What Does Nehemiah 9:4 Mean in the King James?
Then stood up upon the stairs, of the Levites, Jeshua, and Bani, Kadmiel, Shebaniah, Bunni, Sherebiah, Bani, and Chenani, and cried with a loud voice unto the LORD their God.
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 roll call includes a name meaning deliverance just as the Levites turn their shared, loud voice toward God.
THE MEANING
Distinct names stand together on the stairs, and their voice rises as one public address to the LORD their God. The name Jeshua, carrying the meaning “deliverance,” stands within the same scene as this communal cry.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
The sacred address must be private, quiet, or polished: here, the Levites cry aloud together, and their voice is directed to God.
THE ROOT
יֵשׁוּעַ
Yeshua
GROWS FROM
ישע
Deliver; bring out.
Jeshua carries the nature of deliverance within the roll call. That name stands beside the Levites’ communal cry to God, joining the sound of appeal with the language of being brought out.
ALSO GROWS
yeshuah: Deliverance.
יְשׁוּעָה
This noun makes the name’s root meaning explicit: deliverance is present in the roster as the Levites raise their cry.
hoshia: He delivered; he brought out.
הוֹשִׁיעַ
This verb gives the root an active form, linking the name’s nature to the possibility of being brought out.
וַיִּזְעֲקוּ
vayyizʿaqu
GROWS FROM
זעק
Cry out; make an appeal aloud.
The root names an outcry, and its noun זְעָקָה names the cry itself. English “cried” can sound private, but here the word sits beside “with a loud voice” and “unto the LORD,” making the public direction of the appeal audible.
ALSO GROWS
zaʿaq: To cry out or appeal aloud.
זָעַק
This verb is the seed of the verse’s “cried,” giving the action the force of a voiced appeal.
zeʿaqah: A cry or outcry.
זְעָקָה
This noun shows the same root describing the cry as an audible thing, as in “their cry” in Exodus 2:23.
THE PATTERN
A cry becomes a direct address when it is voiced toward God.
And it came to pass in process of time, that the king of Egypt died: and the children of Israel sighed by reason of the bondage, and they cried, and their cry came up unto God by reason of the bondage.The righteous cry, and the LORD heareth, and delivereth them out of all their troubles.And when they heard that, they lifted up their voice to God with one accord, and said, Lord, thou art God, which hast made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and all that in them is:THE THREAD
And it came to pass in process of time, that the king of Egypt died: and the children of Israel sighed by reason of the bondage, and they cried, and their cry came up unto God by reason of the bondage.The Hebrew root זעק connects the Levites’ cry directly to the Israelites’ cry under bondage, where the outcry rises to God. The same root carries the sound of appeal into this gathered public voice.
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