What Does Jeremiah 25:21 Mean?
Edom, and Moab, and the children of Ammon,
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.
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Edom, and Moab, and the children of Ammon,THE KEY
Edom’s name carries red, human, and ground in one consonantal family, placing distinct peoples on shared ground.
THE MEANING
This line places Edom, Moab, and Ammon within the judgment cup named in the surrounding verses. Their names remain distinct, while Edom echoes a Hebrew word-family that joins the human being to the ground beneath all people.
THE ROOT
אֱדוֹם
ʾĕḏôm
GROWS FROM
אדם
Red; this consonantal family also joins the human being to the ground.
The consonants אדם appear in אָדֹם (ʾādōm, red), אָדָם (ʾādām, human being), and אֲדָמָה (ʾăḏāmāh, ground). Edom’s name carries that red-earth and ground-born resonance into a list of peoples who remain distinct yet share the same human ground.
ALSO GROWS
ʾādōm: Red or ruddy.
אָדֹם
This is the color-word directly associated with Edom’s name, keeping the name’s red meaning audible.
ʾādām: Human being; the ground-being.
אָדָם
Its shared consonants connect Edom’s name with the word for humanity.
ʾăḏāmāh: Ground, soil.
אֲדָמָה
Its shared consonants bring the name back to the ground from which the human being is formed.
THE PATTERN
The cup of judgment passes from one named people to another until no people stands outside its reach.
Then I took the cup from the LORD's hand, and made all the nations drink, to whom the LORD had sent me.For a cup is in the hand of the LORD, and the wine foams, full and mixed; he pours from it, but its dregs, all the wicked of the earth, drain and drink.And he himself drinks from the wine of the seething of God, poured out undiluted into the cup of his swelling. And he is tormented in fire and sulfur before the face of the set-apart messengers, and before the face of the Lamb.THE THREAD
And the LORD God shaped the ground-being, Adam, from the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and Adam became a living soul.Genesis places אָדָם (ʾādām, human being) beside אֲדָמָה (ʾăḏāmāh, ground), words joined by the consonants אדם. Edom carries that same word-family, so the list of peoples quietly echoes the shared ground from which humanity is formed.
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