What Does Leviticus 12:1 Mean in the King James?
And the LORD spake unto Moses, 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 word arrives as an address to Moses, whose name carries the image of being drawn out.
THE MEANING
The reader meets the beginning of instruction as a voice addressing Moses; what follows opens through speech. Moses’ name carries the image of being drawn out, so the address meets a hearer whose name already holds emergence into open life.
THE ROOT
וַיְדַבֵּר
wayyedabber
GROWS FROM
דבר
To speak; this word family also names a word, matter, or thing.
“spake” in this verse is wayyedabber. The Hebrew word family holds speaking and the matter spoken of together. Here, speech is the doorway into the substance of the instruction that follows.
ALSO GROWS
dābār: Word, matter, or thing.
דָּבָר
The same root connects what is spoken with the matter at hand; the LORD’s speech carries the instruction’s substance.
medabber: Speaking; one who speaks.
מְדַבֵּר
This form keeps the act of speaking visible, showing the instruction beginning as an active address.
מֹשֶׁה
Mōsheh
GROWS FROM
משה
To draw out, as in drawing someone out of water.
Moses’ name is explained through מָשָׁה, “to draw out”: his name remembers being drawn from water. The word is addressed to someone whose name already carries the movement from being held to being brought out.
ALSO GROWS
māshāh: To draw out.
מָשָׁה
This verb supplies the name’s scriptural explanation and gives Moses’ presence in the verse a meaning beyond a label.
Mōsheh: Moses, whose name is linked to being drawn out.
מֹשֶׁה
The name preserves the act of drawing out in the person receiving the word.
THE PATTERN
God’s speech is a living address whose word carries the matter it sets before the hearer.
And the LORD said unto Moses, Come up to me into the mount, and be there: and I will give thee tables of stone, and a law, and commandments which I have written; that thou mayest teach them.So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it.My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me:THE THREAD
And the child grew, and she brought him unto Pharaoh’s daughter, and he became her son. And she called his name Moses: and she said, Because I drew him out of the water.Exodus explains Moses’ name through מָשָׁה (māshāh), “to draw out.” Here, the LORD’s speech is addressed to Moses, so the word reaches someone whose name remembers being drawn out of the water.
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