What Does Jeremiah 24:9 Mean in the King James?
And I will deliver them to be removed into all the kingdoms of the earth for their hurt, to be a reproach and a proverb, a taunt and a curse, in all places whither I shall drive them.
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
Exile here becomes a public identity: the people are driven across borders and made into a sharpened saying others repeat.
THE MEANING
The verse speaks now of judgment that sets a people among the kingdoms and exposes them as reproach, proverb, taunt, and curse. Displacement reaches beyond lost ground: it becomes a story others repeat, fixing shame onto those who endure it. The force is stark, their suffering is made public.
THE ROOT
וּנְתַתִּים
u-netattim
GROWS FROM
נתן
n-t-n
Give, set, place.
Beneath “deliver” is the concrete act of giving or setting. Here the people are placed among the kingdoms, exposed to a condition of public disgrace.
ALSO GROWS
natan: Give, set, place.
נָתַן
This is the verb’s root form: the people are assigned to the situation named in the verse.
mattanah: Gift, present; something given.
מַתָּנָה
This noun shares the root’s plain sense of giving; here what is given over is a people facing disgrace.
אֲדִיחֵם
ʾadîḥēm
GROWS FROM
נדח
n-d-ḥ
Thrust away, drive out.
“drive” in this verse is ʾadîḥēm. This root carries the force of being pushed away from one’s place, not simply traveling elsewhere. Deuteronomy uses the same root for the person driven to the farthest edge, then speaks of gathering that person.
ALSO GROWS
niddāḥ: One driven out; an outcast.
נִדָּח
The root makes displacement a condition borne by the person, not only movement across geography.
hiddiaḥ: Drive away, thrust aside.
הִדִּיחַ
This causative form keeps the force of an outward push visible in the verse’s final image.
לִשְׁנִינָה
lishənīnāh
GROWS FROM
שנן
sh-n-n
Sharpen, whet.
The taunt comes from a root of sharpening, so disgrace takes the form of words with an edge. The same root can describe sharpening instruction: speech can impress sharply, or wound sharply.
ALSO GROWS
shānan: Sharpen, whet.
שָׁנַן
This is the root’s concrete image, giving the taunt its sense of words sharpened to cut.
veshinnantām: Teach them diligently; impress them sharply.
וְשִׁנַּנְתָּם
Deuteronomy 6:7 uses this form for teaching; here the same sharpness appears in speech that turns a people into a taunt.
THE PATTERN
When a people are driven from their place, their displacement can become a public sign that others see and speak about across nations.
And thou shalt become an astonishment, a proverb, and a byword, among all nations whither the LORD shall lead thee.Thou makest us a byword among the heathen, a shaking of the head among the people.And they shall fall by the edge of the sword, and shall be led away captive into all nations: and Jerusalem shall be trodden down of the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles be fulfilled.THE THREAD
If any of thine be driven out unto the outmost parts of heaven, from thence will the LORD thy God gather thee, and from thence will he fetch thee:“Driven out” uses the same Hebrew root as Jeremiah’s “drive them,” making this a direct word-level link. Deuteronomy places gathering beside that banishment, even from the farthest edge, widening the thread without erasing the severity of Jeremiah’s sentence.
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