What Does Jeremiah 28:2 Mean in the King James?
Thus speaketh the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, saying, I have broken the yoke of the king of Babylon.
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 voice invokes the LORD’s authority while declaring a release that the surrounding passage still puts to the test.
THE MEANING
Hananiah’s voice claims that the LORD has already shattered Babylon’s yoke. The wording gives release the weight of a completed act and places it under the LORD’s name. The surrounding exchange tests whether the claimed breaking becomes reality.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
A statement does not become the LORD’s word simply by using the LORD’s name; a declaration of release is still answerable to whether the yoke is actually broken.
THE ROOT
שָׁבַרְתִּי
shavarti
GROWS FROM
שבר
shabar
To shatter or break apart.
“broken” in this verse is shavarti. The root gives the claim the force of an actual rupture, not merely a loosening of pressure. The same seed names both the breaking and the breach it leaves, while the surrounding chapter asks whether this break is real.
ALSO GROWS
shever: Fracture, breach, or ruin.
שֶׁבֶר
This branch names the rupture itself, sharpening the force of the claim that the yoke is broken.
mishbar: Breaker, surf, or breaking wave.
מִשְׁבָּר
The image keeps the root’s force physical: what is broken meets the impact of a breaking force.
THE PATTERN
A claimed word from God is known by whether the promised reality comes to pass.
When a prophet speaketh in the name of the LORD, if the thing follow not, nor come to pass, that is the thing which the LORD hath not spoken, but the prophet hath spoken it presumptuously: thou shalt not be afraid of him.The prophet which prophesieth of peace, when the word of the prophet shall come to pass, then shall the prophet be known, that the LORD hath truly sent him.Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world.THE THREAD
For it shall come to pass in that day, saith the LORD of hosts, that I will break his yoke from off thy neck, and will burst thy bonds, and strangers shall no more serve themselves of him:Both verses use שבר (shabar), meaning “break apart,” for the yoke’s rupture. Jeremiah 30:8 joins that breaking to burst bonds and ended service, opening the image of a broken yoke into a fuller release from domination.
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