What Does Jeremiah 33:19 Mean in the King James?

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

Jeremiah 33:19 · 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 translated “word” can also mean “matter” or “thing,” so the LORD’s speech arrives with the weight of something real.

THE MEANING

The verse places you before a word that arrives and speaks, rather than an idea you have to manufacture. Hebrew dāḇār (⁨דָּבָר⁩, “word” or “matter”) lets that address carry the sense of an event with substance in your life now.

WHAT THIS UNDOES

It undoes the assumption that divine speech is only an inward idea without reality: the verse presents it as an address that arrives and takes place.

THE ROOT

דְּבַר

devar

GROWS FROM

ד־ב־ר

d-b-r

The root carries the sense of speaking; the noun can name both a spoken word and a matter or thing.

Hebrew dāḇār can mean a spoken word and a matter or thing, so “word” has more than the feel of information. Here, speech is an event addressed to Jeremiah, and the noun lets the matter itself be heard within the word.

ALSO GROWS

dibber: to speak

דִּבֵּר

This verb makes the spoken dimension of dāḇār audible: the word in this verse is speech addressed to someone.

dĕvārîm: words, matters, or things

דְּבָרִים

The plural preserves the word-and-matter range, opening the possibility that what is spoken is also something taking place.

וַיְהִי

wayhi

GROWS FROM

ה־י־ה

h-y-h

To be, become, or happen.

The form behind “came” is wayhi, from hāyâ, a root whose range includes being, becoming, and happening. Alongside the English image of arrival, the Hebrew form lets the address register as an event taking place for Jeremiah.

ALSO GROWS

hāyâ: to be, become, or happen

הָיָה

This basic form shows the event-like sense carried by the verb in the verse.

yihyeh: will be or will happen

יִהְיֶה

This related form keeps the root’s sense of becoming or taking place in view.

THE PATTERN

The LORD’s word arrives as an event of address, meeting a person where they are.

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

Jeremiah 1:4 · KJVThe word arrives to Jeremiah as direct address, just as it does in the verse at hand.

The word of the LORD came expressly unto Ezekiel the priest, the son of Buzi, in the land of the Chaldeans by the river Chebar; and the hand of the LORD was there upon him.

Ezekiel 1:3 · KJVThe arriving word meets Ezekiel in a particular place and becomes an immediate encounter.

Annas and Caiaphas being the high priests, the word of God came unto John the son of Zacharias in the wilderness.

Luke 3:2 · KJVThe same pattern continues as the word of God comes to John and addresses him.

THE THREAD

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 · KJV

Psalm 33:6 uses the same Hebrew root, dāḇār (⁨דָּבָר⁩, “word” or “matter”), and links the LORD’s word with the making of the heavens. Here, that word reaches a person and speaks: the same speech that bears on creation arrives as address.

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