What Does Haggai 2:10 Mean in the King James?

In the four and twentieth day of the ninth month, in the second year of Darius, came the word of the LORD by Haggai the prophet, saying,

Haggai 2:10 · 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.

This verse in the Selah Decoded Version

THE KEY

The Hebrew word translated “word” also means “matter,” so the verse presents divine speech as entering the substance of a real moment.

THE MEANING

This verse meets the reader with speech arriving within time: on a specific day, through a named human voice. Its precise setting makes the word concrete, present in the life actually being lived. The reader encounters divine speech as something that reaches the world through a person.

WHAT THIS UNDOES

It dissolves the idea that the word of God belongs only to a distant, undated past: here, the word arrives in a specific moment.

THE ROOT

דְּבַר

devar

GROWS FROM

דבר

d-b-r

To speak; as a noun, speech or the matter being spoken of.

The same Hebrew form can name a word and a matter or affair, joining what is said to what is at hand. Here, the exact date and named messenger place that speech inside a real moment.

ALSO GROWS

davar: Word; matter; affair.

דָּבָר

The noun can name both what is said and the matter itself, joining speech to lived reality.

dibber: To speak; to declare.

דִּבֵּר

The same consonants name the act of speaking, showing the word arriving through a human voice.

THE PATTERN

The word of the LORD arrives in a particular moment through a named human voice.

To whom the word of the LORD came in the days of Josiah the son of Amon king of Judah, in the thirteenth year of his reign.

Jeremiah 1:2 · KJVThe verse locates the arriving word in a named reign and a specific year.

Annas and Caiaphas being the high priests, the word of God came unto John the son of Zacharias in the wilderness.

Luke 3:2 · KJVThe word reaches a named person in a concrete setting, through whom it enters the world.

In the second year of Darius the king, in the sixth month, in the first day of the month, came the word of the LORD by Haggai the prophet unto Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and to Joshua the son of Josedech, the high priest, saying,

Haggai 1:1 · KJVThe word is placed in an exact day and year, and comes through Haggai to named people.

THE THREAD

By the word of the LORD were the heavens made; and all the host of them by the breath of his mouth.

Psalm 33:6 · KJV

Psalm 33:6 uses the same Hebrew word, ⁨דָּבָר⁩ (davar, word or matter), found in Haggai’s “word of the LORD.” There, the word is tied to the making of the heavens, deepening this verse’s picture of speech arriving as part of the world’s lived reality.

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