What Does Psalm 106:10 Mean in the King James?

And he saved them from the hand of him that hated them, and redeemed them from the hand of the enemy.

Psalm 106:10 · KJV

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

Deliverance here means both escape from the hater’s grasp and reclamation from the enemy’s hand.

THE MEANING

When hostility holds you in its grasp, the verse speaks of being brought out of reach and reclaimed from the enemy’s claim. Rescue and restoration belong together: the hostile hand does not get the final say over you.

WHAT THIS UNDOES

It undoes the belief that being held by an enemy’s power means that power owns the final claim.

THE ROOT

וַיּוֹשִׁיעֵם

wayyoshiʿem

GROWS FROM

י־ש־ע

y-š-ʿ

deliver, bring into safety

“saved” in this verse is wayyoshiʿem. The verb names movement out of the hater’s reach. Its root also forms words for deliverance and a deliverer, showing that this rescue is an act of bringing someone clear, not merely a change of status.

ALSO GROWS

yeshuʿah: deliverance

יְשׁוּעָה

This noun names the deliverance enacted by the verb in the verse.

moshiaʿ: deliverer

מוֹשִׁיעַ

This form names the one who brings someone out, matching the verse’s active picture of rescue.

וַיִּגְאָלֵם

wayyigʾalem

GROWS FROM

ג־א־ל

g-ʾ-l

reclaim, redeem

“redeemed” in this verse is wayyigʾalem. The second verb adds reclamation to the rescue: the people are brought out of the enemy’s hand and recovered from it. The root can carry the sense of a kinsman reclaiming what has been lost, so redemption here has the shape of someone being retrieved.

ALSO GROWS

goʾel: kinsman-redeemer

גֹּאֵל

This related word shows the root’s sense of reclaiming on behalf of another.

geʾullah: redemption, reclamation

גְּאֻלָּה

The noun names the recovery that the verse’s second verb enacts.

שֹׂנֵא

soneʾ

GROWS FROM

שׂ־נ־א

ś-n-ʾ

hate, hostility

“him that hated them” in this verse is soneʾ. The Hebrew calls this figure a hater, making the threat personal rather than abstract. The verse answers that active hostility with two acts: bringing the people out and reclaiming them from the enemy’s hand.

ALSO GROWS

soneʾ: hater

שֹׂנֵא

This participle describes the person from whose grasp the people are delivered.

sinʾah: hatred

שִׂנְאָה

This noun names the hostility behind the hater’s grip.

THE PATTERN

Deliverance breaks an oppressor’s grasp and brings the held person out of its reach.

Thus the LORD saved Israel that day out of the hand of the Egyptians; and Israel saw the Egyptians dead upon the sea shore.

Exodus 14:30 · KJVThe LORD brings Israel out of the Egyptians’ hand, repeating the verse’s picture of rescue from hostile control.

Let the redeemed of the LORD say so, whom he hath redeemed from the hand of the enemy;

Psalm 107:2 · KJVThe verse repeats the image of redemption from the enemy’s hand and shares the Hebrew root ⁨ג־א־ל⁩ (g-ʾ-l), meaning reclaim or redeem.

That he would grant unto us, that we being delivered out of the hand of our enemies might serve him without fear,

Luke 1:74 · KJVDeliverance again means release from enemies’ hands, opening a life no longer governed by their threat.

THE THREAD

Let the redeemed of the LORD say so, whom he hath redeemed from the hand of the enemy;

Psalm 107:2 · KJV

Psalm 107:2 uses the same root ⁨ג־א־ל⁩ (g-ʾ-l), meaning reclaim or redeem, and repeats the phrase about being taken from the enemy’s hand. It makes the second movement in Psalm 106:10 stand out: deliverance includes being reclaimed from hostile control.

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