What Does Psalm 33:6 Mean in the King James?
By the word of the LORD were the heavens made; and all the host of them by the breath of his mouth.
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 heavens take form through the LORD’s word, while the same mouth’s breath fills them with their host.
THE MEANING
The world around you holds form and fullness together: the LORD’s word makes the heavens, and the breath from his mouth gives life to their host. Creation is not presented as an empty structure; breath belongs to its making.
THE ROOT
רוּחַ
ruach
GROWS FROM
רוח
Wind, moving air, breath.
The same Hebrew word can name breath and wind, joining the air that moves through the world with the breath from the LORD’s mouth. The heavens’ host is formed through that living movement, not through a separate force.
ALSO GROWS
ravach: To have room, breathe freely, or find relief.
רָוַח
This branch carries breath toward spaciousness: the breath in the verse belongs to a movement that opens room for life.
ruachot: Winds; the plural form of ruach.
רוּחוֹת
The plural shows the same word moving through the air as winds, widening the verse’s breath beyond a sound made by the mouth.
דָּבָר
davar
GROWS FROM
דבר
To speak; the related noun can mean a word, matter, or thing.
The Hebrew family of davar holds speech alongside matter or a thing. Here, the LORD’s word is not only an utterance: it belongs to the making of what exists.
ALSO GROWS
dibber: To speak; the verbal form of the root.
דִּבֶּר
This branch names the speaking action behind the word through which the heavens are made.
devarim: Words, matters, or things.
דְּבָרִים
This plural carries both speech and matters, bringing the spoken word and the made heavens into one root family.
THE PATTERN
Creation comes through the LORD’s utterance and breath, joining form with living fullness.
And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.The Spirit of God hath made me, and the breath of the Almighty hath given me life.All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made.THE THREAD
Thou sendest forth thy spirit, they are created: and thou renewest the face of the earth.This verse uses רוּחַ (ruach, breath), the same Hebrew word translated “spirit” here, and joins it directly to creation and renewal. It opens Psalm 33:6 further: the breath from the LORD’s mouth belongs to the making and renewing of the living world.
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