What Does Jeremiah 36:15 Mean in the King James?
And they said unto him, Sit down now, and read it in our ears. So Baruch read it in their ears.
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 for “read” also means “call aloud,” so the written word enters shared hearing as a voice.
THE MEANING
A written message becomes a shared event when one voice carries it into the hearers’ awareness. The repeated phrase “in our ears” centers listening as a direct encounter with the word. The response remains open; the act of hearing is clear.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
A text is not limited to private, silent reading; another person’s voice can carry it into shared hearing.
THE ROOT
קָרָא
qārāʾ
GROWS FROM
קרא
q-r-ʾ
Call out, summon, proclaim; when the object is a text, read aloud.
“read” in this verse is qārāʾ. The root opens reading onto calling and proclamation: the text is sounded into the listeners’ presence. The repeated “in our ears” makes that shared reception the center of the verse.
ALSO GROWS
qĕrîʾāh: A calling or reading aloud.
קְרִיאָה
It keeps reading tied to spoken words that reach listeners.
miqrāʾ: A summoned gathering or public reading.
מִקְרָא
This branch links voiced words with people gathered to hear them.
THE PATTERN
A written word becomes shared by being voiced into a community’s hearing.
When all Israel is come to appear before the LORD thy God in the place which he shall choose, thou shalt read this law before all Israel in their hearing.And he read therein before the street that was before the water gate from the morning until midday, before the men and the women, and those that could understand; and the ears of all the people were attentive unto the book of the law.So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.THE THREAD
When all Israel is come to appear before the LORD thy God in the place which he shall choose, thou shalt read this law before all Israel in their hearing.Both verses use קרא (qārāʾ, “call aloud; read”) for reading the text. Deuteronomy makes explicit the shared hearing that Jeremiah’s repeated phrase brings to the foreground.
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