What Does Jeremiah 27:19 Mean in the King James?

For thus saith the LORD of hosts concerning the pillars, and concerning the sea, and concerning the bases, and concerning the residue of the vessels that remain in this city,

Jeremiah 27:19 · 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.

This verse in the Selah Decoded Version

THE KEY

The vessels are called both the portion left over and the things that remain, making “left behind” a doubled condition, not a promise of permanence.

THE MEANING

What remains before you is not automatically permanent; being left in place describes its present condition, not all that can be spoken over it. The verse names even pillars, the sea, bases, and leftover vessels as things still within the LORD’s word.

WHAT THIS UNDOES

If something has survived until now, it must be secure and settled.

THE ROOT

יֶתֶר

yether

GROWS FROM

י־ת־ר

y-t-r

To remain over, be left over, or exceed.

The Hebrew calls this the yether (⁨יֶתֶר⁩, “the portion left over”) of the vessels. The English words “residue” and “remain” can sound like one repetition, but the Hebrew uses a root for what is over and another for the things still remaining.

ALSO GROWS

yathar: To remain over, be left, or be in excess.

יָתַר

This verb gives “residue” its sense of what is still over after other parts are gone.

yithron: Surplus, advantage, or gain.

יִתְרוֹן

The same root can name what exceeds the immediate measure; here it names what is left beyond what has been removed.

הַנִּשְׁאָרִים

hanish'arim

GROWS FROM

ש־א־ר

sh-ʾ-r

To be left over, remain, or survive.

Hanish’arim (⁨הַנִּשְׁאָרִים⁩, “the ones that remain”) describes a present state of being left. The same root names a she’erit (⁨שְׁאֵרִית⁩, “remnant”), connecting these vessels with what remains after loss without making their current place permanent.

ALSO GROWS

she'erit: Remnant; what remains.

שְׁאֵרִית

This noun names the remainder as a remnant, the same family of meaning carried by the vessels that remain.

she'ar: Remainder; what is left over.

שְׁאָר

This form makes the shared idea explicit: something remains after something else is gone.

THE PATTERN

Being left behind does not place something beyond the next movement of the divine word.

For though thy people Israel be as the sand of the sea, yet a remnant of them shall return: the consumption decreed shall overflow with righteousness.

Isaiah 10:22 · KJVThe verse names a remnant that returns, showing that what remains can still move into what comes next.

For thus saith the LORD of hosts; Yet once, it is a little while, and I will shake the heavens, and the earth, and the sea, and the dry land;

Haggai 2:6 · KJVEven the sea and the earth are named among things that can be shaken.

And this word, Yet once more, signifieth the removing of those things that are shaken, as of things that are made, that those things which cannot be shaken may remain.

Hebrews 12:27 · KJVRemoval makes clear that what remains is distinguished through movement, not simply assumed to be fixed.

THE THREAD

For though thy people Israel be as the sand of the sea, yet a remnant of them shall return: the consumption decreed shall overflow with righteousness.

Isaiah 10:22 · KJV

The Hebrew word for “remnant” here is she’ar (⁨שְׁאָר⁩, “what remains”), from the same ⁨ש־א־ר⁩ (sh-ʾ-r) root as the vessels “that remain.” The shared root links what survives with the possibility of return: remaining can mark the start of movement, not its end.

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