What Does Jeremiah 23:6 Mean in the King James?
In his days Judah shall be saved, and Israel shall dwell safely: and this is his name whereby he shall be called, THE LORD OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS.
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 name “The LORD our righteousness” makes the promised rescue communal: the same alignment that delivers Judah gives Israel a place to dwell securely.
THE MEANING
The promise joins rescue with a settled place: Judah is delivered, and Israel dwells securely. “The LORD our righteousness” names alignment as a shared nature, so the verse speaks to the reader now about a life held in that right relation.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
It loosens the belief that righteousness is a private moral score: this name calls the LORD “our righteousness,” making alignment shared and relational.
THE ROOT
תִּוָּשַׁע
tiwwāshaʿ
GROWS FROM
ישע
To deliver or rescue, bringing someone out of constriction into room to live.
The form תִּוָּשַׁע (tiwwāshaʿ, “shall be delivered”) shares its seed with יְשׁוּעָה (yeshuʿah, “deliverance”) and יֵשׁוּעַ (Yeshuʿa, “Yeshua,” the name of deliverance). “Saved” carries a movement from narrowness into room to live, paired here with Israel’s secure dwelling.
ALSO GROWS
yeshuʿah: Deliverance, rescue.
יְשׁוּעָה
It shows the shared seed in the promise that Judah is brought out.
moshiaʿ: Deliverer, one who brings out.
מוֹשִׁיעַ
It links the act of deliverance to the one through whom the people find safety.
Yeshuʿa: Yeshua; a name formed from the same deliverance root.
יֵשׁוּעַ
The verse’s promise of deliverance carries the same seed held in the name of deliverance itself.
צִדְקֵנוּ
tsidqenu
GROWS FROM
צדק
To be right or just; alignment and right relation.
The phrase יהוה צִדְקֵנוּ (YHWH tsidqenu, “The LORD our righteousness/alignment”) makes righteousness the nature named in a shared “our.” The LORD is named as the people’s alignment, the right relation in which deliverance and secure dwelling take shape.
ALSO GROWS
tsedeq: Rightness, justice, alignment.
צֶדֶק
It brings out the alignment contained within the name “our righteousness.”
tsaddiq: A just or aligned person.
צַדִּיק
It shows the same root describing a person by the quality of right relation.
tsedaqah: Justice, right action, alignment made concrete.
צְדָקָה
It shows alignment taking form in the life shared by the people.
THE PATTERN
The LORD’s alignment is shown as the source of a people’s deliverance, restored direction, and shared life.
He restoreth my soul: he leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for his name’s sake.Surely, shall one say, in the LORD have I righteousness and strength: even to him shall men come; and all that are incensed against him shall be ashamed.But of him are ye in Christ Jesus, who of God is made unto us wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption:THE THREAD
In those days shall Judah be saved, and Jerusalem shall dwell safely: and this is the name wherewith she shall be called, The LORD our righteousness.Jeremiah 33:16 repeats צִדְקֵנוּ (tsidqenu, “our righteousness/alignment”), applying this name to Jerusalem. That shared root lets the name stretch from the ruler in this verse to the community’s dwelling itself.
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