What Does Isaiah 43:7 Mean in the King James?
Even every one that is called by my name: for I have created him for my glory, I have formed him; yea, I have made him.
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 one called by God’s nature is formed to make God’s weight known.
THE MEANING
Being called by God’s name means your identity is bound to God’s nature, not merely to a label. Your life is formed and made with the purpose of making God’s weight known through you; the three verbs describe a whole act of shaping.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
This undoes the belief that your identity is an empty label or that your life has no purpose beyond itself: the verse joins God’s naming, forming, and purpose in one claim.
THE ROOT
כָּבוֹד
kavod
GROWS FROM
כבד
To be heavy or weighty; from this comes the sense of honor.
Kavod grows from the root of heaviness: the glory for which you are made carries the sense of God’s weight or substance, not merely visible brilliance. Beside “called by my name,” the verse joins identity in God’s nature to a life that bears God’s weight.
ALSO GROWS
kaved: Heavy, weighty.
כָּבֵד
It makes the weight within “glory” audible: what the verse names as your purpose has substance.
kibbed: To honor or treat as weighty.
כִּבֵּד
It shows how weight becomes honor, linking God’s weight with the way God’s nature is recognized.
יָצַר
yatsar
GROWS FROM
יצר
To form, fashion, or shape.
Yatsar is a potter’s word: the same root names the former and the formed inclination. “Formed” opens beyond a finished shape to include the shaping itself and the inward direction that takes shape within you.
ALSO GROWS
yotser: Former, potter.
יֹצֵר
It reveals the maker behind the forming: the verse’s shaping is the work of a former.
yetser: Inclination, inward impulse.
יֵצֶר
It connects outward formation with what is shaped within, showing that the forming reaches beyond appearance.
THE PATTERN
God’s forming gives a person both a belonging and a purpose.
So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.Know ye that the LORD he is God: it is he that hath made us, and not we ourselves; we are his people, and the sheep of his pasture.For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them.THE THREAD
But now, O LORD, thou art our father; we are the clay, and thou our potter; and we all are the work of thy hand.Isaiah uses the same root, יצר (yatsar, to form), when it names God as potter and people as clay. That image opens “I have formed him” as shaping by the maker’s hand, while Isaiah 43:7 names the nature and purpose carried by that shaping.
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