What Does Jeremiah 18:5 Mean in the King James?
Then the word of the LORD came to me, saying,
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 for “word” also means “matter” or “thing”: the LORD’s speech arrives as something that happens, not merely something heard.
THE MEANING
The word of the LORD meets you as an arrival: it reaches you before you can shape it into your own message. It is not mute information; it comes with speech, entering your present as something that can be heard and answered.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
This undoes the belief that divine speech is only an idea you must manufacture or decode alone; the verse presents it as something that comes and addresses you.
THE ROOT
דְבַר
devar
GROWS FROM
דבר
Speak; the related noun davar can mean a word, matter, or thing.
The verse names the LORD’s speech with דְבַר, from דבר: the same consonants underlie the verb “speak” and the noun “word, matter, or thing.” Hebrew holds utterance and what is spoken in one word-family, so the arriving word is more than information about life; it enters as a matter in your life.
ALSO GROWS
davar: Word, matter, or thing.
דָּבָר
This noun shares the root דבר and lets “the word” carry the added sense of a matter entering the hearer’s life.
dibber: Speak; he spoke.
דִּבֵּר
This verb shares the root’s consonants and shows the movement from speech itself to the word that comes.
THE PATTERN
The divine word moves toward a hearer and works in the life it reaches.
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.While Peter yet spake these words, the Holy Ghost fell on all them which heard the word.For this cause also thank we God without ceasing, because, when ye received the word of God which ye heard of us, ye received it not as the word of men, but as it is in truth, the word of God, which effectually worketh also in you that believe.THE THREAD
By the word of the LORD were the heavens made; and all the host of them by the breath of his mouth.Psalm 33:6 uses the same Hebrew word-family, דבר, and places the LORD’s word at the origin of what is made. Here that word arrives to a person; there, the same speech brings the heavens into being.
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