What Does Jeremiah 17:26 Mean in the King James?
And they shall come from the cities of Judah, and from the places about Jerusalem, and from the land of Benjamin, and from the plain, and from the mountains, and from the south, bringing burnt offerings, and sacrifices, and meat offerings, and incense, and bringing sacrifices of praise, unto the house of the LORD.
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
Judah (יְהוּדָה, Yehudah, “praise”) arrives carrying todah (תּוֹדָה, “thanksgiving”), so the place and the offering meet in one word-family.
THE MEANING
The verse speaks to you as a movement from scattered places into a shared presence: city, surrounding country, plain, mountain, and south all converge at the LORD’s house. You arrive carrying different forms of gift, and praise itself is named as an offering brought there. Judah’s name echoes praise, so the place and the offering meet in one word-family.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
Praise is not only an inward feeling or spoken line; here it is an offering brought alongside other gifts.
THE ROOT
תּוֹדָה
todah
GROWS FROM
ידה
To acknowledge, give thanks, or praise.
“sacrifices of praise” in this verse is todah. The verse’s Judah (יְהוּדָה, Yehudah, “Judah”) is linked to the same root as todah, the thanksgiving offering. The land’s name and the final gift echo one another: praise arrives bearing praise.
ALSO GROWS
yadah: A verb for giving thanks, praising, or acknowledging.
יָדָה
Todah is the brought act of praise named by this verb.
Yehudah: Judah, whose name is associated with giving thanks or praise.
יְהוּדָה
The verse names Judah and then names a todah offering, bringing the place and its gift into the same word-family.
מְבִאֵי
mevi'ei
GROWS FROM
בוא
To come or enter; in a causative form, to bring or cause to enter.
The verse uses this root first for the people who come and again for those bringing praise. Their arrival already carries something into the LORD’s house.
ALSO GROWS
bo: To come or enter.
בּוֹא
This is the root behind the verse’s opening movement: “they shall come.”
hevi: To bring or cause something to enter.
הֵבִיא
The causative form makes the movement tangible: the people come, bringing offerings with them.
עֹלוֹת
olot
GROWS FROM
עלה
To rise, ascend, or go up.
The Hebrew term for burnt offerings grows from the word for rising or ascending. As people come inward from many places, the offering is pictured as rising toward the LORD’s house.
ALSO GROWS
alah: A verb for moving upward or ascending.
עָלָה
It gives the burnt offering its image of an offering that rises.
aliyah: An ascent or upward movement.
עֲלִיָּה
This related word makes the upward direction within olot easier to hear.
THE PATTERN
Many places and kinds of people converge at the divine dwelling, where arrival becomes an offering of praise.
Enter into his gates with thanksgiving, and into his courts with praise: be thankful unto him, and bless his name.The multitude of camels shall cover thee, the dromedaries of Midian and Ephah; all they from Sheba shall come: they shall bring gold and incense; and they shall shew forth the praises of the LORD.After this I beheld, and, lo, a great multitude, which no man could number, of all nations, and kindreds, and people, and tongues, stood before the throne, and before the Lamb, clothed with white robes, and palms in their hands; And cried with a loud voice, saying, Salvation to our God which sitteth upon the throne, and unto the Lamb.THE THREAD
Enter into his gates with thanksgiving, and into his courts with praise: be thankful unto him, and bless his name.Jeremiah’s “sacrifices of praise” is תּוֹדָה (todah, “thanksgiving”), the same Hebrew word Psalm 100:4 uses for “thanksgiving.” In Jeremiah it is carried into the house; in the psalm, todah accompanies entry through the gates.
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