What Does Nehemiah 9:7 Mean in the King James?
Thou art the LORD the God, who didst choose Abram, and broughtest him forth out of Ur of the Chaldees, and gavest him the name of Abraham;
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
God’s bringing Abram out and giving him a new name are one movement: departure opens into a nature larger than the beginning.
THE MEANING
Your beginning does not contain the whole of your name: a life can be brought out of its first enclosure and called into a wider nature. Abram becomes Abraham, a name the text opens as father of many nations, so departure and new identity move together. What is emerging in you can exceed the name you began with.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
It undoes the belief that your origin or first identity contains the full measure of who you are; here departure and renaming disclose a wider life.
THE ROOT
וַתּוֹצִיאוֹ
vatotsi'o
GROWS FROM
יצא
To go out or emerge; in its causative form, to bring out.
“broughtest him forth” in this verse is vatotsi'o. The Hebrew verb וַתּוֹצִיאוֹ (vatotsi’o, “and you brought him out”) grows from יָצָא (yatsa, “go out, emerge”). Its branches hold departure and source together: יְצִיאָה (yetsi’ah, “going out, departure”) and מוֹצָא (motsa, “outlet, source”). The verse binds being brought out of Ur to a widened identity: אַבְרָם (Avram, “exalted father”) becomes אַבְרָהָם (Avraham, “father of a multitude,” as Genesis 17:5 explains).
ALSO GROWS
yetsi'ah: Going out; departure.
יְצִיאָה
It makes Abram’s being brought forth part of a larger pattern of leaving one place for what opens beyond it.
motsa: An outlet or source; a way out.
מוֹצָא
It connects the act of leaving with the opening that lets a new course begin.
THE PATTERN
A life is brought out of its old enclosure and named toward a wider future.
Neither shall thy name any more be called Abram, but thy name shall be Abraham; for a father of many nations have I made thee.I am the LORD thy God, which have brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.(As it is written, I have made thee a father of many nations,) before him whom he believed, even God, who quickeneth the dead, and calleth those things which be not as though they were.THE THREAD
And he said unto him, I am the LORD that brought thee out of Ur of the Chaldees, to give thee this land to inherit it.This verse repeats the same movement from Ur with יָצָא (yatsa, “go out, bring out”), then names what the departure opens: a place to inherit. Leaving is not an empty rupture; the exit opens into a future.
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