What Does Isaiah 7:10 Mean in the King James?
Moreover the LORD spake again unto Ahaz, saying,
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 Hebrew word behind “again” means “add,” so the LORD’s next speech is another utterance added to what came before.
THE MEANING
You encounter speech that continues: what has already been said does not exhaust the speaking. The next utterance is added and directed to a particular person by name.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
This undoes the belief that a prior word must be the final word: here, the LORD adds speech.
THE ROOT
וַיּוֹסֶף
wayyoseph
GROWS FROM
יסף
יסף (yasaph): add, increase, continue
The Hebrew phrase holds both senses together: to speak again is to add speech. What English renders as repetition also carries the sense of a new utterance added to what came before.
ALSO GROWS
vattosef: she added; again
וַתֹּסֶף
In Genesis 4:2, this same root describes another birth, showing how “again” can carry the sense of an additional event.
yosif: he adds; increases
יוֹסִיף
Ecclesiastes 1:18 uses this form for increasing knowledge, showing the root’s sense of something accumulating.
THE PATTERN
Scripture can mark what happens again as an addition to what came before, continuing the action with new content.
And she again bare his brother Abel. And Abel was a keeper of sheep, but Cain was a tiller of the ground.The LORD spake also unto me again, saying,And again he sent another servant: and they beat him also, and entreated him shamefully, and sent him away empty.THE THREAD
The LORD spake also unto me again, saying,Isaiah 8:5 uses the same Hebrew form וַיֹּסֶף (wayyoseph, “he added”) before another utterance. The shared root makes the hidden sense clear: speech that comes again is speech added to what came before.
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