What Does Haggai 1:3 Mean in the King James?

Then came the word of the LORD by Haggai the prophet, saying,

Haggai 1:3 · 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 verse names both the word’s source and its human bearer, so a human voice does not make the message merely human.

THE MEANING

The LORD’s word comes through a human voice, with Haggai named as its bearer. Its source is the LORD, while its speech takes form through a person. The verse holds source and channel together as the message arrives.

WHAT THIS UNDOES

A message carried by a human voice does not have to originate with that person; the verse names the LORD as its source and Haggai as its bearer.

THE ROOT

דְּבַר

devar

GROWS FROM

דבר

To speak; as a noun, a word, matter, or thing.

Davar can name both an utterance and the matter it carries, so the word here has substance, not just sound. The verse holds its source, “of the LORD,” together with its human bearer, “by Haggai.”

ALSO GROWS

dibber: He spoke.

דִּבֵּר

The spoken word comes through Haggai, while the verse identifies the LORD as its source.

devarim: Words, matters, or things.

דְּבָרִים

This branch shows the word as meaningful content carried into speech.

THE PATTERN

The divine word becomes audible through a human bearer without making that bearer its source.

Then the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,

Jeremiah 1:4 · KJVThe same word-arrival is named, with a human voice receiving what comes from the LORD.

Believest thou not that I am in the Father, and the Father in me? the words that I speak unto you I speak not of myself: but the Father that dwelleth in me, he doeth the works.

John 14:10 · KJVThe speaker distinguishes the words he voices from their source, holding human speech and divine origin together.

For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man: but holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost.

2 Peter 1:21 · KJVHuman beings speak, while the verse locates the prophecy’s impulse beyond their own will.

THE THREAD

Then the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,

Jeremiah 1:4 · KJV

Jeremiah uses the same davar (⁨דָּבָר⁩, davar: word, matter) for the word that comes from the LORD. Haggai’s verse makes the human channel explicit by naming him as the one through whom it comes.

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