What Does Jeremiah 23:6 Mean?
In his days Judah shall be delivered, and Israel shall settle in trust; and this is the name by which they shall call him, THE LORD OUR ALIGNMENT.
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
In his days Judah shall be saved, and Israel shall dwell safely: and this is his name whereby he shall be called, THE LORD OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS.THE KEY
The name “The LORD our righteousness” makes the promised rescue communal: the same alignment that delivers Judah gives Israel a place to dwell securely.
THE MEANING
The promise joins rescue with a settled place: Judah is delivered, and Israel dwells securely. “The LORD our righteousness” names alignment as a shared nature, so the verse speaks to the reader now about a life held in that right relation.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
It loosens the belief that righteousness is a private moral score: this name calls the LORD “our righteousness,” making alignment shared and relational.
THE ROOT
תִּוָּשַׁע
tiwwāshaʿ
GROWS FROM
ישע
To deliver or rescue, bringing someone out of constriction into room to live.
The form תִּוָּשַׁע (tiwwāshaʿ, “shall be delivered”) shares its seed with יְשׁוּעָה (yeshuʿah, “deliverance”) and יֵשׁוּעַ (Yeshuʿa, “Yeshua,” the name of deliverance). “Saved” carries a movement from narrowness into room to live, paired here with Israel’s secure dwelling.
ALSO GROWS
yeshuʿah: Deliverance, rescue.
יְשׁוּעָה
It shows the shared seed in the promise that Judah is brought out.
moshiaʿ: Deliverer, one who brings out.
מוֹשִׁיעַ
It links the act of deliverance to the one through whom the people find safety.
Yeshuʿa: Yeshua; a name formed from the same deliverance root.
יֵשׁוּעַ
The verse’s promise of deliverance carries the same seed held in the name of deliverance itself.
צִדְקֵנוּ
tsidqenu
GROWS FROM
צדק
To be right or just; alignment and right relation.
“OUR ALIGNMENT” in this verse is tsidqenu. The phrase יהוה צִדְקֵנוּ (YHWH tsidqenu, “The LORD our righteousness/alignment”) makes righteousness the nature named in a shared “our.” The LORD is named as the people’s alignment, the right relation in which deliverance and secure dwelling take shape.
ALSO GROWS
tsedeq: Rightness, justice, alignment.
צֶדֶק
It brings out the alignment contained within the name “our righteousness.”
tsaddiq: A just or aligned person.
צַדִּיק
It shows the same root describing a person by the quality of right relation.
tsedaqah: Justice, right action, alignment made concrete.
צְדָקָה
It shows alignment taking form in the life shared by the people.
THE PATTERN
The LORD’s alignment is shown as the source of a people’s deliverance, restored direction, and shared life.
He turns back my living soul; he leads me in the tracks of alignment for the sake of his nature.Surely, one shall say, in the LORD I have alignment and strength. To him they shall come, and they shall be ashamed, all who burn against him.But from him you are in Jesus the Anointed One, who became for us wisdom from God, and alignment, and setting apart, and the buying back.THE THREAD
In those days Judah shall be delivered, and Jerusalem shall dwell leaning her full weight, and this is the name by which she shall be called, the LORD our alignment.Jeremiah 33:16 repeats צִדְקֵנוּ (tsidqenu, “our righteousness/alignment”), applying this name to Jerusalem. That shared root lets the name stretch from the ruler in this verse to the community’s dwelling itself.
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