What Does Haggai 2:21 Mean in the King James?
Speak to Zerubbabel, governor of Judah, saying, I will shake the heavens and the earth;
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 shaking reaches both the heavens above and the earth beneath, leaving no layer of the world outside its reach.
THE MEANING
This word meets you where the frame of life feels fixed: the upheaval reaches what seems highest and what seems most solid. Nothing in that whole frame is beyond the shaking named here.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
It undoes the belief that the structures holding your world together are permanent and beyond disturbance.
THE ROOT
מַרְעִישׁ
mar'ish
GROWS FROM
רעש
ra'ash
To shake, quake, or make an uproar.
“shake” in this verse is mar'ish. The same root can name both a quake and its tumult, so the shaking is a world-disordering disturbance, not mere motion. Here its reach spans heaven and earth; the verse leaves no layer exempt.
ALSO GROWS
ra'ash: Quaking, earthquake, or tumult.
רַעַשׁ
This noun shows that the root names the upheaval itself, the disturbance produced when what seemed stable begins to move.
tir'ash: It will quake.
תִּרְעַשׁ
In Isaiah 13:13 the earth itself quakes out of place, giving the same root a picture of ground-level upheaval.
THE PATTERN
The shaking reaches what seems fixed, and reveals what can be removed and what remains.
Therefore I will shake the heavens, and the earth shall remove out of her place, in the wrath of the LORD of hosts, and in the day of his fierce anger.And this word, Yet once more, signifieth the removing of those things that are shaken, as of things that are made, that those things which cannot be shaken may remain.THE THREAD
Therefore I will shake the heavens, and the earth shall remove out of her place, in the wrath of the LORD of hosts, and in the day of his fierce anger.The Hebrew root רעש (ra’ash), meaning to shake or quake, appears here as תִּרְעַשׁ (tir’ash), “shall quake.” Haggai names the shaking of heaven and earth; Isaiah lets you see the earth itself quaking out of place.
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