What Does Isaiah 7:14 Mean in the King James?
Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign; Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel.
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 child’s name is the sign’s meaning spoken plainly: God with us.
THE MEANING
The Lord gives a sign, and the child’s name speaks its meaning: God with us. This promise meets you now as presence taking form in a life. Immanuel names the reality that surrounds the moment you are reading this.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
The belief that God is absent from the moment in front of you meets the name Immanuel: “God with us.”
THE ROOT
וְקָרָאת שְׁמוֹ
veqara't shemo
GROWS FROM
ק־ר־א
Call out, proclaim, summon, or name; in other forms, read.
“shall call his name” in this verse is veqara't shemo. The verb for naming is qara, a call or proclamation; the phrase frames the name as something spoken into the open. Immanuel (עִמָּנוּאֵל, Immanu’el) is the proclamation’s content, “with us is God”, so the sign bears its meaning in the child’s name.
ALSO GROWS
miqra: Reading, proclamation, or assembly.
מִקְרָא
This branch shows how a call can become a shared declaration, as the child’s name makes the sign’s meaning heard.
qeri'ah: A call, reading, or summons.
קְרִיאָה
The name is called aloud as a declaration of the presence it names.
וְיֹלֶדֶת
veyoledet
GROWS FROM
י־ל־ד
Beget, bear, or give birth.
“bear” in this verse is veyoledet. This root links bearing a child with the child and with generations. The sign therefore carries its declaration forward through a life that begins here.
ALSO GROWS
yeled: Child.
יֶלֶד
The root joins the act of birth directly to the child who bears the name Immanuel.
toledot: Generations or genealogies.
תּוֹלְדוֹת
This branch opens the birth into a continuing line, carrying the name’s declaration into what follows.
THE PATTERN
A name can announce divine presence as the defining reality of a life and moment.
And, behold, I am with thee, and will keep thee in all places whither thou goest, and will bring thee again into this land; for I will not leave thee, until I have done that which I have spoken to thee of.Take counsel together, and it shall come to nought; speak the word, and it shall not stand: for God is with us.Behold, a virgin shall be with child, and shall bring forth a son, and they shall call his name Emmanuel, which being interpreted is, God with us.THE THREAD
Take counsel together, and it shall come to nought; speak the word, and it shall not stand: for God is with us.Isaiah 8:10 speaks the name Immanuel as the plain sentence “God is with us.” The repeated name lets you hear the sign’s content: presence remains its message even amid threat.
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