What Does Jeremiah 13:22 Mean in the King James?
And if thou say in thine heart, Wherefore come these things upon me? For the greatness of thine iniquity are thy skirts discovered, and thy heels made bare.
The analysis reads the King James wording.
King James Version The King James Version, first published in 1611. Selah Verse shows the standard text.
THE KEY
The Hebrew word behind “made bare” belongs to the language of violence, giving the exposure the force of violation.
THE MEANING
When the reader asks, “Wherefore come these things upon me?” the verse answers that great crookedness is joined to exposure: the skirts are discovered and the heels laid bare. The final Hebrew verb carries the language of violence, making this bodily exposure humiliating harm.
THE ROOT
נֶחְמְסוּ
neḥmesu
GROWS FROM
חמס
To act violently, inflict wrong, or violate.
The English phrase made bare gives an image of exposure; the Hebrew verb also carries the force of suffering violence. The heels are exposed through a word that makes the body’s humiliation harmful.
ALSO GROWS
ḥāmās: Violence, wrongdoing, or injury.
חָמָס
This noun shares the root consonants and names the violent force carried by the verb rendered made bare.
ḥāmas: To act violently or violate.
חָמַס
This verbal form shows the root’s force; the verse’s passive form depicts the heels as bearing it.
נִגְלוּ
niglu
GROWS FROM
גלה
To uncover, expose, or reveal.
Discovered can sound like finding information, while גלה describes uncovering what was covered. Here the object is the skirts, so revelation takes the physical form of exposure.
ALSO GROWS
gālāh: To uncover or reveal.
גָּלָה
This verb shares the root consonants and names the action expressed by the verse’s form.
megallēh: Uncovering or revealing.
מְגַלֶּה
This form preserves the same root consonants and extends the image of bringing what is covered into view.
nigleh: Uncovered, revealed, or made visible.
נִגְלֶה
This related form shows the exposed state that follows the act of uncovering.
THE PATTERN
What is covered can be brought into view, and concealment does not keep it hidden forever.
Whose hatred is covered by deceit, his wickedness shall be shewed before the whole congregation.For there is nothing covered, that shall not be revealed; neither hid, that shall not be known.THE THREAD
Therefore will I discover thy skirts upon thy face, that thy shame may appear.Jeremiah 13:26 repeats גלה (galah, uncover or reveal) with the skirts themselves as its object. The shared root links this verse’s exposure to the continuing image of uncovered clothing and shame.
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