What Does Jeremiah 35:3 Mean in the King James?

Then I took Jaazaniah the son of Jeremiah, the son of Habaziniah, and his brethren, and all his sons, and the whole house of the Rechabites;

Jeremiah 35:3 · KJV

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THE KEY

In Hebrew, “sons” belongs to the root “to build,” so the gathered family appears as a house being built forward across generations.

THE MEANING

You are not only one name: you stand within a house shaped by kinship across generations. The people tied to your life form part of a shared structure that carries identity forward.

THE ROOT

בָּנָיו

bānāv

GROWS FROM

בנה

to build, establish, or build up

The Hebrew word for “sons” belongs to the root banah, “to build.” Beside “the whole house,” it makes lineage sound like a house being built forward through its members.

ALSO GROWS

banah: to build

בָּנָה

This verb names the building action carried in the word for sons.

binyan: building, structure

בִּנְיָן

This noun shares the root and gives the verse’s family language an architectural dimension.

יַאֲזַנְיָהוּ

Yaʿazanyāhû

GROWS FROM

אזן

to hear, listen, or give ear

Jaazaniah’s name carries the meaning “Yah hears.” English leaves that meaning opaque, while Hebrew lets this gathering begin under a name of listening.

ALSO GROWS

ʾōzen: ear

אֹזֶן

This branch makes hearing concrete in the body and shares the root carried in the name.

heʾĕzîn: to listen, give ear

הֶאֱזִין

This verb unfolds hearing as active attention, the quality compressed in “Yah hears.”

רֵכָבִים

rēḵāḇîm

GROWS FROM

רכב

to ride or mount

“Rechabites” in this verse is rēḵāḇîm. The name Rechab belongs to the Hebrew root of riding, with branches for both rider and conveyance. Set beside “house” and “sons,” this lineage carries movement as well as structure.

ALSO GROWS

rōḵēḇ: rider, one who rides

רֹכֵב

This branch carries the root’s image of a person in motion.

reḵeḇ: chariot, riding vehicle

רֶכֶב

This branch names what carries a rider, extending the root’s movement image.

THE PATTERN

A household is treated as a gathered whole whose identity is carried through its members.

And the LORD said unto Noah, Come thou and all thy house into the ark; for thee have I seen righteous before me in this generation.

Genesis 7:1 · KJVNoah’s house is gathered together as one household entering the ark.

And if it seem evil unto you to serve the LORD, choose you this day whom ye will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD.

Joshua 24:15 · KJVThe house speaks with a shared identity through the words “me and my house.”

And they said, Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house.

Acts 16:31 · KJVThe promise names the house alongside the individual, holding the household together in one frame.

THE THREAD

The eyes of the LORD are upon the righteous, and his ears are open unto their cry.

Psalm 34:15 · KJV

Jaazaniah’s name carries the root of hearing, and Psalm 34:15 gives that compressed meaning a bodily image: the LORD’s ears are turned toward a cry. What is hidden in one person’s name opens into a picture of divine listening.

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