What Does Jeremiah 17:15 Mean in the King James?
Behold, they say unto me, Where is the word of the LORD? let it come now.
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
“Word” can name both speech and the matter itself, so the challenge asks whether the LORD’s utterance will enter reality.
THE MEANING
This voice in you asks whether the LORD’s word will actually arrive. The verse holds the demand open: the word is not proved by being announced, but by coming into the life it names.
THE ROOT
דְבַר
devar
GROWS FROM
דבר
d-b-r
To speak or declare; the related noun can name a word, matter, or affair.
English “word” can sound like speech alone, but Hebrew davar can also name the matter itself. The question presses for the LORD’s speech to enter as reality, not remain a claim.
ALSO GROWS
davar: Word; matter; affair
דָּבָר
It lets “the word” carry both what is spoken and the matter whose arrival is demanded.
dibber: Spoke; declared
דִּבֶּר
This verbal form keeps the utterance active: the word is speech that moves toward what it names.
יָבוֹא
yavo
GROWS FROM
בוא
b-w-ʾ
To come or enter.
“come” in this verse is yavo. The plea asks the word to enter the scene now. Speech and arrival are held together: the word’s coming is the point at issue.
ALSO GROWS
bo: Come; enter
בּוֹא
It gives “let it come” the sense of arrival into the present scene.
mavo: Entrance; entry
מָבוֹא
This related noun makes the root’s movement into a place explicit.
THE PATTERN
A spoken word is exposed by whether it enters reality and does what it says.
When a prophet speaketh in the name of the LORD, if the thing follow not, nor come to pass, that is the thing which the LORD hath not spoken, but the prophet hath spoken it presumptuously: thou shalt not be afraid of him.So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it.But that on the good ground are they, which in an honest and good heart, having heard the word, keep it, and bring forth fruit with patience.THE THREAD
Then said the LORD unto me, Thou hast well seen: for I will hasten my word to perform it.“My word” here is the same Hebrew davar, דָּבָר, pressed on in Jeremiah 17:15. Here the word is watched over until its work is performed, opening the challenge as a demand for speech to become lived reality.
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