What Does Ezekiel 48:35 Mean in the King James?
It was round about eighteen thousand measures: and the name of the city from that day shall be, The LORD is there.
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 city’s “name” (shem) and “there” (sham) share the Hebrew consonants ש־מ, making its name a declaration of the LORD’s presence.
THE MEANING
The city’s deepest identity is the LORD’s presence: the LORD is there. Its measurements mark its bounds, but its name tells what makes it the city. The verse speaks now as a declaration that divine nearness can define a place more deeply than its dimensions do.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
This undoes the belief that a sacred place is defined only by its boundaries or grandeur; its defining truth is who is there.
THE ROOT
שֵׁם
shem
GROWS FROM
שם
The consonants ש־מ appear in שֵׁם (shem, name) and שָׁם (sham, there). These are distinct words, not a proven shared three-letter root.
“name / there” in this verse is shem. The verse places the city’s shem, its name, beside YHWH shammah, “the LORD is there.” Their shared consonants make identity and location echo together: the name does not merely label the city; it declares the presence that defines it.
ALSO GROWS
shem: Name; identity or nature carried by a name.
שֵׁם
It appears in “the name of the city,” setting up the consonant echo with “there.”
sham: There; at that place.
שָׁם
Its consonants match שֵׁם (shem), linking the city’s name with the place of the LORD’s presence.
shammah: There; the form used in the city’s name, YHWH Shammah.
שָׁמָּה
It makes the city’s announced identity a statement of where the LORD is: there.
THE PATTERN
The LORD’s presence gives a place its defining identity.
And he said, My presence shall go with thee, and I will give thee rest.God is in the midst of her; she shall not be moved: God shall help her, and that right early.Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world. Amen.THE THREAD
Behold, a virgin shall be with child, and shall bring forth a son, and they shall call his name Emmanuel, which being interpreted is, God with us.Ezekiel’s city carries its defining truth in its name: the LORD is there. Emmanuel also interprets a name as a declaration of presence, God with us, showing how a name can reveal the nature of what it names.
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