What Does Joshua 5:9 Mean in the King James?

And the LORD said unto Joshua, This day have I rolled away the reproach of Egypt from off you. Wherefore the name of the place is called Gilgal unto this day.

Joshua 5:9 · KJV

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King James Version The King James Version, first published in 1611. Selah Verse shows the standard text.

This verse in the Selah Decoded Version

THE KEY

What is rolled off you gives its name to the place where you stand.

THE MEANING

The LORD names a change taking place in you now: the reproach attached to constriction is rolled away. What marked a former confinement no longer defines your standing; Gilgal keeps that release visible.

WHAT THIS UNDOES

It undoes the belief that a past season of constriction gets to remain your name.

THE ROOT

גַּלּוֹתִי

galloti

GROWS FROM

גלל

gll

To roll, roll away, or roll together.

The Hebrew says the LORD has rolled the reproach from off you. Gilgal repeats the same ⁨גלל⁩ seed, so the place itself carries the verb: shame is not merely declared gone but pictured as something rolled away.

ALSO GROWS

galal: To roll or roll away.

גָּלַל

This is the root action named in the verse: the reproach is rolled from off you.

megillah: Scroll; a rolled document.

מְגִלָּה

The scroll carries the same image of something rolled, making the root’s physical action visible in another form.

Gilgal: Gilgal; a place-name associated with rolling.

גִּלְגָּל

The place-name echoes the action, so the release is carried in the name of the place.

THE PATTERN

The LORD removes reproach that once marked a person, making its removal part of their story.

And she conceived, and bare a son; and said, God hath taken away my reproach:

Genesis 30:23 · KJVThe speaker names reproach as something God has taken away, just as this verse names shame as rolled off.

He will swallow up death in victory; and the Lord GOD will wipe away tears from off all faces; and the rebuke of his people shall he take away from off all the earth: for the LORD hath spoken it.

Isaiah 25:8 · KJVThe rebuke that weighs on a people is removed, and tears are wiped away along with it.

Thus hath the Lord dealt with me in the days wherein he looked on me, to take away my reproach among men.

Luke 1:25 · KJVThe speaker describes reproach being taken away, echoing the present verse’s release from a shaming mark.

THE THREAD

Commit thy way unto the LORD; trust also in him; and he shall bring it to pass.

Psalm 37:5 · KJV

The Hebrew verb ⁨גּוֹל⁩ (gol), meaning “roll,” is from ⁨גלל⁩, the same root as “rolled” here and the name Gilgal. Joshua shows reproach rolled off you; the psalm shows your way rolled upon the LORD, two directions of one movement.

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