What Does Jeremiah 28:16 Mean in the King James?
Therefore thus saith the LORD; Behold, I will cast thee from off the face of the earth: this year thou shalt die, because thou hast taught rebellion against the LORD.
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
The verse makes rebellion directional: turning away from the LORD is answered by being sent away from the face of the ground.
THE MEANING
The verse names teaching that turns hearers from the LORD as rebellion. It speaks its consequence without disguise: “this year thou shalt die.” Its severity stays visible.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
The belief that rebellion is only private is undone: this verse names teaching it as an offense with grave consequences.
THE ROOT
סָרָה
sārāh
GROWS FROM
סור
Turn aside, depart, or withdraw.
The word for rebellion carries the shape of turning away. It names a direction of departure from the LORD, not merely a label for wrongdoing.
ALSO GROWS
sûr: Turn aside; depart.
סוּר
This verb is the root behind סָרָה, making the accusation a matter of turning away.
hēsîr: Remove; take away.
הֵסִיר
This form of the same root shows departure as removal from a place, echoing the verse’s language of being sent away.
מְשַׁלֵּחֲךָ
meshallĕḥakha
GROWS FROM
שלח
Send forth, release, or dispatch.
“cast thee” in this verse is meshallĕḥakha. The Hebrew uses a form of שָׁלַח, “send” or “release.” Here the sending is severe: it means removal from the face of the earth, with death named plainly as its consequence.
ALSO GROWS
shālûaḥ: Sent; one who is sent.
שָׁלוּחַ
This form keeps the basic sense of being sent forth that appears in the verse’s sentence.
shillûaḥ: Sending away; dismissal.
שִׁלּוּחַ
This branch makes the removal in the verse audible within the same root of sending.
הָאֲדָמָה
ha’adamah
GROWS FROM
אדם
Ground or soil, linked with the human being אָדָם.
The phrase “face of the earth” speaks of the ground itself. אָדָם (’ādām, human) and אֲדָמָה (’adāmāh, ground) share their consonants, tying human life to the soil from which it comes.
ALSO GROWS
’ādām: Human; earthling.
אָדָם
Its shared consonants with אֲדָמָה link the human being with the ground named in the sentence.
’adāmāh: Ground; soil.
אֲדָמָה
This is the word in the verse: the place from whose face Hananiah is sent away.
THE PATTERN
Speech that turns hearers away from the LORD is treated as an active departure whose consequences reach beyond the speaker.
And that prophet, or that dreamer of dreams, shall be put to death; because he hath spoken to turn you away from the LORD your God, which brought you out of the land of Egypt, and redeemed you out of the house of bondage, to thrust thee out of the way which the LORD thy God commanded thee to walk in. So shalt thou put the evil away from the midst of thee.And turn ye not aside: for then should ye go after vain things, which cannot profit nor deliver; for they are vain.Also of your own selves shall men arise, speaking perverse things, to draw away disciples after them.THE THREAD
And turn ye not aside: for then should ye go after vain things, which cannot profit nor deliver; for they are vain.Jeremiah’s “rebellion” is סָרָה (sārāh, turning aside), from סוּר (sûr, to turn aside); Samuel uses the same root in “turn ye not aside.” The shared verb makes rebellion a direction of departure, and Jeremiah’s sentence names its consequence with stark force.
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