What Does Ezra 6:19 Mean in the King James?
And the children of the captivity kept the passover upon the fourteenth day of the first month.
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 people named by captivity now keep a feast whose name means passing over.
THE MEANING
The verse holds a people under the name of exile and, in the same sentence, gathers them around Passover. For you now, captivity can name a real condition without becoming the whole identity; the shared act of Passover sets release in the center of communal life. Deliverance is remembered by being enacted together.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
The verse undoes the belief that exile gets the final word over identity: people named by exile gather around deliverance.
THE ROOT
פֶּסַח
pesach
GROWS FROM
פסח
To pass over or spare.
“passover” in this verse is pesach. The name of the feast carries an action: passing over, sparing. The observance makes that act present as something a community does together.
ALSO GROWS
pasach: To pass over, spare.
פָּסַח
The verb carries the movement held inside the feast’s name.
pesach: The Passover rite or feast.
פֶּסַח
The noun gives the act a shared, repeatable form.
גּוֹלָה
golah
GROWS FROM
גלה
To uncover or reveal; in a related form, to go into exile.
“captivity” in this verse is golah. The Hebrew word for exile belongs to the same root family as a verb meaning uncover or reveal. These senses are not identical, but their shared sound lets the verse hold displacement and exposure together in one word-family.
ALSO GROWS
galah: To uncover, reveal.
גָּלָה
This branch gives the exile word an echo of what displacement exposes.
golah: Exile; the exiled community.
גּוֹלָה
This is the word behind the people’s label, placing exile inside the verse even as they gather around Passover.
THE PATTERN
Deliverance becomes communal when a people repeats its sign together.
And the blood shall be to you for a token upon the houses where ye are: and when I see the blood, I will pass over you, and the plague shall not be upon you to destroy you, when I smite the land of Egypt.Observe the month of Abib, and keep the passover unto the LORD thy God: for in the month of Abib the LORD thy God brought thee forth out of Egypt by night.Purge out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, as ye are unleavened. For even Christ our passover is sacrificed for us:THE THREAD
And the blood shall be to you for a token upon the houses where ye are: and when I see the blood, I will pass over you, and the plague shall not be upon you to destroy you, when I smite the land of Egypt.The verb פָּסַח (pāsaḥ, “pass over” or “spare”) is from the same root as פֶּסַח (pesach, “Passover”). Ezra’s verse gathers the community around a name that still carries the act of being spared.
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