What Does Jeremiah 11:23 Mean in the King James?

And there shall be no remnant of them: for I will bring evil upon the men of Anathoth, even the year of their visitation.

Jeremiah 11:23 · KJV

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THE KEY

The “visitation” is the appointed reckoning when no remnant remains.

THE MEANING

This verse puts the severity of judgment before you now: the men it names have no remnant, and harm arrives at an appointed time. “Visitation” names that arrival as a reckoning; the text leaves its devastating result unsoftened.

WHAT THIS UNDOES

The belief that divine visitation always brings comfort or rescue is contradicted here: this visitation brings judgment with no remnant.

THE ROOT

פְּקֻדָּתָם

pequddatam

GROWS FROM

פקד

⁨פקד⁩ (paqad) means to attend to or visit; by context it can also mean to muster or number.

The root can describe both attending to someone and counting or mustering them. In “the year of their visitation,” visitation is an appointed reckoning: the moment they are brought into account and the declared outcome arrives.

ALSO GROWS

paqad: attend to, visit, muster, or number

פָּקַד

The verb holds together a visit and a reckoning: the people are attended to, and their fate is determined.

mifqad: muster or numbering

מִפְקָד

This branch makes the accounting sense audible beneath “visitation”: the reckoning gathers and counts those who face it.

שְׁאֵרִית

she'erit

GROWS FROM

שאר

⁨שאר⁩ (sha’ar) means to remain or be left over.

The word names what remains after an event. So “no remnant” states the judgment’s totality: nothing is left over to survive it.

ALSO GROWS

sha'ar: remain or be left

שָׁאַר

The verb supplies the root sense behind “remnant”: what remains is what has been left.

she'ar: remainder or what remains

שְׁאָר

This branch reinforces the force of “no remnant”, no remainder is left after the appointed reckoning.

THE PATTERN

A divine visitation is an appointed moment when what is attended to reaches its outcome, promise fulfilled or wrongdoing reckoned.

And the LORD visited Sarah as he had said, and the LORD did unto Sarah as he had spoken.

Genesis 21:1 · KJVThe same Hebrew root ⁨פקד⁩ (paqad) describes a visitation that brings a spoken promise to its outcome.

Therefore now go, lead the people unto the place of which I have spoken unto thee: behold, mine Angel shall go before thee: nevertheless in the day when I visit I will visit their sin upon them.

Exodus 32:34 · KJVHere the same root marks the appointed time when wrongdoing is brought into account.

Having your conversation honest among the Gentiles: that, whereas they speak against you as evildoers, they may by your good works, which they shall behold, glorify God in the day of visitation.

1 Peter 2:12 · KJVThe “day of visitation” is again an appointed encounter whose outcome becomes visible.

THE THREAD

Therefore thus saith the LORD God of Israel against the pastors that feed my people; Ye have scattered my flock, and driven them away, and have not visited them: behold, I will visit upon you the evil of your doings, saith the LORD.

Jeremiah 23:2 · KJV

The same root appears first for the shepherds’ failure to attend the people and then for the announced reckoning. That echo opens up the force of “visitation” here: it is an attending that brings the outcome into view.

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