What Does Jeremiah 14:10 Mean in the King James?
Thus saith the LORD unto this people, Thus have they loved to wander, they have not refrained their feet, therefore the LORD doth not accept them; he will now remember their iniquity, and visit their sins.
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 verse exposes the feet as the visible expression of a love already set on wandering.
THE MEANING
This verse reads repeated direction as evidence of what has become beloved: the feet keep moving where desire is set. The LORD does not accept that course; crookedness and missing come into remembrance and meet with judgment. What is chosen remains visible and is answered.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
It undoes the belief that repeated wandering is harmless simply because it has become familiar: what is loved is exposed in the feet, and the LORD remembers and visits the crookedness and missing.
THE ROOT
אָהֲבוּ
ʾāhăvû
GROWS FROM
אהב
to love, be attached to, or desire
English can make “loved” sound like a private feeling beside an unrelated mistake in direction. Here the word names wandering as desired: the feet enact an attachment, so their repeated motion reveals what they love.
ALSO GROWS
ʾahavah: love, affection
אַהֲבָה
The noun names the attachment that the verb makes active: wandering is not merely motion but what they love.
ʾahuv: beloved, loved one
אָהוּב
This form names what is loved, showing the root can describe both the attachment and its object.
לָנוּעַ
lānûaʿ to wander
GROWS FROM
נוע
to move, waver, or wander
“wander” in this verse is lānûaʿ to wander. The infinitive לָנוּעַ points to movement, and the verse immediately sets it beside feet that are not held back. The root makes wandering motion without settling; love supplies its direction.
ALSO GROWS
nāʿ: moving, in motion
נָע
This form keeps the movement visible in the root itself; the wandering is motion that continues.
tnuʿah: movement, motion
תְּנוּעָה
The related noun carries the same movement into a thing that can be named, making clear that wandering is a course in motion.
וְיַפְקֹד
wəyifqōd and he
GROWS FROM
פקד
to attend to, appoint, muster, or take account of
This root can describe attending to, appointing, or mustering; the visit is direct attention, not a passing thought. Joined to remembrance, it makes the verse’s answer active: what is remembered is visited as judgment.
ALSO GROWS
pequddah: charge, appointment, visitation, or accounting
פְּקֻדָּה
The noun connects visiting with an assigned charge or accounting, clarifying the active force of the verse’s judgment.
paqīd: officer, overseer, or appointed official
פָּקִיד
This related noun names one appointed to attend to a matter, echoing the purposeful attention in “visit.”
THE PATTERN
What is loved becomes a direction the feet repeatedly take, and that direction bears a response.
Withhold thy foot from being unshod, and thy throat from thirst: but thou saidst, There is no hope: no; for I have loved strangers, and after them will I go.I have refrained my feet from every evil way, that I might keep thy word.But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed.THE THREAD
Withhold thy foot from being unshod, and thy throat from thirst: but thou saidst, There is no hope: no; for I have loved strangers, and after them will I go.Jeremiah 2:25 uses the same root אהב (ʾāhab, love) and joins it to the feet and the act of going after what is loved. Here the same attachment is named as love of wandering itself, tying desire directly to repeated motion.
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