What Does Judges 6:7 Mean in the King James?
And it came to pass, when the children of Israel cried unto the LORD because of the Midianites,
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
What constriction tries to keep silent becomes a direct address to the LORD.
THE MEANING
The pressure is still real when the people cry to the LORD; the verse gives their distress a voice and a direction. A cry does not pretend the trouble is gone: it brings the trouble into address.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
It undoes the belief that a cry only matters after the pressure has passed; here the cry rises from within the trouble.
THE ROOT
זָעֲקוּ
za'aqu
GROWS FROM
זעק
to cry out; make an urgent cry
The Hebrew verb shares its consonants with זְעָקָה, the word for a cry or outcry. English gives the act as “cried,” while the root family holds the act and the voiced appeal together: distress is made audible and addressed.
ALSO GROWS
ze'aqah: cry, outcry
זְעָקָה
The noun from the same root names the voiced appeal contained in the act of crying.
yiz'aq: he cries out
יִזְעַק
This verb form carries the same root into an ongoing cry, showing the shared seed across forms.
THE PATTERN
Pressure does not stay mute: it becomes a cry directed toward God.
And it came to pass in process of time, that the king of Egypt died: and the children of Israel sighed by reason of the bondage, and they cried, and their cry came up unto God by reason of the bondage.Then they cried unto the LORD in their trouble, and he delivered them out of their distresses.And when he heard that it was Jesus of Nazareth, he began to cry out, and say, Jesus, thou Son of David, have mercy on me.THE THREAD
And it came to pass in process of time, that the king of Egypt died: and the children of Israel sighed by reason of the bondage, and they cried, and their cry came up unto God by reason of the bondage.Exodus 2:23 uses the same root, זעק, for “they cried,” then says the cry comes up to God. That shared seed opens Judges’ brief clause: pressure becomes a voiced address, even before the answer is described.
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