What Does Micah 7:15 Mean?
As in the days of your coming out of the land of Egypt, I will show him wonders.
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
According to the days of thy coming out of the land of Egypt will I shew unto him marvellous things.THE KEY
The exodus is not only the wonder being recalled; it becomes the measure of what can be shown again.
THE MEANING
When the way out feels closed, this verse holds open the possibility of being led out and shown what exceeds what you can make. The remembered exit is not the limit of what God can show now; it becomes the measure this verse gives for what may be revealed again.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
It undoes the belief that the last deliverance was the only one, and that the future can only repeat the past.
THE ROOT
נִפְלָאוֹת
nifla'ot
GROWS FROM
פלא
pala
To be extraordinary or wondrous, beyond the ordinary measure.
“wonders” in this verse is nifla'ot. The word carries more than the sense of something impressive: it names what exceeds ordinary measure. The exodus is the comparison for what can be shown again, not a boundary on what is possible.
ALSO GROWS
pele: Wonder; extraordinary act
פֶּלֶא
It names an act that exceeds ordinary expectation, as the promise here does.
nifla: Wonderful; extraordinary
נִפְלָא
It describes the quality shared by the wonders Micah says can be shown again.
אַרְאֶנּוּ
ar'ennu
GROWS FROM
ראה
ra'ah
To see or perceive; in this form, to cause someone to see.
“shew” in this verse is ar'ennu. The verb is causative: “I will show him” also carries the sense “I will cause him to see.” The promise concerns both the wonder itself and its becoming visible to the one who sees it.
ALSO GROWS
ra'ah: To see; perceive
רָאָה
The root’s basic sense keeps seeing inside the promise to show.
mar'eh: Appearance; vision
מַרְאֶה
This branch links what is seen with what becomes visible.
מִצְרַיִם
Mitzrayim
GROWS FROM
צרר
tsarar
To bind, press in, or constrict; the root image behind narrowness.
Read through the root’s image of constriction, Egypt is the narrow place from which the way out begins. The verse joins that constriction to “coming out,” then sets the wonder beyond it.
ALSO GROWS
tsar: Narrow; constricted
צַר
It gives the narrowness that frames the starting point of the exodus.
meitzar: Strait; narrow place
מֵצַר
It pictures constriction as a place one can come out of.
tsarah: Distress; trouble
צָרָה
It shows how the root’s image of being pressed in can also describe distress.
THE PATTERN
The way out of constriction opens through acts beyond ordinary human capacity.
And he said, Behold, I cut a covenant. Before all your people I will do wonders, such as have not been created in all the earth, nor in any nation. And all the people in whose midst you are shall see the work of the LORD, for it is a thing of awe that I will do with you.Behold, I am making a new thing; now it sprouts; will you not perceive it? I will even lay a way in the wilderness, and rivers in the parched land.This one brought them out, having made wonders and signs in the land of Egypt, and in the Red Sea, and in the wilderness for forty years.THE THREAD
And he said, Behold, I cut a covenant. Before all your people I will do wonders, such as have not been created in all the earth, nor in any nation. And all the people in whose midst you are shall see the work of the LORD, for it is a thing of awe that I will do with you.Micah’s “marvellous things” and Exodus’s “marvels” arise from the same Hebrew root פלא (pala, “to be extraordinary, wondrous”). The earlier promise becomes the very language Micah uses for what can be shown again.
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