What Does Jeremiah 33:2 Mean in the King James?
Thus saith the LORD the maker thereof, the LORD that formed it, to establish it; the LORD is his name;
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 LORD’s name is disclosed as a nature: the maker shapes what is made toward a settled, standing form.
THE MEANING
The speaker identifies himself through what he does: he makes, shapes, and brings what he shapes into firmness. The work is not left as a loose beginning; its forming is ordered toward a place to stand. The LORD’s name meets you now as creative work that carries stability within its purpose.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
The lie that what is being formed must remain unstable or purposeless dissolves here: formation is joined to establishing.
THE ROOT
יֹצֵר
yotser
GROWS FROM
יצר
y-ts-r
To form, shape, or fashion.
“formed” in this verse is yotser. The root holds the shaped object and the inward frame together: יוֹצֵר (yotser, former or potter) names the shaper, while יֵצֶר (yetser, frame or inclination) can name what is shaped within. The LORD’s forming is deliberate shaping, not mere origination.
ALSO GROWS
yotser: One who forms or shapes.
יוֹצֵר
The verse presents the LORD as the one actively shaping what is made.
yetser: A formed frame, disposition, or inclination.
יֵצֶר
The same root can describe the shaping of an inner disposition as well as an outer form.
לְהָכִינָהּ
lehakhinah
GROWS FROM
כון
k-w-n
To become firm, be set in place, or establish.
This form rendered “to establish” comes from a root of becoming firm or being set in place. Its branches reach from preparation to a settled place; the shaped thing is directed toward having a place to stand.
ALSO GROWS
hekin: To prepare or make ready.
הֵכִין
The establishing of the formed thing includes bringing it into readiness.
makon: A settled place or dwelling.
מָכוֹן
The root’s sense of firmness opens the image of what has been shaped finding a place to stand.
עֹשֵׂה
ʿoseh
GROWS FROM
עשה
ʿ-s-h
To make or do.
“maker” in this verse is ʿoseh. Asah covers both making and doing: מַעֲשֶׂה (maʿaseh, work or deed) is the work, while עָשׂוּי (ʿasuy, made or done) is what has been made. Beside forming and establishing, it gives the movement of this name’s nature: bring forth, shape, set in firmness.
ALSO GROWS
maʿaseh: A work, act, or deed.
מַעֲשֶׂה
The maker is also known through the work brought into being.
ʿasuy: What has been made or done.
עָשׂוּי
The branch emphasizes the result of making, which the verse then describes as formed and established.
THE PATTERN
What the LORD forms is brought toward life, firmness, and a place to stand.
And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.Thy faithfulness is unto all generations: thou hast established the earth, and it abideth.But the God of all grace, who hath called us unto his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after that ye have suffered a while, make you perfect, stablish, strengthen, settle you.THE THREAD
For thus saith the LORD that created the heavens; God himself that formed the earth and made it; he hath established it, he created it not in vain, he formed it to be inhabited: I am the LORD; and there is none else.Isaiah uses יצר (yatsar, to form or shape) for “formed” and כון (kun, to establish or set firm) for “established.” It names the aim as being inhabited, opening the shaping in Jeremiah as movement toward a place where life can dwell.
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