What Does Zechariah 5:2 Mean in the King James?

And he said unto me, What seest thou? And I answered, I see a flying roll; the length thereof is twenty cubits, and the breadth thereof ten cubits.

Zechariah 5:2 · KJV

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King James Version The King James Version, first published in 1611. Selah Verse shows the standard text.

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THE KEY

The flying scroll bears the exact dimensions of the temple porch, putting the written vision at the scale of a threshold.

THE MEANING

The written words are no longer tucked away; they enter your field of sight in motion. Their measure echoes the temple porch, twenty cubits by ten, so the vision arrives at the scale of an entrance.

WHAT THIS UNDOES

It dissolves the belief that a written message can remain safely contained and unseen; this one is already in flight.

THE ROOT

מְגִלָּה

megillah

GROWS FROM

גלל

galal

to roll, to roll away

⁨מְגִלָּה⁩ (megillah), meaning “scroll” or “roll,” carries the rolling action of ⁨גלל⁩ (galal). Here the rolled writing is airborne: a text that could stay wound up moves into view.

ALSO GROWS

galal: to roll; to roll away

גָּלַל

The scroll’s name preserves this physical action: writing is borne on a rolled surface.

galgal: wheel; rolling wheel

גַּלְגַּל

A wheel extends the same root into a thing that rolls onward, echoing the scroll’s movement through the vision.

THE PATTERN

A written word becomes an encounter when it is brought into view and opened.

Take thee a roll of a book, and write therein all the words that I have spoken unto thee against Israel, and against Judah, and against all the nations, from the day I spake unto thee, from the days of Josiah, even unto this day.

Jeremiah 36:2 · KJVThe words take shape on a scroll, turning what is spoken into a visible message.

And he spread it before me; and it was written within and without: and there was written therein lamentations, and mourning, and woe.

Ezekiel 2:10 · KJVThe scroll is opened into the prophet’s sight, its writing exposed on both sides.

And there was delivered unto him the book of the prophet Esaias. And when he had opened the book, he found the place where it was written,

Luke 4:17 · KJVAn opened scroll brings its written words into the present encounter of a gathered assembly.

THE THREAD

And the porch before the temple of the house, twenty cubits was the length thereof, according to the breadth of the house; and ten cubits was the breadth thereof before the house.

1 Kings 6:3 · KJV

The scroll has the same twenty-by-ten-cubit measurements as the porch before the temple. That shared measure lets the flying text occupy the scale of a threshold.

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