What Does Ezekiel 8:4 Mean in the King James?
And, behold, the glory of the God of Israel was there, according to the vision that I saw in the plain.
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
What the verse calls “glory” is God’s weight, present in the valley and recognized through sight.
THE MEANING
God’s weight is there, and what is seen accords with the vision already given in the valley. The place does not create that presence; even the open ground becomes a place where it is recognized.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
God’s presence is confined to places already marked as sacred.
THE ROOT
כָּבוֹד
kavod
GROWS FROM
כבד
k-b-d
To be heavy, weighty, or significant.
The word translated “glory” carries the root sense of weight. Its branches connect that weight with honor: God’s presence is not only seen but recognized as carrying significance.
ALSO GROWS
kaved: Heavy, weighty.
כָּבֵד
This adjective makes the sense of weight within “glory” audible.
kibbed: To honor, treat as weighty.
כִּבֵּד
The same root links weight with the recognition and esteem given to what matters.
מַרְאֶה
mar'eh
GROWS FROM
ראה
ra'ah
To see, look at, or perceive.
“Vision” and “I saw” share the same seeing-root in this verse. The wording binds the appearance to the act of seeing it, keeping the vision tied to perception.
ALSO GROWS
ra'ah: To see, look at.
רָאָה
The verse uses this verb in “I saw,” echoing the root of “vision.”
mar'eh: Sight, appearance, vision.
מַרְאֶה
This branch names what is seen, tying the vision to an appearance.
בִּקְעָה
biq'ah
GROWS FROM
בקע
b-q-ʿ
To split, cleave, or break open.
The word for valley or plain is related to a root meaning to split or cleave. It can evoke open ground shaped as a break in the land, where the vision is seen.
ALSO GROWS
baqa: To split, cleave, break open.
בָּקַע
The verb gives the landscape word its association with opened or cleft ground.
vayyibbaq'u: And they were split open.
וַיִּבָּקְעוּ
This form is used of the waters dividing; it shows the same root’s sense of a passage opening.
THE PATTERN
God’s presence is recognized by its weight appearing across places, so no single setting owns it.
Then a cloud covered the tent of the congregation, and the glory of the LORD filled the tabernacle.To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David. The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament sheweth his handywork.And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.THE THREAD
Then I arose, and went forth into the plain: and, behold, the glory of the LORD stood there, as the glory which I saw by the river of Chebar: and I fell on my face.Ezekiel 3:23 uses the same Hebrew word כָּבוֹד (kavod, weight/glory) and places it in the same plain. The repeated word and setting show God’s weight being recognized there across the visions.
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