What Does Jeremiah 7:15 Mean?
And I will throw you out from my face, as I have thrown out all your brothers, the whole seed of Ephraim.
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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
And I will cast you out of my sight, as I have cast out all your brethren, even the whole seed of Ephraim.THE KEY
To be cast “out of my sight” is to be hurled from before God’s face, and the sentence reaches an entire lineage.
THE MEANING
You hear a sentence of expulsion: being cast from before God’s face means removal from God’s presence, not merely slipping from view. Its reach is collective, the whole seed of Ephraim, an entire lineage, is named within the sentence. Ephraim carries the name of fruitfulness, making that removal starkly comprehensive.
THE ROOT
הִשְׁלַכְתִּי
hishlakhti
GROWS FROM
שׁלך
Throw, hurl.
“thrown out” in this verse is hishlakhti. The verb pictures forceful removal. Paired with “out of my sight,” it describes a people hurled from before God’s face, an expulsion from presence, not merely a failure to be seen.
ALSO GROWS
shalakh: To throw or cast.
שָׁלַךְ
This is the base verb beneath the verse’s forceful “cast out.”
hashlakhah: Throwing or casting away.
הַשְׁלָכָה
The noun carries the same action of hurling away that gives the verse its severity.
פָּנַי
panai
GROWS FROM
פנה
Turn or face toward.
The Hebrew word rendered “sight” is “my face,” a word that also speaks of presence. Together with “cast,” it makes the phrase an image of being expelled from before God’s face.
ALSO GROWS
panim: Face; presence.
פָּנִים
The verse uses this word in its suffixed form, “my face,” for the presence from which the people are cast.
lifnei: Before; in front of.
לִפְנֵי
This form carries the image of being before someone’s face, clarifying the relational force of “out of my sight.”
panah: To turn or face toward.
פָּנָה
The root’s turning and facing language deepens “sight” into orientation and presence.
אֶפְרָיִם
Efrayim
GROWS FROM
פרה
Bear fruit; be fruitful.
Ephraim’s name carries the meaning of fruitfulness. Beside “the whole seed of Ephraim,” that name sharpens the image: an entire lineage marked by fruitfulness is named within the sentence of expulsion.
ALSO GROWS
parah: To be fruitful; bear fruit.
פָּרָה
This is the root linked to Ephraim’s name, bringing fruitfulness into the verse’s image of an entire people.
peri: Fruit.
פְּרִי
This branch makes the name’s fruitfulness tangible beside the verse’s reference to Ephraim’s seed.
THE PATTERN
Judgment is described as removal from God’s face when presence itself is at stake.
Do not throw me away from your face, and do not take your Set-Apart Breath from me.And the LORD rejected all the seed of Israel, bent them low, and gave them into the hand of plunderers, until he had thrown them from his face.who shall pay the penalty of ruin of the ages, away from the face of the Lord and from the weight of his strength.THE THREAD
Do not throw me away from your face, and do not take your Set-Apart Breath from me.Psalm 51:11 uses the same verb for casting and the same face-and-presence image, but turns it into a plea not to be thrown from before God. That echo shows the rupture named in Jeremiah: removal from presence itself.
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