What Does Jeremiah 25:21 Mean in the King James?
Edom, and Moab, and the children of Ammon,
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
Edom’s name carries red, human, and ground in one consonantal family, placing distinct peoples on shared ground.
THE MEANING
This line places Edom, Moab, and Ammon within the judgment cup named in the surrounding verses. Their names remain distinct, while Edom echoes a Hebrew word-family that joins the human being to the ground beneath all people.
THE ROOT
אֱדוֹם
ʾĕḏôm
GROWS FROM
אדם
Red; this consonantal family also joins the human being to the ground.
The consonants אדם appear in אָדֹם (ʾādōm, red), אָדָם (ʾādām, human being), and אֲדָמָה (ʾăḏāmāh, ground). Edom’s name carries that red-earth and ground-born resonance into a list of peoples who remain distinct yet share the same human ground.
ALSO GROWS
ʾādōm: Red or ruddy.
אָדֹם
This is the color-word directly associated with Edom’s name, keeping the name’s red meaning audible.
ʾādām: Human being; the ground-being.
אָדָם
Its shared consonants connect Edom’s name with the word for humanity.
ʾăḏāmāh: Ground, soil.
אֲדָמָה
Its shared consonants bring the name back to the ground from which the human being is formed.
THE PATTERN
The cup of judgment passes from one named people to another until no people stands outside its reach.
Then took I the cup at the LORD’s hand, and made all the nations to drink, unto whom the LORD had sent me:For in the hand of the LORD there is a cup, and the wine is red; it is full of mixture; and he poureth out of the same: but the dregs thereof, all the wicked of the earth shall wring them out, and drink them.The same shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is poured out without mixture into the cup of his indignation; and he shall be tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence of the holy angels, and in the presence of the Lamb:THE THREAD
And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.Genesis places אָדָם (ʾādām, human being) beside אֲדָמָה (ʾăḏāmāh, ground), words joined by the consonants אדם. Edom carries that same word-family, so the list of peoples quietly echoes the shared ground from which humanity is formed.
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