What Does Micah 4:7 Mean in the King James?
And I will make her that halted a remnant, and her that was cast far off a strong nation: and the LORD shall reign over them in mount Zion from henceforth, even 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
The remnant is not what remains after the limping and displaced are gone; it is the limping and displaced themselves, made into a people.
THE MEANING
Your weakness or displacement does not place you outside the people being formed: the verse names the limping and the driven-away as the very ones made into a remnant and a strong nation. The limp is still named when belonging begins; the wound does not have to disappear first. The LORD’s reign extends from now through the ages.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
It undoes the belief that injury or expulsion makes you unusable, or that you must be whole before you can belong.
THE ROOT
שְׁאֵרִית
she'erit
GROWS FROM
שאר
sha'ar
Remain; be left over.
“remnant” in this verse is she'erit. The word roots this identity in what remains after loss. Here, what remains is not a diminished leftover: it is set as the beginning of a people.
ALSO GROWS
sha'ar: To remain; be left over.
שָׁאַר
The verb shows that the remnant is defined by what remains, not by what was never wounded or lost.
she'ar: Remainder; rest of a group.
שְׁאָר
This form makes the passage’s reversal concrete: the remainder itself becomes a nation.
הַנִּדָּחָה
hanniddāḥāh
GROWS FROM
נדח
nadach
Drive away; thrust aside; banish.
“cast far off” in this verse is hanniddāḥāh. The verse keeps the displacement in view: the one driven away becomes a strong nation. The same person moves from exclusion to belonging without first being renamed as someone who was never cast out.
ALSO GROWS
nadach: To drive away or thrust aside.
נָדַח
This verb gives the force behind the description: the person has been actively pushed away.
niddāḥ: One who is driven away; an outcast.
נִדָּח
This form names the excluded person who, in this verse, becomes part of the people.
עָצוּם
ʿāṣûm
GROWS FROM
עצם
ʿatsam
Be mighty; grow numerous.
“strong” in this verse is ʿāṣûm. The outcome is not merely that an isolated person feels stronger: the driven-away one becomes a nation. This root can carry both might and increase, giving the new people strength and substance.
ALSO GROWS
ʿāṣam: To grow mighty or numerous.
עָצַם
Its sense of increase fits the change from one displaced person to a people.
ʿetsem: Bone; substance or essence.
עֶצֶם
This related form adds the sense of solidity: the people formed from the outcast are given substance, not just a new name.
THE PATTERN
God forms a people by gathering those marked as weak or cast aside into belonging and shared strength.
The Lord GOD which gathereth the outcasts of Israel saith, Yet will I gather others to him, beside those that are gathered unto him.Which in time past were not a people, but are now the people of God: which had not obtained mercy, but now have obtained mercy.THE THREAD
Behold, at that time I will undo all that afflict thee: and I will save her that halteth, and gather her that was driven out; and I will get them praise and fame in every land where they have been put to shame.In Hebrew, “the limping one” and “the driven-away one” are the same two word roots in both verses. Micah names those very people as the remnant and strong nation; Zephaniah describes them as delivered and gathered, making the movement from exclusion to belonging visible in the shared words.
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