What Does Jeremiah 29:3 Mean in the King James?
By the hand of Elasah the son of Shaphan, and Gemariah the son of Hilkiah, (whom Zedekiah king of Judah sent unto Babylon to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon) 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
The word translated “sent” is shalach, send forth, release, so the verse’s hidden action is a message set in motion across distance.
THE MEANING
A message can reach you through human hands, even from a place or authority far away. Once sent, it is released into motion; the boundary between home and exile does not stop it from arriving.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
The lie this undoes is that distance or displacement makes you unreachable: the verse shows a message crossing that divide.
THE ROOT
שָׁלַח
shalach
GROWS FROM
שלח
To send forth, release, or stretch out.
English “sent” can sound like a completed errand, but this root carries the motion of release: something is let go and travels outward. Its branches connect sending with a channel that extends provision and with water that is itself called “Sent.”
ALSO GROWS
shilluach: Sending away or dismissal.
שִׁלּוּחַ
This branch makes the release within the sending visible: what is dispatched is let go from its starting place.
Shiloach: Sent; the name Siloam is interpreted as “Sent.”
שִׁלֹחַ
The name of the water channel preserves the same movement: what is sent becomes a passage through which something reaches another place.
shulchan: Table.
שֻׁלְחָן
The table carries the sense of provision extended outward, linking the root’s sending with something placed within reach.
THE PATTERN
A word travels through a sent messenger into the place where it must be heard.
Come now therefore, and I will send thee unto Pharaoh, that thou mayest bring forth my people the children of Israel out of Egypt.But the LORD said unto me, Say not, I am a child: for thou shalt go to all that I shall send thee, and whatsoever I command thee thou shalt speak.Then said Jesus to them again, Peace be unto you: as my Father hath sent me, even so send I you.THE THREAD
Come now therefore, and I will send thee unto Pharaoh, that thou mayest bring forth my people the children of Israel out of Egypt.Exodus 3:10 uses the same Hebrew root, שָׁלַח (shalach, to send or release): Moses is sent toward Pharaoh, and the purpose is to bring the people out. Here, that same motion carries a message into Babylon; the root holds the outward sending, while each passage gives its purpose.
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