What Does Leviticus 7:22 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 voice reaches Moses, the one named as “drawn out,” before the saying itself is revealed.
THE MEANING
You meet the instant before a message unfolds: the LORD speaks to Moses, whose name carries the image of one drawn out. The source and recipient appear before the saying’s content, holding the moment of disclosure open.
THE ROOT
וַיְדַבֵּר
vayedabber
GROWS FROM
ד־ב־ר
To speak; in its noun branch, a word or matter.
“spake” in this verse is vayedabber. The speaking verb shares its root with davar, which can mean both “word” and “matter.” The verse introduces speech as something with substance, while leaving its matter just beyond the threshold.
ALSO GROWS
dābār: A word, matter, or thing.
דָּבָר
The root joins utterance with the matter being spoken; here, the saying is introduced before its content unfolds.
dibber: To speak or utter.
דִּבֵּר
This is the verb’s spoken action: the verse presents the LORD’s address before revealing what is said.
מֹשֶׁה
Mosheh
GROWS FROM
משׁה
To draw out.
The name Moses is linked in the text to being drawn out of the water. The voice addresses the one whose name carries that nature before the saying is disclosed.
ALSO GROWS
māshāh: To draw someone out, especially from water.
מָשָׁה
This verb supplies the name’s biblical wordplay: Moses is named for being drawn out of the water.
Mosheh: The one drawn out, as the verse’s naming explanation presents him.
מֹשֶׁה
The person receiving the speech bears the nature of one drawn out before the message itself appears.
THE PATTERN
God’s word begins the disclosure of what is about to come into view.
And God said, "Let there be light," and there was light.Then the word of the LORD came to me, saying,In the beginning was the word, and the word was turned toward God, and the word was God.THE THREAD
And the LORD spoke with Moses face to face, as a man speaks with his friend. And he turned again into the camp, but Joshua son of Nun, the young man who served him, did not leave the tent.The same Hebrew speaking root, דבר (d-b-r), appears when the LORD speaks with Moses face to face. That later description opens this brief introduction toward speech as direct encounter, not only the announcement that words are coming.
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