What Does Jeremiah 31:27 Mean in the King James?
Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will sow the house of Israel and the house of Judah with the seed of man, and with the seed of beast.
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
God does not merely rebuild the two houses; the Hebrew word for “sow” shares its root with “seed,” so their restoration is life planted to multiply.
THE MEANING
This verse pictures renewal as fresh sowing: human descendants and animal life are planted into the two houses. Restoration means more than preserving their names; life can multiply within the community again.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
The lie that a devastated community has no future dissolves here: the verse imagines life being planted back into it.
THE ROOT
וְזָרַעְתִּי
wəzāraʿtî
GROWS FROM
זרע
To sow or scatter seed.
The verb “I will sow” and the noun “seed” share the consonants זרע (z-r-ʿ), joining the act of sowing with what is planted. Since the seed-word also means offspring, the image reaches from planting into generations.
ALSO GROWS
zeraʿ: Seed; also offspring or descendants.
זֶרַע
The verse places this noun beside the sowing verb, carrying the image from the act of planting into the life that grows from it.
zārûaʿ: Sown or planted.
זָרוּעַ
This form shows the root describing the state that follows sowing: life has been planted and can grow.
THE PATTERN
Renewal is pictured as sowing: life is planted again and becomes capable of multiplying.
And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth: and it was so.For, behold, I am for you, and I will turn unto you, and ye shall be tilled and sown:And he said, So is the kingdom of God, as if a man should cast seed into the ground;THE THREAD
And I will sow her unto me in the earth; and I will have mercy upon her that had not obtained mercy; and I will say to them which were not my people, Thou art my people; and they shall say, Thou art my God.Hosea uses the same root זרע (zāraʿ, “to sow”) when the people themselves are sown in the earth. Jeremiah’s image extends that planting to human and animal life within the two houses, presenting restoration as life planted to multiply again.
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