What Does Jeremiah 32:27 Mean in the King James?
Behold, I am the LORD, the God of all flesh: is there any thing too hard for me?
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
What feels impossible is named with the same Hebrew root as a wonder: beyond your reach does not mean beyond God’s.
THE MEANING
You stand within the reach of the God of all flesh, and the verse asks whether anything is beyond him. The word translated “too hard” also carries the sense of something wondrous or beyond the ordinary. The question shifts the measure of possibility from what you can do to what is possible before God.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
The verse undoes the belief that whatever lies beyond your ability must also lie beyond God’s reach.
THE ROOT
יִפָּלֵא
yippale
GROWS FROM
פלא
To be extraordinary or wondrous; in this form, to be beyond one’s ability or too difficult.
“too hard” in this verse is yippale. The Hebrew word yippale comes from the same root as words for wonders. The language lets difficulty and wonder meet: what exceeds human ability can also be described as extraordinary.
ALSO GROWS
pele: A wonder or marvel.
פֶּלֶא
This noun shows the root’s sense of the extraordinary behind the question about what is too hard.
nifla’ot: Wonders or marvelous acts.
נִפְלָאוֹת
This plural form uses the same root for works that exceed the ordinary, echoing the possibility held open in Jeremiah’s question.
THE PATTERN
What exceeds human ability does not exceed God’s reach.
Is any thing too hard for the LORD? At the time appointed I will return unto thee, according to the time of life, and Sarah shall have a son.Thou art the God that doest wonders: thou hast declared thy strength among the people.For with God nothing shall be impossible.THE THREAD
Thus saith the LORD of hosts; If it be marvellous in the eyes of the remnant of this people in these days, should it also be marvellous in mine eyes? saith the LORD of hosts.Zechariah uses the same root, פלא (pala, to be wondrous or beyond ordinary measure), for what seems marvelous to people and asks whether it is marvelous to God. Jeremiah’s question opens the same gap between human limits and God’s measure.
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