What Does Jeremiah 33:1 Mean in the King James?
Moreover the word of the LORD came unto Jeremiah the second time, while he was yet shut up in the court of the prison, 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 reaches Jeremiah without first opening the prison.
THE MEANING
The word of the LORD reaches Jeremiah while he remains confined; the address comes inside the confinement, not after it ends. The verse holds both realities together: the boundary remains, and the word arrives again.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
It undoes the belief that being trapped means being unreachable, or that the word can come only after circumstances open.
THE ROOT
דְּבַר
dᵊvar
GROWS FROM
ד־ב־ר
To speak; a word, matter, or affair.
In Hebrew, dābār can name both speech and a matter at hand. So the arriving word is more than information: it becomes the matter present to Jeremiah inside the confinement that remains.
ALSO GROWS
dibbēr: Speak, declare.
דִּבֵּר
The word that reaches Jeremiah is an address directed to him, not merely a written object.
dābār: Word, matter, affair.
דָּבָר
The shared word-and-matter sense lets the divine address enter Jeremiah’s concrete situation.
עָצוּר
ʿāṣūr
GROWS FROM
ע־צ־ר
To restrain, hold back, or stop.
“shut up” in this verse is ʿāṣūr. The Hebrew describes Jeremiah as restrained, keeping the force of confinement in view. The word arrives within that limit, not after it disappears.
ALSO GROWS
ʿāṣar: Restrain, hold back, stop.
עָצַר
This verbal root pictures the force holding Jeremiah within limits.
ʿāṣūr: Restrained, confined.
עָצוּר
This form names Jeremiah’s state as the word reaches him.
THE PATTERN
God’s word reaches human need and carries its purpose even where circumstances impose limits.
He sent his word, and healed them, and delivered them from their destructions.So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it.Where in I suffer trouble, as an evil doer, even unto bonds; but the word of God is not bound.THE THREAD
Then I said, I will not make mention of him, nor speak any more in his name. But his word was in mine heart as a burning fire shut up in my bones, and I was weary with forbearing, and I could not stay.Both verses use דָּבָר (dābār), “word” or “matter.” Here Jeremiah is confined as the word reaches him; there, the word is like fire shut within him, the same root turns the image of enclosure around.
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