What Does Psalm 7:14 Mean in the King James?
Behold, he travaileth with iniquity, and hath conceived mischief, and brought forth falsehood.
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
Falsehood is shown as the birth of what was carried and worked over inside, so the visible lie has a hidden gestation.
THE MEANING
You can see wrongdoing here as a process: it is carried inwardly, worked over, and finally given expression as deception. The lie is the visible result of what has been conceived; the verse makes that hidden-to-visible movement present now. What takes shape within can become something another person encounters.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
A falsehood can seem like a disconnected slip with no relation to what is carried inside. This verse portrays it as an outcome with a gestation.
THE ROOT
וְיָלַד
we-yālad
GROWS FROM
ילד
y-l-d
To bear, give birth, or beget.
“brought forth” in this verse is we-yālad. The same root forms יֶלֶד (yeled), “child,” and תּוֹלְדוֹת (toledot), “generations” or “lineage.” The verse pictures falsehood as an outcome that belongs to a process: what is conceived and carried inwardly is what comes forth.
ALSO GROWS
yeled: Child or offspring.
יֶלֶד
A child is what has been brought forth; this root makes the verse’s final verb feel like a result, not an isolated event.
toledot: Generations or lineage.
תּוֹלְדוֹת
The root can name what proceeds from what came before, echoing the verse’s movement from inward conception to outward result.
THE PATTERN
What is conceived inwardly takes outward form and can unfold into further consequences.
They conceive mischief, and bring forth vanity, and their belly prepareth deceit.None calleth for justice, nor any pleadeth for truth: they trust in vanity, and speak lies; they conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity.Then when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin: and sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death.THE THREAD
They conceive mischief, and bring forth vanity, and their belly prepareth deceit.Job repeats the same Hebrew roots: הָרָה (harah, “conceive”) and יָלַד (yalad, “bear” or “bring forth”). Read beside it, Psalm 7:14’s falsehood is the outward result of an inwardly conceived process.
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