What Does Isaiah 63:1 Mean in the King James?
Who is this that cometh from Edom, with dyed garments from Bozrah? this that is glorious in his apparel, travelling in the greatness of his strength? I that speak in righteousness, mighty to save.
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 red-clad figure from Edom names strength by the power to deliver.
THE MEANING
You meet a figure arriving from Edom in red-dyed garments, speaking in alignment and declaring great strength to deliver. The red and the deliverance stand together in the same arrival; power is voiced as the capacity to bring out.
THE ROOT
לְהוֹשִׁיעַ
lehoshia
GROWS FROM
ישע
yasha
Deliver; bring out, from constriction toward spaciousness.
“save” in this verse is lehoshia. The verb frames strength as an action that brings someone out, rather than an abstract force. Its branches keep the act, the deliverance, and the deliverer in one word-family.
ALSO GROWS
moshia: Deliverer
מוֹשִׁיעַ
It makes explicit that the announced power belongs to a deliverer, not merely to a powerful figure.
yeshuah: Deliverance
יְשׁוּעָה
It names as an event what the verse describes as an act.
בִּצְדָקָה
bitsedaqah
GROWS FROM
צדק
tsedeq
Rightness, justice, alignment.
The speaker’s claim is not bare force: speech and power are placed within alignment. This root carries the sense of being set right or in line, alongside the familiar moral sense of righteousness.
ALSO GROWS
tsedeq: Rightness; alignment
צֶדֶק
It shows the underlying quality that shapes the speaker’s words.
tsaddiq: A just or upright person
צַדִּיק
It carries the same root from an abstract quality into a person characterized by it.
אֱדוֹם
Edom
GROWS FROM
אדם
adam
Red; the consonant family also echoes the words for human and ground.
Edom’s name means “red,” and the verse immediately places the arrival in red-dyed garments, reinforcing the name through the image. The shared consonants also echo the human and the ground, giving the scene an earth-colored, embodied register.
ALSO GROWS
adam: Human; ground-being
אָדָם
The familiar name Adam carries this same consonant frame, linking the red-named place with embodied humanity.
adamah: Ground; soil
אֲדָמָה
The soil-word shares the consonants, drawing the earth beneath the red name into view.
THE PATTERN
Deliverance is strength expressed as bringing someone out and opening a way beyond danger.
And Moses said unto the people, Fear ye not, stand still, and see the salvation of the LORD, which he will shew to you to day: for the Egyptians whom ye have seen to day, ye shall see them again no more for ever.He brought me forth also into a large place; he delivered me, because he delighted in me.For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.THE THREAD
Behold, God is my salvation; I will trust, and not be afraid: for the LORD JEHOVAH is my strength and my song; he also is become my salvation.Its יְשׁוּעָה (yeshuah, deliverance), translated “salvation,” shares the root יָשַׁע (yasha, deliver) with “mighty to save” here. Isaiah 12 names that same movement as deliverance and ties it to strength and song.
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