What Does Jeremiah 27:22 Mean in the King James?
They shall be carried to Babylon, and there shall they be until the day that I visit them, saith the LORD; then will I bring them up, and restore them to this place.
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
What is carried away remains within the LORD’s appointed attention, and that attention turns displacement toward return.
THE MEANING
The verse speaks into the experience of what is taken from its place: absence remains real, but it is held inside an “until,” not treated as final. The movement runs from the LORD’s visitation to being brought up and returned to this place.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
Being carried away means being beyond restoration.
THE ROOT
פָּקַד
paqad
GROWS FROM
פקד
p-q-d
Attend to, appoint, muster, or reckon; in this verse, visit with deliberate attention.
The root can mean more than arriving for a visit: it carries the sense of attending to or appointing something. The promised “day” is a moment of directed notice, when what has been carried away is not forgotten.
ALSO GROWS
pequddah: Appointment, charge, oversight, or visitation.
פְּקֻדָּה
This branch makes the visitation feel appointed and purposeful, not incidental.
paqīd: Officer or overseer.
פָּקִיד
The same root can name one entrusted with oversight, bringing responsibility and active regard into the word “visit.”
הַעֲלִיתִים
ha'alitim
GROWS FROM
עלה
ʿ-l-h
Rise, go up, or ascend; in the causative form, bring up or raise.
“bring them up” in this verse is ha'alitim. The Hebrew verb places upward movement inside the promise: they are brought up, then returned. That sequence gives restoration the shape of a rising followed by a return to place.
ALSO GROWS
ma'alah: Ascent, step, or degree.
מַעֲלָה
This branch preserves the root’s sense of upward movement within “bring them up.”
olah: Burnt offering.
עֹלָה
Its name is connected with what rises or goes up, echoing the upward movement in the verse.
שׁוּב
shuv
GROWS FROM
שוב
sh-w-b
Turn back or return; in the causative form, bring back or restore.
“restore” in this verse is shuv. The verse’s restoration is expressed as a bringing back: the return reverses the movement away from “this place.” The root holds the turning back within the promise itself.
ALSO GROWS
teshuvah: Return or turning back.
תְּשׁוּבָה
This branch names the return as a turning, the movement carried by “restore.”
meshiv: One who brings back or restores.
מֵשִׁיב
This causative form shows how the root can describe someone actively turning another back toward a place.
THE PATTERN
The LORD’s visitation is active regard that sees what is displaced and sets deliverance or return in motion.
And Joseph said unto his brethren, I die: and God will surely visit you, and bring you out of this land unto the land which he sware to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.And the people believed: and when they heard that the LORD had visited the children of Israel, and that he had looked upon their affliction, then they bowed their heads and worshipped.Blessed be the Lord God of Israel; for he hath visited and redeemed his people,THE THREAD
For thus saith the LORD, That after seventy years be accomplished at Babylon I will visit you, and perform my good word toward you, in causing you to return to this place.This verse repeats פקד (paqad, attend or visit) and שוב (shuv, return) in the same sequence: visitation, then return. The shared wording makes the end of displacement a promised movement back to this place.
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