What Does Ezekiel 7:1 Mean in the King James?
Moreover 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
The Hebrew devar holds “word” and “matter” together, so the LORD’s speech arrives as an encounter with something happening, not as information alone.
THE MEANING
The LORD’s word meets you as an address, and the phrase marks its arrival before the content is even heard. Receiving the word is already an encounter; what follows begins with speech that reaches you personally.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
This undoes the belief that divine speech is only distant information; here, the word comes to a person as a direct encounter.
THE ROOT
דְּבַר
devar
GROWS FROM
דבר
D-B-R
Speak; as a noun, word, matter, or affair.
The Hebrew word devar (דָּבָר, “word” or “matter”) can name both what is spoken and the matter at hand. The LORD’s word, then, is not merely information received; it is speech arriving as something that meets the person addressed.
ALSO GROWS
dābār: Word, matter, or affair.
דָּבָר
The same noun can refer to what is said and to the matter being addressed, joining speech with what is happening.
dibber: Spoke; to speak.
דִּבֵּר
The verb shares the root, showing speech as an act: the word is spoken into the encounter.
THE PATTERN
The word of God meets people as an active address that opens a consequential movement.
After these things the word of the LORD came unto Abram in a vision, saying, Fear not, Abram: I am thy shield, and thy exceeding great reward.Annas and Caiaphas being the high priests, the word of God came unto John the son of Zacharias in the wilderness.For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.THE THREAD
He sent his word, and healed them, and delivered them from their destructions.The same Hebrew noun, davar (דָּבָר, “word” or “matter”), is sent into action here, linked with healing and deliverance. That makes Ezekiel 7:1’s opening feel consequential: the word reaches a person before its particular force unfolds.
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