What Does Jeremiah 29:30 Mean?
Then came the word of the LORD to Jeremiah, 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
Then came the word of the LORD unto Jeremiah, saying,THE KEY
The Hebrew word here can mean both a spoken word and a matter or thing, so what reaches Jeremiah is speech with something real at stake.
THE MEANING
God’s word reaches you as something that happens, not only as information: it arrives and speaks. What you receive is already moving toward expression.
THE ROOT
דְּבַר
dəvar
GROWS FROM
דבר
To speak; speech, a word, or a matter.
Davar can name both what is spoken and the matter itself. English separates a message from the thing it concerns, while this word holds them together: the word arrives already carrying substance.
ALSO GROWS
dābār: Word, matter, or thing.
דָּבָר
This noun is the word that reaches Jeremiah; its range gives the utterance substance, not just sound.
dibbēr: He spoke.
דִּבֵּר
This speaking form shares the root and echoes the verse’s closing “saying”: the word that arrives is already speech.
dəvārīm: Words or matters.
דְּבָרִים
The plural keeps speech and matters together, reinforcing that what is spoken can concern something real and consequential.
THE PATTERN
God’s word is active speech that brings what is hidden into form and reaches into the hearer.
And God said, "Let there be light," and there was light.By the word of the LORD the heavens are made, and all their host by the breath of his mouth.For the word of God is living and working, and sharper than any two-edged sword, reaching through even to the dividing of living soul and breath, of joints and marrow, and it separates the inward movements and thoughts of the heart.THE THREAD
But the word is very near to you, in your mouth and in your heart, that you may do it.The Hebrew word for “word” here and in Jeremiah is the same: דָּבָר (dābār), meaning word or matter. Deuteronomy shows it near, in the mouth and heart, ready to be done, while Jeremiah shows it arriving and speaking.
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