What Does Jeremiah 32:36 Mean in the King James?

And now therefore thus saith the LORD, the God of Israel, concerning this city, whereof ye say, It shall be delivered into the hand of the king of Babylon by the sword, and by the famine, and by the pestilence;

Jeremiah 32:36 · KJV

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THE KEY

The city’s “delivery” is a giving-over: the Hebrew root holds being given and being placed in another hand together.

THE MEANING

The verse holds the city’s expected handover to Babylon before you: sword, famine, and pestilence are named as its means. Nothing softens the violence, hunger, and disease in this sentence.

THE ROOT

נִתְּנָה

nittənāh

GROWS FROM

נ־ת־ן

n-t-n

to give, place, or set

Beneath “delivered” stands ⁨נִתְּנָה⁩, “is given,” from the root of giving and placing. The word holds transfer and placement together: the city is placed into Babylon’s hand, and the sentence names the forceful means of that handover.

ALSO GROWS

give: give, grant, or hand over

נָתַן

This is the root’s basic sense, present in the city being given into Babylon’s hand.

set: place or set in position

נָתַן

The same root can describe placement; it makes the handover here feel like a change in where the city is held.

THE PATTERN

A handover makes a transfer of power visible while naming what follows from it.

And afterward, saith the LORD, I will deliver Zedekiah king of Judah, and his servants, and the people, and such as are left in this city from the pestilence, from the sword, and from the famine, into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, and into the hand of their enemies, and into the hand of those that seek their life: and he shall smite them with the edge of the sword; he shall not spare them, neither have pity, nor have mercy.

Jeremiah 21:7 · KJVThe handover is explicit, and the verse names both the receiving power and the violence that follows.

Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves:

Romans 1:24 · KJV“Gave them up” describes a transfer into the consequences that follow.

Him, being delivered by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God, ye have taken, and by wicked hands have crucified and slain:

Acts 2:23 · KJVThe verse holds divine purpose and the violence of human hands in the same account of a delivery.

THE THREAD

And God set them in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth,

Genesis 1:17 · KJV

The verb translated “set” is another form of ⁨נתן⁩, the same give-and-place root beneath “delivered.” That shared seed describes both lights placed in the heavens and this city placed into Babylon’s hand; the surrounding words tell what each placement means.

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