What Does Haggai 2:2 Mean in the King James?
Speak now to Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and to Joshua the son of Josedech, the high priest, and to the residue of the people, saying,
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
A governor, a high priest, and the people who remain all receive the same word, so the remnant stands inside the address.
THE MEANING
This word reaches you whether your place is public leadership, sacred service, or simply among the people still here. The people who remain are named alongside the governor and the high priest, fully inside the address. The high priest’s name, Yehoshua (יְהוֹשֻׁעַ, YHWH is deliverance), carries deliverance into the list of those addressed.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
This verse undoes the belief that the people who remain are merely background to the leaders: it names them as direct recipients of the word.
THE ROOT
שְׁאֵרִית
she'erit
GROWS FROM
שאר
sha'ar
Remain, be left, or be left over.
English “residue” can sound like debris, but שאר (sha’ar, remain or be left over) names what continues to be present after something is gone. The people who remain are not an afterthought here; the same address that reaches governor and priest reaches them too.
ALSO GROWS
sha'ar: Remain, be left over.
שָׁאַר
The verb behind “residue” shows that the word describes people still present.
she'ar: Remainder, rest.
שְׁאָר
This related noun shows how the same root names both what remains and the people who make up that remainder.
דַּבֵּר
dabbēr
GROWS FROM
דבר
dābar
Speak; word or matter.
“Speak” in this verse is dabbēr. The verb for speaking shares its root with דָּבָר (davar, word or matter). Speech here gathers people with different roles around the same message.
ALSO GROWS
davar: Word, matter, or thing.
דָּבָר
The same root names both the speaking and what is spoken.
dibbur: Speech or utterance.
דִּבּוּר
This branch keeps the focus on speech as the act that carries the address to each named group.
יְהוֹשֻׁעַ
Yehoshua
GROWS FROM
ישע
yasha
Deliver, bring out from constriction into spaciousness; Yehoshua joins this root to the divine name.
“Joshua” in this verse is Yehoshua. Yehoshua means “YHWH is deliverance,” carrying the nature of deliverance in the high priest’s name. The verse places that name among those reached by the word.
ALSO GROWS
yasha: Deliver or bring out.
יָשַׁע
The verb gives the deliverance-root carried in Yehoshua’s name.
yeshuah: Deliverance.
יְשׁוּעָה
This noun names the deliverance held inside the high priest’s name.
THE PATTERN
God’s address includes those who remain, and their presence carries the work forward.
Yet now be strong, O Zerubbabel, saith the LORD; and be strong, O Joshua, son of Josedech, the high priest; and be strong, all ye people of the land, saith the LORD, and work: for I am with you, saith the LORD of hosts:The remnant shall return, even the remnant of Jacob, unto the mighty God.Even so then at this present time also there is a remnant according to the election of grace.THE THREAD
The remnant shall return, even the remnant of Jacob, unto the mighty God.The Hebrew for “remnant” in both verses comes from שאר (sha’ar, remain or be left over), joining Haggai’s addressed people with Isaiah’s remnant. What remains can still move toward return.
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