What Does Micah 2:9 Mean in the King James?
The women of my people have ye cast out from their pleasant houses; from their children have ye taken away my glory for ever.
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
Driving women from their homes reaches beyond the doorway: the children lose what the verse calls the speaker’s own splendor.
THE MEANING
This verse names the cost of expelling women from their homes: their children are deprived of the speaker’s own splendor. The loss does not end at the doorway; the verse says it persists through the ages.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
It undoes the belief that removing a woman from her home leaves her children untouched: the verse calls what they lose the speaker’s own splendor.
THE ROOT
הֲדָרִי
hadari
GROWS FROM
ה־ד־ר
Splendor, majesty, or honor.
“glory” in this verse is hadari. Hadar can name splendor and also the act of honoring someone. The children lose more than reputation: the verse names their lost dignity as the speaker’s own splendor.
ALSO GROWS
hadar: Splendor or majesty.
הָדָר
This branch makes the children’s loss something radiant and substantial, not merely a change in status.
vehadarta: You shall honor; in Leviticus 19:32, honor the face of the aged.
וְהָדַרְתָּ
The same root links splendor with the act of honoring, sharpening the force of what is taken from the children.
תְּגָרְשׁוּן
tegarshun
GROWS FROM
ג־ר־שׁ
Drive out or expel.
This root names forceful expulsion and also forms the word for a woman put away from her husband. “Cast out” carries the severing of belonging, not simply movement from one place to another.
ALSO GROWS
garash: To drive out or expel.
גָּרַשׁ
This is the root action behind the verse’s removal of women from their homes.
gerushah: A woman put away or divorced.
גְּרוּשָׁה
This form appears in Leviticus 21:7 and shows the root extending expulsion into the language of a severed household bond.
תַּעֲנוּגֶיהָ
ta'anugéha
GROWS FROM
ע־נ־ג
Take delight or find pleasure.
“pleasant” in this verse is ta'anugéha. The phrase is a house of her delights. The expulsion removes not only shelter but a place associated with her enjoyment and well-being.
ALSO GROWS
oneg: Delight or pleasure.
עֹנֶג
Isaiah 58:13 uses this word for delight, revealing the quality of home named in Micah.
hit'anneg: Take delight.
הִתְעַנֵּג
Psalm 37:4 uses this form for taking delight, linking the house’s description to lived enjoyment.
THE PATTERN
When the vulnerable are stripped of shelter and standing, their injury reaches the children and exposes the community’s justice.
To turn aside the needy from judgment, and to take away the right from the poor of my people, that widows may be their prey, and that they may rob the fatherless!A father of the fatherless, and a judge of the widows, is God in his holy habitation.Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.THE THREAD
They shall not take a wife that is a whore, or profane; neither shall they take a woman put away from her husband: for he is holy unto his God.The woman “put away” is גְּרוּשָׁה (gerushah), from the same ג־ר־שׁ (garash) root as “cast out” in Micah. The shared root carries expulsion into the language of a severed household bond, sharpening the force of the women driven from home.
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