What Does Ezekiel 5:5 Mean in the King James?

Thus saith the Lord GOD; This is Jerusalem: I have set it in the midst of the nations and countries that are round about her.

Ezekiel 5:5 · KJV

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King James Version The King James Version, first published in 1611. Selah Verse shows the standard text.

This verse in the Selah Decoded Version

THE KEY

Jerusalem’s name carries wholeness, and the verse places that wholeness in the middle of the peoples around it.

THE MEANING

You are placed within the human world around you, not beyond it. Jerusalem’s name carries the language of wholeness, while its position among nations makes that nature publicly situated. What stands in the center is seen in relation to all around it.

THE ROOT

יְרוּשָׁלַם

Yerushalayim

GROWS FROM

שׁלם

sh-l-m

To be whole, complete, or intact; wholeness.

“Jerusalem” in this verse is Yerushalayim. The place-name carries ⁨שׁלם⁩, the language of wholeness and completion. Here, that name stands among surrounding nations: wholeness is named at a shared center, rather than as an isolated realm.

ALSO GROWS

shalom: Wholeness, well-being.

שָׁלוֹם

This branch lets the verse’s geographic center carry the language of wholeness in Jerusalem’s name.

shalem: Whole, complete, intact.

שָׁלֵם

It brings out the root’s sense of an undivided condition within the name.

shillem: To repay, recompense, or make good.

שִׁלֵּם

This branch carries a sense of making complete, adding depth to the wholeness held in the city’s name.

THE PATTERN

What is placed among peoples becomes visible and consequential to the peoples around it.

And it shall come to pass in the last days, that the mountain of the LORD’s house shall be established in the top of the mountains, and shall be exalted above the hills; and all nations shall flow unto it.

Isaiah 2:2 · KJVA raised center becomes a place toward which the nations gather.

Ye are the light of the world. A city that is set on an hill cannot be hid.

Matthew 5:14 · KJVA city set in a visible place is seen by the world around it.

For so hath the Lord commanded us, saying, I have set thee to be a light of the Gentiles, that thou shouldest be for salvation unto the ends of the earth.

Acts 13:47 · KJVBeing set among the peoples gives a life a visible reach to the ends of the earth.

THE THREAD

For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace.

Isaiah 9:6 · KJV

“Peace” here is ⁨שָׁלוֹם⁩ (shalom), sharing the root ⁨שׁלם⁩ carried in Jerusalem’s name. The connection ties the city placed among nations to a rule named through wholeness.

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