What Does Jeremiah 22:1 Mean in the King James?

Thus saith the LORD; Go down to the house of the king of Judah, and speak there this word,

Jeremiah 22:1 · KJV

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 word descends into the king’s own house, where it becomes speech: Hebrew’s same root holds the utterance and the matter together.

THE MEANING

The word moves into the house where power lives and takes voice there. You encounter a truth that enters the center of authority rather than remaining a private thought.

WHAT THIS UNDOES

The lie is that divine address can stay abstract and leave power untouched; this verse sends speech directly into the king’s house.

THE ROOT

וְדִבַּרְתָּ

vedibbarta

GROWS FROM

דבר

d-b-r

To speak; a word or matter.

“speak / word” in this verse is vedibbarta. The Hebrew verb for “speak” and the noun “word” come from the same root. The message is not a detached idea: it is spoken matter, carried into the king’s house.

ALSO GROWS

dāḇār: Word, matter, or thing.

דָּבָר

The word delivered in the king’s house is also the matter brought before him.

dibber: He spoke.

דִּבֶּר

This verbal form shows that the matter takes voice; Jeremiah is told to speak the word there.

THE PATTERN

The word of truth goes to the place where power sits and speaks there.

And the LORD sent Nathan unto David. And he came unto him, and said unto him, There were two men in one city; the one rich, and the other poor.

2 Samuel 12:1 · KJVThe message reaches David through Nathan and addresses the king within his own life.

Arise, go down to meet Ahab king of Israel, which is in Samaria: behold, he is in the vineyard of Naboth, whither he is gone down to possess it.

1 Kings 21:18 · KJVElijah is sent down to meet Ahab where the king is acting on his power.

Then Agrippa said unto Paul, Thou art permitted to speak for thyself. Then Paul stretched forth the hand, and answered for himself:

Acts 26:1 · KJVPaul’s speech reaches the royal hearing itself, making the ruler’s presence the place addressed.

THE THREAD

But the LORD said unto me, Say not, I am a child: for thou shalt go to all that I shall send thee, and whatsoever I command thee thou shalt speak.

Jeremiah 1:7 · KJV

“Speak” in both verses comes from the Hebrew root ⁨דבר⁩. Here the root holds speaking and “the word” together: the sent one gives voice to the matter entrusted to him.

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