What Does Haggai 2:6 Mean in the King James?
For thus saith the LORD of hosts; Yet once, it is a little while, and I will shake the heavens, and the earth, and the sea, and the dry land;
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 Hebrew says the LORD is the one causing the whole created world to tremble, down to its waters and dry ground.
THE MEANING
The LORD of hosts declares a shaking that reaches the heavens, the earth, the sea, and the dry land, the whole field of what seems stable. The verse speaks to you now through that total scope: no layer of your world is beyond the reach of this shaking.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
What feels solid is not necessarily permanent or beyond being shaken.
THE ROOT
מַרְעִישׁ
mar'ish
GROWS FROM
ר־ע־שׁ
r-ʿ-sh
To quake, tremble, or roar; in this verb form, to cause something to quake.
“shake” in this verse is mar'ish. The verb carries the root רעש, the movement of a quake, and its causative form makes the LORD the one producing the trembling. The same root can name both an earthquake and the shaking of everything caught in it, giving this verse the force of a disturbance that reaches the whole created field.
ALSO GROWS
ra'ash: Earthquake, shaking, or tumult.
רַעַשׁ
In 1 Kings 19:11, the word names the earthquake; the branch shows that the root can name the upheaval itself, not only the act of shaking.
vera'ashu: And they shall shake.
וְרָעֲשׁוּ
In Ezekiel 38:20, the sea creatures, birds, beasts, and people shake before the upheaval, showing the root’s reach across the living world.
THE PATTERN
When the LORD shakes what appears fixed, what can be removed gives way and what cannot be shaken 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.Whose voice then shook the earth: but now he hath promised, saying, Yet once more I shake not the earth only, but also heaven.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
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.This verse names what the shaking does: what is made and removable gives way, while what cannot be shaken remains. Haggai’s list of heavens, earth, sea, and dry land shows the scope of the shaking; Hebrews reveals the distinction it brings into view.
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