What Does Zechariah 10:8 Mean in the King James?
I will hiss for them, and gather them; for I have redeemed them: and they shall increase as they have increased.
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 whistle is already the gathering: the call reaches the scattered before their increase appears.
THE MEANING
The verse meets you in the scattered places and speaks a call that gathers you. Release is its stated ground, and growth unfolds from what has been gathered.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
It undoes the belief that being scattered means you cannot be gathered or grow again.
THE ROOT
וַאֲקַבְּצֵם
va'aqabbetsem
GROWS FROM
קבץ
To gather, collect, or assemble.
The Hebrew root קבץ (qavats, to gather or collect) carries the sense of bringing things together into a group. Its branches still name a collection and a group, so the verse links the call to the forming of a people: increase follows what has been gathered.
ALSO GROWS
qibbuts: A gathering or collection.
קִבּוּץ
This noun preserves the root’s action of bringing together, echoing the gathering promised in the verse.
qevutsah: A group or collection.
קְבוּצָה
The gathered ones become a group; the root holds both the act of gathering and its gathered result.
THE PATTERN
A call that reaches the scattered brings them into a shared life that can grow.
And he shall set up an ensign for the nations, and shall assemble the outcasts of Israel, and gather together the dispersed of Judah from the four corners of the earth.Hear the word of the LORD, O ye nations, and declare it in the isles afar off, and say, He that scattered Israel will gather him, and keep him, as a shepherd doth his flock.And other sheep I have, which are not of this fold: them also I must bring, and they shall hear my voice; and there shall be one fold, and one shepherd.THE THREAD
And he shall set up an ensign for the nations, and shall assemble the outcasts of Israel, and gather together the dispersed of Judah from the four corners of the earth.Isaiah uses the same Hebrew root, קבץ (qavats, to gather), for gathering the dispersed. Zechariah’s whistle is the call that begins this gathering; Isaiah shows its reach extending to the four corners of the earth.
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