What Does Leviticus 7:22 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 reaches Moses, the one named as “drawn out,” before the saying itself is revealed.
THE MEANING
You meet the instant before a message unfolds: the LORD speaks to Moses, whose name carries the image of one drawn out. The source and recipient appear before the saying’s content, holding the moment of disclosure open.
THE ROOT
וַיְדַבֵּר
vayedabber
GROWS FROM
ד־ב־ר
To speak; in its noun branch, a word or matter.
“spake” in this verse is vayedabber. The speaking verb shares its root with davar, which can mean both “word” and “matter.” The verse introduces speech as something with substance, while leaving its matter just beyond the threshold.
ALSO GROWS
dābār: A word, matter, or thing.
דָּבָר
The root joins utterance with the matter being spoken; here, the saying is introduced before its content unfolds.
dibber: To speak or utter.
דִּבֵּר
This is the verb’s spoken action: the verse presents the LORD’s address before revealing what is said.
מֹשֶׁה
Mosheh
GROWS FROM
משׁה
To draw out.
The name Moses is linked in the text to being drawn out of the water. The voice addresses the one whose name carries that nature before the saying is disclosed.
ALSO GROWS
māshāh: To draw someone out, especially from water.
מָשָׁה
This verb supplies the name’s biblical wordplay: Moses is named for being drawn out of the water.
Mosheh: The one drawn out, as the verse’s naming explanation presents him.
מֹשֶׁה
The person receiving the speech bears the nature of one drawn out before the message itself appears.
THE PATTERN
God’s word begins the disclosure of what is about to come into view.
And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.Then the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.THE THREAD
And the LORD spake unto Moses face to face, as a man speaketh unto his friend. And he turned again into the camp: but his servant Joshua, the son of Nun, a young man, departed not out of the tabernacle.The same Hebrew speaking root, דבר (d-b-r), appears when the LORD speaks with Moses face to face. That later description opens this brief introduction toward speech as direct encounter, not only the announcement that words are coming.
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