What Does Leviticus 6:8 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 voice addresses the one “drawn out,” making Moses’ name a hidden preface to the instruction that follows.
THE MEANING
The LORD speaks to Moses, whose name carries the meaning “drawn out,” and begins a saying whose content unfolds beyond this line. The reader meets the moment when a word is addressed to a particular life before its full shape is visible.
THE ROOT
וַיְדַבֵּר
wayyedabber
GROWS FROM
דבר
D-B-R
To speak or declare; the word-family also names a word or matter.
“spake” in this verse is wayyedabber. The root connects speaking with דָּבָר (davar, “word” or “matter”): what is spoken is already a matter taking shape. Here speech opens an address, and the saying that follows begins to unfold its content.
ALSO GROWS
davar: Word, matter, or thing
דָּבָר
This branch shows that speech and the matter spoken share one root.
medabber: Speaking; one who speaks
מְדַבֵּר
This form names the speaker through the act of speaking, which is exactly how the verse presents the LORD addressing Moses.
מֹשֶׁה
Mosheh
GROWS FROM
משה
M-SH-H
To draw out, especially from water.
The name Moses carries the act of being drawn out. The verse addresses someone whose name already holds a movement from water into life, so the instruction comes to a person marked by that passage.
ALSO GROWS
mashah: To draw out
מָשָׁה
This verb gives the name Moses its meaning: the act of drawing out is held inside the name.
meshitihu: I drew him out
מְשִׁיתִהוּ
This form appears in Exodus 2:10, where Moses’ name is explained through the act of drawing him out of the water.
THE PATTERN
The divine voice reaches a particular hearer through direct address.
And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,And the LORD came, and stood, and called as at other times, Samuel, Samuel. Then Samuel answered, Speak; for thy servant heareth.And he fell to the earth, and heard a voice saying unto him, Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou 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.Here the name מֹשֶׁה (Mosheh, “Moses”) is linked with מְשִׁיתִהוּ (meshitihu, “I drew him out”). Leviticus addresses that same “drawn-out” one, so his name carries a remembered passage through water into the present word.
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