What Does Jeremiah 27:21 Mean in the King James?

Yea, thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, concerning the vessels that remain in the house of the LORD, and in the house of the king of Judah and of Jerusalem;

Jeremiah 27:21 · KJV

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King James Version The King James Version, first published in 1611. Selah Verse shows the standard text.

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THE KEY

In Hebrew, what “remains” carries the shape of what has been left behind.

THE MEANING

The verse draws your eye to what is still in place: vessels in the LORD’s house and in the king’s house in Jerusalem. It names those remaining things within the LORD’s address, so their location does not put them beyond what is being spoken now.

THE ROOT

נִשְׁאָרִים

nish’arim

GROWS FROM

שׁאר

To remain or be left over.

The form here names the vessels as those left after something has been removed, giving “remain” the texture of a remainder rather than mere stillness. This same root names a remnant, so the vessels belong to a language of what is left over.

ALSO GROWS

she’erit: What is left over.

שְׁאֵרִית

The same root turns the state of being left into the noun “remnant,” revealing the vessels as part of what remains.

she’ar: The rest, or what remains.

שְׁאָר

This branch makes explicit the idea carried by the vessels: what is still there is a remainder.

THE PATTERN

Scripture keeps the remnant visible as part of an unfolding story.

And the remnant that is escaped of the house of Judah shall again take root downward, and bear fruit upward:

Isaiah 37:31 · KJVThe remnant named here does more than endure: it takes root and bears fruit.

And the remnant of Jacob shall be in the midst of many people as a dew from the LORD, as the showers upon the grass, that tarrieth not for man, nor waiteth for the sons of men.

Micah 5:7 · KJVThe remnant remains present among many peoples, pictured as dew that arrives without human control.

Even so then at this present time also there is a remnant according to the election of grace.

Romans 11:5 · KJVEven in the present, the remnant is named as part of a larger continuing story.

THE THREAD

And the remnant that is escaped of the house of Judah shall again take root downward, and bear fruit upward:

Isaiah 37:31 · KJV

The Hebrew form ⁨נִשְׁאָרָה⁩ (nish’arah, “that remains”) in Isaiah comes from ⁨שׁאר⁩ (sha’ar, “remain or be left over”), the same root behind the vessels “that remain” here. Isaiah’s image opens “remain” as a continuing condition that can take root and bear fruit.

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