What Does Leviticus 6:19 Mean?
And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying.
Key words are shown with the Hebrew or Greek and what each word meant.
Selah Decoded Version The Selah Decoded Version renders what the Hebrew and Greek words meant to the people who first heard them.
King James wording
King James Version
And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,THE KEY
The Hebrew root behind “spake” also gives “word” and “matter,” while Moses’ name carries the image of one drawn out.
THE MEANING
You meet this verse at the instant before the message opens: the LORD speaks to a named hearer, and the saying is still unfolding. The spoken word has substance, while Moses’ name carries the movement of being drawn out. The line leaves you at the threshold of what is about to be said.
THE ROOT
וַיְדַבֵּר
vayedabber
GROWS FROM
ד־ב־ר
To speak; the related noun davar means word, matter, or thing.
“spake” in this verse is vayedabber. The Hebrew root joins speaking with the word or matter spoken. This opening presents speech as something with substance, not sound detached from meaning.
ALSO GROWS
davar: Word, matter, or thing
דָּבָר
The spoken act and its content belong to the same word-family, so the LORD’s speech carries the matter that is about to unfold.
medabber: One speaking; a speaker
מְדַבֵּר
This branch keeps the personal voice in view: someone speaks directly to Moses.
מֹשֶׁה
Mosheh
GROWS FROM
משׁה
To draw out, especially from water.
Moses’ name is tied in Exodus to the action “I drew him out.” The hearer addressed here carries a name shaped by emergence from water.
ALSO GROWS
mashah: To draw out
מָשָׁה
The verb behind the name brings the movement of being drawn out into the verse’s otherwise spare address.
meshithihu: I drew him out
מְשִׁיתִהוּ
This is the naming explanation in Exodus: Moses’ name echoes the act of drawing him out of the water.
THE PATTERN
A spoken word begins as personal address, reaching a hearer before its message unfolds.
And when the LORD saw that he turned aside to see, God called to him from the midst of the bush, and said, Moses, Moses. And he said, Here I am.And the LORD came, and stood, and called as at other times, Samuel, Samuel. Then Samuel answered, Speak, for your servant hears and responds.My sheep hear and respond to my voice, and I perceive them, and they follow me.THE THREAD
And the child grew, and she brought him to Pharaoh's daughter, and he became her son. And she called his name Moses, the one drawn out, and she said, Because from the waters I drew him out.Exodus names Moses through the same Hebrew root as “I drew him out.” The address in Leviticus reaches a person whose name still carries the movement from water into emergence.
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