What Does Jeremiah 29:30 Mean in the King James?

Then came the word of the LORD unto Jeremiah, saying,

Jeremiah 29:30 · KJV

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 Hebrew word here can mean both a spoken word and a matter or thing, so what reaches Jeremiah is speech with something real at stake.

THE MEANING

God’s word reaches you as something that happens, not only as information: it arrives and speaks. What you receive is already moving toward expression.

THE ROOT

דְּבַר

dəvar

GROWS FROM

דבר

To speak; speech, a word, or a matter.

Davar can name both what is spoken and the matter itself. English separates a message from the thing it concerns, while this word holds them together: the word arrives already carrying substance.

ALSO GROWS

dābār: Word, matter, or thing.

דָּבָר

This noun is the word that reaches Jeremiah; its range gives the utterance substance, not just sound.

dibbēr: He spoke.

דִּבֵּר

This speaking form shares the root and echoes the verse’s closing “saying”: the word that arrives is already speech.

dəvārīm: Words or matters.

דְּבָרִים

The plural keeps speech and matters together, reinforcing that what is spoken can concern something real and consequential.

THE PATTERN

God’s word is active speech that brings what is hidden into form and reaches into the hearer.

And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.

Genesis 1:3 · KJVSpeech becomes visible reality: what is spoken takes form.

By the word of the LORD were the heavens made; and all the host of them by the breath of his mouth.

Psalm 33:6 · KJVThe word is the means by which the heavens take shape.

For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.

Hebrews 4:12 · KJVThe word reaches inward and brings hidden thoughts and intentions into view.

THE THREAD

But the word is very nigh unto thee, in thy mouth, and in thy heart, that thou mayest do it.

Deuteronomy 30:14 · KJV

The Hebrew word for “word” here and in Jeremiah is the same: ⁨דָּבָר⁩ (dābār), meaning word or matter. Deuteronomy shows it near, in the mouth and heart, ready to be done, while Jeremiah shows it arriving and speaking.

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