What Does Ezra 6:15 Mean in the King James?
And this house was finished on the third day of the month Adar, which was in the sixth year of the reign of Darius the king.
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 finished house is located in two kinds of time at once: the moon’s returning month and a king’s numbered reign.
THE MEANING
A meaningful work can come to completion inside the cycles and power already surrounding you. Its completion has a day, a month, and a year; the world around it continues moving.
THE ROOT
יְרַח
yeraḥ
GROWS FROM
ירח
y-r-ḥ
Moon; the cycle of a lunar month.
The Aramaic word for month shares its root with the Hebrew word for moon, so the date is more than an abstract number: it is marked by a returning cycle. The house’s completion is located within that recurring time.
ALSO GROWS
yareach: Moon.
יָרֵחַ
The Hebrew word for moon reveals the lunar connection held within the Aramaic word for month.
yeraḥ: Month.
יֶרַח
This Hebrew form preserves the same link between a month and the moon’s recurring cycle.
מַלְכוּת
malkut
GROWS FROM
מלך
m-l-k
To rule or reign as king.
The Aramaic words for “reign” and “king” share one root, tying the date to the human authority in power. The house reaches completion within that measured span of rule.
ALSO GROWS
melekh: King.
מֶלֶךְ
The verse names the king whose reign frames the year of completion.
malkut: Reign or kingdom.
מַלְכוּת
This is the word-family form that places the house’s completion within a span of royal rule.
THE PATTERN
A dwelling set apart for God takes shape through human hands and reaches a real point of completion.
And he reared up the court round about the tabernacle and the altar, and set up the hanging of the court gate. So Moses finished the work.The hands of Zerubbabel have laid the foundation of this house; his hands shall also finish it; and thou shalt know that the LORD of hosts hath sent me unto you.For we are labourers together with God: ye are God’s husbandry, ye are God’s building.THE THREAD
He appointed the moon for seasons: the sun knoweth his going down.Psalm 104:19 makes the lunar measure of time explicit. Ezra’s Aramaic word for month, יְרַח (yeraḥ), shares the root ירח (y-r-ḥ) with the Hebrew word for moon, יָרֵחַ (yareach), placing the house’s completion within a returning cycle of light.
Read the SDV Bible.
Every verse has a Deep Dive in the app.
The iPhone Bible app with the Selah Decoded Version.
Does something in this reading look wrong? Tell us