What Does Isaiah 47:4 Mean in the King James?
As for our redeemer, the LORD of hosts is his name, the Holy One of Israel.
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 reclaiming us as kin is named the LORD of hosts, joining sovereign power and belonging in one nature.
THE MEANING
Your redeemer is the LORD of hosts: the one who commands the hosts also claims you as kin. His name names his nature, the Holy One of Israel, who reclaims what belongs to him.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
The belief that divine might means distance from you is undone: the redeemer who commands the hosts is also named as Israel’s own.
THE ROOT
גֹּאֲלֵנוּ
go’alenu
GROWS FROM
גאל
ga’al
To reclaim, redeem, or act as kin to restore what has been lost.
The root גאל (ga’al, to reclaim or redeem) presents recovery as a kinsman’s act: what is lost is not discarded but claimed back. “Our redeemer” therefore carries relation and restoration together.
ALSO GROWS
go’el: Kinsman-redeemer; one who reclaims as kin.
גֹּאֵל
It shows that the redeemer’s claim comes through relationship, making rescue an act of restored belonging.
ge’ullah: Redemption or reclamation.
גְּאֻלָּה
It names the recovery itself, so redemption carries the return of what was lost, not only escape from danger.
קְדוֹשׁ
qadosh
GROWS FROM
קדש
qadash
To set apart, distinguish, or consecrate.
The root קדש (qadash, to set apart) gives “Holy One” the sense of one distinct in nature. Paired with “of Israel,” the title places that distinction in relationship with a people, rather than making it only an idea of remote purity.
ALSO GROWS
qodesh: Set-apartness; sacredness.
קֹדֶשׁ
It shows the quality named by the title: the redeemer is distinct in nature.
miqdash: Sanctuary; a set-apart place.
מִקְדָּשׁ
It carries the same root into a place of meeting, connecting set-apartness with nearness.
THE PATTERN
Redemption recovers what is lost through a claim that restores belonging.
If thy brother be waxen poor, and hath sold away some of his possession, and if any of his kin come to redeem it, then shall he redeem that which his brother sold.And the women said unto Naomi, Blessed be the LORD, which hath not left thee this day without a kinsman, that his name may be famous in Israel.To redeem them that were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of sons.THE THREAD
Fear not, thou worm Jacob, and ye men of Israel; I will help thee, saith the LORD, and thy redeemer, the Holy One of Israel.The same Hebrew root גאל (ga’al, to reclaim or redeem) names the redeemer in both verses. Here the title is paired with “I will help thee,” making the kinsman’s claim active help rather than a distant name.
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