What Does Leviticus 25:1 Mean in the King James?
And the LORD spake unto Moses in mount Sinai, 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 “drawn-out one” receives what he did not author: the verse reveals the source of instruction before its content.
THE MEANING
The word reaches the reader with its source named as the LORD, before its details unfold. Moses’ name echoes being drawn out, placing reception beside the image of being brought forth.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
The belief that meaningful instruction must be self-generated gives way here: the word comes from beyond its receiver.
THE ROOT
וַיְדַבֵּר
vay·dabber
GROWS FROM
דבר
d-b-r
To speak; the related noun דָּבָר (davar) means word, matter, or thing.
“spake” in this verse is vay·dabber. English can make speaking sound like a passing sound, but this root also names a word or a matter. The LORD’s speech is presented as something substantive that reaches Moses before its details are given.
ALSO GROWS
davar: Word, matter, or thing
דָּבָר
The spoken word is also a matter presented to its receiver.
medabber: One who speaks
מְדַבֵּר
This form keeps the speaker visible in the action: the verse names who initiates the word.
מֹשֶׁה
Mosheh
GROWS FROM
משׁה
m-sh-h
To draw out; Exodus 2:10 connects the name Moses with being drawn out of water.
Moses’ name carries the image of being drawn out. Here that name stands beside receiving speech, so being brought forth and receiving what is spoken meet in one figure.
ALSO GROWS
mashah: To draw out
מָשָׁה
This verb is the name’s root echo and supplies the image of emergence.
Mosheh: Moses, linked in Exodus 2:10 to “I drew him out”
מֹשֶׁה
The name makes the receiver’s own story of being drawn out part of the verse’s texture.
THE PATTERN
What is to be received or seen begins in a word from God.
And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.And God spake all these words, saying,In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.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 2:10 gives the name’s own wordplay: Moses is linked with מָשָׁה (mashah), “to draw out.” In Leviticus, the one marked by being drawn out receives the LORD’s speech.
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