What Does Isaiah 62:3 Mean in the King James?
Thou shalt also be a crown of glory in the hand of the LORD, and a royal diadem in the hand of thy God.
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
You are not handed a crown; you are named as the crown in God’s hand.
THE MEANING
Your life is held as a crown of beauty in the LORD’s hand and as a royal headpiece in your God’s hand. The repeated image places splendor and belonging together: you are the adornment of the One who holds you.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
It loosens the belief that your worth begins only when you attain status or become impressive; here, you yourself are named as the crown held by God.
THE ROOT
תִּפְאֶרֶת
tiph'ereth
GROWS FROM
פאר
pa'ar
to beautify, adorn, or make splendid
The word translated as glory carries the sense of beauty and adornment, not only an abstract radiance. Its root family includes a headdress or ornament, so the verse pictures the person held by God as the adornment itself.
ALSO GROWS
pa'ar: to beautify, adorn, or glorify
פָּאַר
This verb shows the active force beneath the image: the crown’s splendor is the language of adornment.
pe'er: headdress or ornament
פְּאֵר
This related word makes the connection between splendor and something worn or displayed; here, the person is that living adornment in God’s hand.
עֲטֶרֶת
ateret
GROWS FROM
עטר
ʿāṭar
to encircle, surround, or crown
The crown word grows from the idea of surrounding or encircling. The verse does not picture honor kept at a distance: the one named as a crown is gathered within the hand that holds them.
ALSO GROWS
ʿāṭar: to surround or crown
עָטַר
The verb carries both the encircling and crowning sense, deepening the image of a person enclosed in God’s regard.
ʿăṭārāh: crown or wreath
עֲטָרָה
This related noun makes the person-as-crown image explicit: the honor is embodied, not merely worn.
THE PATTERN
A crown can be a living relationship made visible as honor, rather than a possession kept apart from others.
A virtuous woman is a crown to her husband: but she that maketh ashamed is as rottenness in his bones.In that day shall the LORD of hosts be for a crown of glory, and for a diadem of beauty, unto the residue of his people,For what is our hope, or joy, or crown of rejoicing? Are not even ye in the presence of our Lord Jesus Christ at his coming?THE THREAD
She shall give to thine head an ornament of grace: a crown of glory shall she deliver to thee.Proverbs uses the same Hebrew phrase, עֲטֶרֶת תִּפְאֶרֶת (ateret tiph’ereth), “a crown of glory,” for what wisdom gives to the head. Isaiah turns that image inward: you are the crown in God’s hand, the adornment itself.
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