What Does Haggai 1:15 Mean in the King James?

In the four and twentieth day of the sixth month, in the second year of Darius the king.

Haggai 1:15 · KJV

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 word for “month” grows from the Hebrew for “new,” placing this dated moment inside a recurring cycle of renewal.

THE MEANING

This verse sets a precise day inside a numbered month and year. Its calendar marker gives the surrounding work a place where it can be remembered and measured.

THE ROOT

חֹדֶשׁ

chodesh

GROWS FROM

חדש

ḥ-d-sh

new; renew

Hebrew chodesh (“month”) belongs to chadash (“new”), and a month is counted by the moon’s return. The date therefore carries both chronology and renewal: the work is situated within a cycle that begins again.

ALSO GROWS

chadash: new

חָדָשׁ

The root of the calendar word is also the ordinary word for new, so “sixth month” echoes a new cycle.

chiddesh: renew; make new

חִדֵּשׁ

This renewal verb lets the month resonate with the rebuilding named in the preceding verse: the work takes place within a word-family of newness.

THE PATTERN

A marked time gives a turning point a place in the world.

This month shall be unto you the beginning of months: it shall be the first month of the year to you.

Exodus 12:2 · KJVThe month itself is named as a beginning, making the calendar marker part of the transition.

To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven:

Ecclesiastes 3:1 · KJVTime is presented as having a place for each purpose, the same structure by which this verse gives a moment its date.

But when the fulness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the law,

Galatians 4:4 · KJVThe phrase “fulness of the time” locates a turning at a particular moment, as this dated verse locates its surrounding work.

THE THREAD

And the LORD stirred up the spirit of Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and the spirit of Joshua the son of Josedech, the high priest, and the spirit of all the remnant of the people; and they came and did work in the house of the LORD of hosts, their God,

Haggai 1:14 · KJV

The preceding verse names the stirring and the work; this one pins that work to a day. Together, they show inward movement taking a definite place in time.

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