What Does Isaiah 33:6 Mean in the King James?

And wisdom and knowledge shall be the stability of thy times, and strength of salvation: the fear of the LORD is his treasure.

Isaiah 33:6 · KJV

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King James Version The King James Version, first published in 1611. Selah Verse shows the standard text.

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THE KEY

The word translated “stability” is ⁨אֱמוּנָה⁩ (emunah), from the same root as “believe” and “be established”: steadiness is trust taking form.

THE MEANING

Wisdom and knowledge hold your times steady from within their change; they are strength for the deliverances opening before you now. Awe of the LORD is the treasure at the heart of that steadiness.

WHAT THIS UNDOES

It undoes the belief that stability requires an unchanging life: the verse locates steadiness in wisdom and trust, even as your times move.

THE ROOT

אֱמוּנַת

emunat

GROWS FROM

אמן

To be firm, reliable, or supportive; the root carries the sense of trust and steadiness.

The Hebrew word for “stability” grows from the same root as words rendered “believe” and “be established.” What English separates into inner belief and outer firmness, the root holds together: trust is a way of becoming steady.

ALSO GROWS

aman: Be firm; support; trust.

אָמַן

This verb shows the active side of stability: firmness is something trust makes possible.

emunah: Firmness, steadfastness, trust.

אֱמוּנָה

This is the form behind “stability” here, revealing trust as the steadiness of your times.

amen: Truly; affirmed.

אָמֵן

The familiar affirmation shares the root’s sense of something held firm and confirmed.

יְשׁוּעוֹת

yeshuot

GROWS FROM

ישע

To deliver or bring into spaciousness.

The Hebrew has “deliverances,” plural, where the English gives “salvation.” The root gives deliverance a movement: strength for being brought out of constriction into room, alongside the firmness that steadies your times.

ALSO GROWS

yasha: Deliver; bring into spaciousness.

יָשַׁע

The verb names the movement that the “strength of salvation” serves.

yeshuah: Deliverance.

יְשׁוּעָה

This form makes explicit that the verse speaks of deliverance as something received and entered.

moshia: Deliverer.

מוֹשִׁיעַ

This branch names the one who brings deliverance about, linking the verse’s strength to the act of being brought out.

THE PATTERN

The firmness of trust steadies a person through changing times and opens the way for deliverance.

And the head of Ephraim is Samaria, and the head of Samaria is Remaliah’s son. If ye will not believe, surely ye shall not be established.

Isaiah 7:9 · KJV“Believe” and “be established” share the Hebrew root ⁨אמן⁩ (aman), joining trust and steadiness in one word-family.

And he believed in the LORD; and he counted it to him for righteousness.

Genesis 15:6 · KJVThe act rendered “believed” comes from ⁨אמן⁩ (aman), the same root that gives Isaiah its word for stability.

He shall not be afraid of evil tidings: his heart is fixed, trusting in the LORD.

Psalm 112:7 · KJVA fixed heart and trust in the LORD appear together as the inward steadiness that holds through uncertain times.

THE THREAD

And the head of Ephraim is Samaria, and the head of Samaria is Remaliah’s son. If ye will not believe, surely ye shall not be established.

Isaiah 7:9 · KJV

Isaiah 33:6 uses ⁨אֱמוּנָה⁩ (emunah) for “stability,” while this verse uses forms of ⁨אמן⁩ (aman) for both “believe” and “be established.” The Hebrew root joins what English can make sound like two separate things: trust is the ground of steadiness.

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