What Does Jeremiah 2:16 Mean in the King James?
Also the children of Noph and Tahapanes have broken the crown of thy head.
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 constricting power you turn toward can become the force that breaks your crown.
THE MEANING
The wound reaches the crown of your head: harm can come from the very power you have turned toward. The verse names the blow plainly, and its word for “broken” also belongs to the Hebrew family that names evil and harm.
THE ROOT
יִרְעוּךְ
yirʿûk
GROWS FROM
רעע
raʿa
To do harm, to be evil or bad.
The verb rendered “broken” comes from a root that also names evil and harm. Jeremiah uses this same word family in the next verse for “wickedness” and “evil,” joining the wound to a larger pattern of destruction.
ALSO GROWS
raʿ: Evil, bad.
רַע
This branch shows that the root’s harm can be named as evil, not just as damage without meaning.
raʿah: Wickedness, evil, calamity.
רָעָה
Jeremiah 2:19 uses this word family for “thy wickedness” and “an evil thing,” echoing the harm named here.
THE PATTERN
The power leaned on for protection can become the instrument that wounds.
Therefore shall the strength of Pharaoh be your shame, and the trust in the shadow of Egypt your confusion.When Ephraim saw his sickness, and Judah saw his wound, then went Ephraim to the Assyrian, and sent to king Jareb: yet could he not heal you, nor cure you of your wound.When they took hold of thee by thy hand, thou didst break, and rend all their shoulder: and when they leaned upon thee, thou brakest, and madest all their loins to be at a stand.THE THREAD
Thine own wickedness shall correct thee, and thy backslidings shall reprove thee: know therefore and see that it is an evil thing and bitter, that thou hast forsaken the LORD thy God, and that my fear is not in thee, saith the Lord GOD of hosts.The Hebrew word family רעע (raʿa, to do harm or be evil) links “broken” here with “wickedness” and “evil” in the next verse. The two verses show the wound and name the destructive pattern bound up with it.
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