What Does Zechariah 7:4 Mean in the King James?
Then came the word of the LORD of hosts 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 Hebrew word for “word” also means “matter” or “thing,” so the speech that arrives carries substance.
THE MEANING
A word from the LORD of hosts meets you as a direct address. Before its content unfolds, the verse makes the arrival itself visible: speech comes to a person.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
This loosens the belief that the divine word is only distant information: here, it reaches a person directly, before its content is even given.
THE ROOT
דָּבָר
davar
GROWS FROM
דבר
dabar
to speak
Davar (דָּבָר, “word” or “matter”) grows from the root דבר, whose verbal branch dibber (דִּבֵּר, “he spoke”) means speaking. The word that comes to you is speech with substance: an address that carries a matter, not a detached sound.
ALSO GROWS
davar: word; matter; thing
דָּבָר
This noun holds spoken language and the matter being spoken about within the same word.
dibber: he spoke
דִּבֵּר
The verbal branch shows the word as speech in motion, arriving as an address.
THE PATTERN
God’s word comes as a personal address whose arrival precedes the message’s unfolding.
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.Then the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me:THE THREAD
Then the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,Both verses use davar (דָּבָר, “word”) in the same arrival pattern: the word comes to a person and opens into speech. That repetition presents the word as an encounter, not only as a sentence on a page.
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