What Does Jeremiah 28:6 Mean in the King James?
Even the prophet Jeremiah said, Amen: the LORD do so: the LORD perform thy words which thou hast prophesied, to bring again the vessels of the LORD’s house, and all that is carried away captive, from Babylon into 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
Jeremiah’s “Amen” voices a desire for the word to be made to stand, while the vessels and exiles are still named as things that must return.
THE MEANING
You can voice a real longing for what has been taken to come home. Saying “Amen” gives that longing its full weight, yet the verse leaves fulfillment with the LORD: the spoken words must stand and the carried-away must return. Hope here is candid, but it is not treated as already accomplished.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
Sincerely agreeing with a promise you want does not, by itself, prove that the LORD spoke it.
THE ROOT
אָמֵן
ʾāmēn
GROWS FROM
אמן
ʾ-m-n
To be firm or steady; to support and establish.
“Amen” carries the sense of firmness beneath its familiar use as assent. Jeremiah voices the hope plainly, but asks the LORD to make the words stand; his assent is not itself their fulfillment.
ALSO GROWS
ʾāman: To be firm, support, or confirm.
אָמַן
The verb gives “Amen” its sense of something held steady or made reliable.
ʾĕmūnāh: Trust; steadiness, something to lean your full weight on.
אֱמוּנָה
This branch connects assent with reliance: what is firm can bear trust.
ʾāmēn: Truly; so be it.
אָמֵן
The spoken affirmation echoes the root’s firmness, while the verse still asks the LORD to bring the hoped-for words into effect.
יָקֵם
yāqēm
GROWS FROM
קום
q-w-m
To rise, stand, or be established; in a causative form, to make stand or establish.
The Hebrew behind “perform thy words” pictures making the words stand. Jeremiah’s request is not only that the prophecy be spoken or affirmed, but that it become established in what happens.
ALSO GROWS
qūm: Rise; stand.
קוּם
The root’s basic movement gives “perform” the image of words standing in reality.
hēqīm: Raise up; establish.
הֵקִים
This causative form makes the link explicit: to establish is to cause something to stand.
הָשִׁיב
hāšīv
GROWS FROM
שוב
sh-w-b
To turn back or return.
“Bring again” comes from the root of returning. The verse holds the vessels and the exiles in one movement: what was carried away is to turn back to its place.
ALSO GROWS
šūv: Turn back; return.
שׁוּב
This is the root motion named in the verse’s hoped-for return from Babylon.
təšūvāh: Return; turning back.
תְּשׁוּבָה
This related word preserves the same movement of turning back, illuminating restoration as return rather than something added.
THE PATTERN
A spoken claim is established as true when it stands in what 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.And, behold, thou shalt be dumb, and not able to speak, until the day that these things shall be performed, because thou believest not my words, which shall be fulfilled in their season.THE THREAD
And unto the angel of the church of the Laodiceans write; These things saith the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of the creation of God;The Greek ἀμήν (amēn), “truly” or “so be it,” carries the same word as Hebrew אָמֵן (ʾāmēn), “firm” or “so be it.” Jeremiah voices “Amen” toward words he hopes will stand; Revelation calls the faithful and true witness “the Amen,” naming firmness itself.
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