What Does Numbers 15:41 Mean in the King James?
I am the LORD your God, which brought you out of the land of Egypt, to be your God: I am the LORD your 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 LORD is named through one defining movement: bringing you out of Mitzrayim’s double narrowness.
THE MEANING
The LORD meets you as your God, the one who brings you out of constriction. Release carries you into belonging, and the repeated declaration holds that relationship in the present.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
It dissolves the belief that belonging to God means remaining confined: here, the LORD names himself through bringing you out.
THE ROOT
מִצְרַיִם
Mitzrayim
GROWS FROM
צ־ר־ר
ṣ-r-r
To bind, press, or constrict; the root family carries the image of a narrow place.
“Egypt” in this verse is Mitzrayim. Mitzrayim is heard through metzar, the narrow place, and its -ayim ending carries the shape of two narrows. The verse makes bringing you out of that constriction part of how the LORD is known as your God.
ALSO GROWS
tsarar: To bind or press in.
צָרַר
It gives the constriction in Mitzrayim a bodily sense of being pressed or held in.
metzar: A narrow place or strait.
מֵצַר
This is the narrowness echoed in Psalm 118:5, where the speaker moves from distress into a large place.
הוֹצֵאתִי
hotzeiti from yatsa
GROWS FROM
י־צ־א
y-ts-ʾ
To go out or emerge; in this verb form, to cause someone to go out.
“brought you out” in this verse is hotzeiti from yatsa. The verb keeps emergence visible: the LORD causes you to go out. Release is not just a change of location; it is the defining act that carries the verse into its promise of belonging.
ALSO GROWS
yatsa: To go out or emerge.
יָצָא
The verb’s basic motion remains inside “brought you out,” making your emergence part of the sentence.
motza: An outlet, source, or place of going out.
מוֹצָא
Its image of an opening gives the act of being brought out the shape of finding a way through.
יְהוָה
YHWH
GROWS FROM
ה־י־ה
h-y-h
To be, become, or be present; YHWH is traditionally linked with this root.
“LORD” in this verse is YHWH. The name appears before and after the act of bringing you out, enclosing the movement in a declaration of presence. Read through its traditional link with being, the repeated name holds God’s presence steady across the passage from constriction into belonging.
ALSO GROWS
hayah: To be or become.
הָיָה
This root gives the repeated divine name a resonance of presence and becoming.
ehyeh: I am or I will be.
אֶהְיֶה
This form echoes the verse’s repeated “I am the LORD your God,” joining the name to presence.
THE PATTERN
Deliverance moves you out of constriction and into spaciousness and belonging.
I called upon the LORD in distress: the LORD answered me, and set me in a large place.Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage.The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised,THE THREAD
I called upon the LORD in distress: the LORD answered me, and set me in a large place.The Hebrew phrase מִן־הַמֵּצַר (min-hametzar, “from the narrow place”) echoes the constriction carried by Mitzrayim. The answer is a large place, revealing the exit in Numbers as a movement out of narrowness and into space.
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