What Does Jeremiah 28:12 Mean in the King James?
Then the word of the LORD came unto Jeremiah the prophet, after that Hananiah the prophet had broken the yoke from off the neck of the prophet Jeremiah, saying,
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
A broken symbol can look like freedom while the word that follows reveals the burden still holding.
THE MEANING
This verse meets you in the gap between a dramatic change and actual release: a visible burden may be broken while its hold remains. The word that follows names the difference, so what you can see is not the whole truth of what governs you.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
It undoes the belief that whatever looks broken has lost its power. A symbol can fall while the burden behind it remains.
THE ROOT
דָּבָר
dāḇār
GROWS FROM
ד־ב־ר
d-b-r
To speak or declare; the noun can mean a word, matter, or thing.
Hebrew’s davar can name both a spoken word and the matter at hand. Here, the word comes after the yoke is broken: the visible act does not interpret itself; the utterance names what the break means.
ALSO GROWS
dibber: He spoke or declared.
דִּבֵּר
The arriving word is an act of speech that answers the broken yoke and gives the event its meaning.
davar: A word, matter, or thing.
דָּבָר
The same word can point to speech and to the matter being spoken about, binding the message to the reality of the burden.
THE PATTERN
A yoke is truly broken when the burden it carries is gone; a shattered sign alone cannot certify freedom.
Go and tell Hananiah, saying, Thus saith the LORD; Thou hast broken the yokes of wood; but thou shalt make for them yokes of iron.And it shall come to pass in that day, that his burden shall be taken away from off thy shoulder, and his yoke from off thy neck, and the yoke shall be destroyed because of the anointing.Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage.THE THREAD
Go and tell Hananiah, saying, Thus saith the LORD; Thou hast broken the yokes of wood; but thou shalt make for them yokes of iron.The same Hebrew root, שבר (sh-b-r), meaning “break,” appears in both verses. The next verse turns the broken wooden yoke into iron ones, showing that the break changes the sign while the burden remains.
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