What Does Ezra 1:7 Mean in the King James?
Also Cyrus the king brought forth the vessels of the house of the LORD, which Nebuchadnezzar had brought forth out of Jerusalem, and had put them in the house of his gods;
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 same verb marks both the vessels’ removal from Jerusalem and their emergence again, so their displacement is not the final word over where they belong.
THE MEANING
The vessels are moving out of Jerusalem, sitting inside another god’s house, and now being brought out again. Their placement names where they are, while the verse keeps their originating house attached to them. Displacement and recovery appear together.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
This undoes the belief that what is placed in another’s keeping has lost its first belonging for good.
THE ROOT
הוֹצִיא
hotsi
GROWS FROM
יצא
y-ts-ʾ
To go out or emerge; in this causative form, to bring or cause something to come out.
The same form of this root describes Nebuchadnezzar bringing the vessels out of Jerusalem and Cyrus bringing them out again. English repeats “brought forth,” but the Hebrew repetition makes the reversal audible: the vessels’ movement out is not finished with their first removal.
ALSO GROWS
yatsa: To go out, come out, or emerge.
יָצָא
The basic form names the movement itself, which the verse applies first to removal and then to release from the place holding the vessels.
motsa: An exit, outlet, or point of departure.
מוֹצָא
This branch names the passage out, bringing the verse’s focus to a crossing from one domain into another.
וַיִּתְּנֵם
wayittenem
GROWS FROM
נתן
n-t-n
To give, set, or place.
“put” in this verse is wayittenem. The verse says the vessels were set in the house of Nebuchadnezzar’s gods. This root also forms words for giving, so the placement is a transfer into another domain; the repeated verb “bring out” shows that this setting does not settle their belonging.
ALSO GROWS
natan: To give, set, or place.
נָתַן
This is the root’s basic verb and names the act that puts the vessels in the foreign house.
mattanah: A gift or present.
מַתָּנָה
This branch carries the sense of something given or handed over, illuminating how placement can mark transfer without erasing the vessels’ named origin.
THE PATTERN
Being carried away or lost does not erase belonging; the text can name return as restoration.
They shall be carried to Babylon, and there shall they be until the day that I visit them, saith the LORD; then will I bring them up, and restore them to this place.And also let the golden and silver vessels of the house of God, which Nebuchadnezzar took forth out of the temple which is at Jerusalem, and brought unto Babylon, be restored, and brought again unto the temple which is at Jerusalem, every one to his place, and place them in the house of God.For this my son was dead, and is alive again; he was lost, and is found. And they began to be merry.THE THREAD
And they baked unleavened cakes of the dough which they brought forth out of Egypt, for it was not leavened; because they were thrust out of Egypt, and could not tarry, neither had they prepared for themselves any victual.Exodus uses the same Hebrew root יצא (yatsa, go out) in the causative form הוֹצִיאוּ (hotsi’u, they brought out) for what the people carry out of Egypt. Ezra applies that same movement to the vessels: what has been removed from its place can emerge again from the house that holds it.
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