: builder; one who builds
בּוֹנֶה
This branch keeps the city’s visible structure connected to the work of building.
nivneh: being built
נִבְנֶה
The same root can describe a structure as something taking shape through building.
THE PATTERN
Revelation makes divine order visible as a form that can be seen.
And look that thou make them after their pattern, which was shewed thee in the mount.Now it came to pass in the thirtieth year, in the fourth month, in the fifth day of the month, as I was among the captives by the river of Chebar, that the heavens were opened, and I saw visions of God.And he carried me away in the spirit to a great and high mountain, and shewed me that great city, the holy Jerusalem, descending out of heaven from God,THE THREAD
Now it came to pass in the thirtieth year, in the fourth month, in the fifth day of the month, as I was among the captives by the river of Chebar, that the heavens were opened, and I saw visions of God.Ezekiel 1:1 uses the same phrase, “visions of God,” rooted in רָאָה (ra’ah, to see or perceive). There the heavens open; here that seeing places you high above a city whose form can be grasped.
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