What Does Psalm 2:7 Mean?
I recount the decree. The LORD says to me, You are my Son; today I have brought you forth.
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
I will declare the decree: the LORD hath said unto me, Thou art my Son; this day have I begotten thee.THE KEY
The decree names a birth, so “Son” is not an isolated title but the relation of the one brought forth.
THE MEANING
The verse meets you now by making identity relational: “Thou art my Son” stands beside “I have begotten thee.” The birth verb holds the addressed one’s belonging and origin together, while “this day” keeps the declaration present.
THE ROOT
יְלִדְתִּיךָ
yəlidtîkha
GROWS FROM
ילד
to bear, beget, bring forth
“have brought you forth” in this verse is yəlidtîkha. In ילד (yalad, to bear, beget, bring forth), “begotten” carries actual birth language, while the neighboring “Son” names the relation of the one brought forth. The decree speaks of belonging and origin in one utterance.
ALSO GROWS
yeled: child, boy
יֶלֶד
The same root names the one brought forth, joining the verse’s language of sonship to its language of birth.
toledot: generations, genealogies
תּוֹלְדוֹת
The root extends from an individual birth to the generations that come forth, giving “begotten” a generative reach beyond a bare title.
THE PATTERN
Birth language names the source from which a life or identity comes.
And Adam knew Eve his wife, and she conceived and bore Cain, the gotten one, and she said, I have gotten a man from the LORD.For a child is born to us, a son is given to us; the governance shall be upon his shoulder, and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counselor, Mighty God, Father of the Ages, Prince of Wholeness.Who were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of a man, but of God.THE THREAD
For a child is born to us, a son is given to us; the governance shall be upon his shoulder, and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counselor, Mighty God, Father of the Ages, Prince of Wholeness.Isaiah uses a form of the same root, ילד (yalad, to bear, beget, bring forth), in “a child is born,” then places “a son” beside that birth. The echo joins Psalm 2:7’s “Thou art my Son” and “I have begotten thee” as relation and bringing forth in one claim.
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