What Does Zechariah 4:8 Mean in the King James?
Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
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 word is already moving toward the hearer before its content is disclosed.
THE MEANING
The word of the LORD comes to you as something moving into reach, already carrying speech before its content is disclosed. You meet the message’s arrival before you meet its full meaning; the verse makes arrival part of revelation.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
The word is not only a fixed message waiting at a distance; it is described as coming toward the hearer.
THE ROOT
דְּבַר
devar
GROWS FROM
דבר
d-b-r
To speak or utter; דָּבָר (dābār) also means a word, matter, or thing.
The same root holds speech and matter together: the word that comes is also a matter being spoken. “Came … saying” presents revelation as movement toward a hearer that becomes utterance, not merely as a message sitting still.
ALSO GROWS
dābār: A spoken word, matter, affair, or thing.
דָּבָר
It shows that “the word” can carry the sense of a matter being brought into speech.
dibbēr: To speak or utter.
דִּבֵּר
The verse’s “saying” echoes the speaking action held in the same root as “word.”
THE PATTERN
The divine word moves toward a hearer before becoming something heard and answered.
Then the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,Annas and Caiaphas being the high priests, the word of God came unto John the son of Zacharias in the wilderness.But what saith it? The word is nigh thee, even in thy mouth, and in thy heart: that is, the word of faith, which we preach;THE THREAD
After these things the word of the LORD came unto Abram in a vision, saying, Fear not, Abram: I am thy shield, and thy exceeding great reward.Genesis 15:1 uses the same דָּבָר (dābār, word or matter) root for a word that comes “in a vision.” It opens the possibility that the word reaches a hearer as an encounter, not only as a sentence.
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