What Does Zechariah 8:18 Mean in the King James?
And the word of the LORD of hosts 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 verse makes revelation an arrival before it becomes an explanation.
THE MEANING
Here, you stand at the threshold of speech: the LORD’s word reaches its hearer before the message is disclosed. The verse lets the arrival itself carry weight, while the saying opens in what follows.
THE ROOT
דָּבָר
dāḇār
GROWS FROM
דבר
d-b-r
To speak or utter; the noun can mean a word, matter, or thing.
Dāḇār can name both what is spoken and the matter being addressed, so the word here is more than a sound carrying information: it is the matter that comes to its hearer. The same word appears in Psalm 33:6 as the means through which the heavens and their host are made.
ALSO GROWS
dāḇār: Word, speech, matter, or thing.
דָּבָר
Its range joins the utterance with the matter it brings into view, giving the arriving word weight beyond a mere message.
dibbēr: Spoke; to speak.
דִּבֵּר
This verbal branch keeps the noun rooted in active speech: the word arrives, then speaks.
THE PATTERN
A word from God is portrayed as an arrival that meets a hearer before its content unfolds.
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.THE THREAD
By the word of the LORD were the heavens made; and all the host of them by the breath of his mouth.Psalm 33:6 uses the same Hebrew word, dāḇār, and shows it making the heavens and their host. Zechariah’s word arrives to a hearer; the psalm opens that same word’s reach to the host of heaven.
Read the SDV Bible.
Every verse has a Deep Dive in the app.
The iPhone Bible app with the Selah Decoded Version.
Does something in this reading look wrong? Tell us