What Does Jeremiah 36:25 Mean in the King James?
Nevertheless Elnathan and Delaiah and Gemariah had made intercession to the king that he would not burn the roll: but he would not hear them.
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 intercession begins as an encounter: the plea meets the king’s intended destruction, though he refuses to let it change his course.
THE MEANING
The scene puts you beside a threatened word: three people meet power with a plea, and the person who can stop the fire refuses to receive them. Elnathan (אֶלְנָתָן, ʾEl-nātān, “God has given”), Delaiah (דְּלָיָהוּ, Dəlāyāhû, “Yah has drawn out”), and Gemariah (גְּמַרְיָהוּ, Gəmaryāhû, “Yah has completed”) carry giving, drawing out, and completion into this moment of refusal.
THE ROOT
הִפְגִּיעוּ
hipgîʿû
GROWS FROM
פגע
p-g-ʿ
Meet, encounter, or come upon; in this verb form, entreat or intercede.
“made intercession” in this verse is hipgîʿû. פגע is the root of meeting or encountering; in this form, the verb means to entreat or intercede. The officials’ plea is an encounter placed in front of the king’s decision, their intervention meets the act before it reaches the scroll.
ALSO GROWS
pāgaʿ: Meet, encounter, or come upon.
פָּגַע
This ordinary sense is the root beneath the officials’ intercession: they meet the king with a plea.
hipgîaʿ: Entreat, intercede, or make an appeal.
הִפְגִּיעַ
This related form names the act of bringing a plea before someone who can intervene.
שָׁמַע
shāmaʿ
GROWS FROM
שמע
sh-m-ʿ
Hear, listen, or heed.
Here “hear” is שָׁמַע (shāmaʿ): listening that can become heed and response. The line says the king would not hear them, so the failure is not the absence of sound but the refusal of reception.
ALSO GROWS
šəmaʿ: Hear, listen, or heed.
שְׁמַע
This familiar form carries hearing toward response, showing what the king withholds from the plea.
šəmûʿāh: Report, tidings, or something heard.
שְׁמוּעָה
This branch names what reaches a listener as a report; the king refuses to receive even their direct appeal.
THE PATTERN
A plea can meet destructive power, yet a hearer who refuses response can let the harm proceed.
But when Pharaoh saw that there was respite, he hardened his heart, and hearkened not unto them; as the LORD had said.But they refused to hearken, and pulled away the shoulder, and stopped their ears, that they should not hear.Then they cried out with a loud voice, and stopped their ears, and ran upon him with one accord,THE THREAD
Therefore will I divide him a portion with the great, and he shall divide the spoil with the strong; because he hath poured out his soul unto death: and he was numbered with the transgressors; and he bare the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors.Isaiah’s יַפְגִּיעַ (yapgîaʿ, “he intercedes”) shares the root פגע (p-g-ʿ, “meet, encounter”) with Jeremiah’s הִפְגִּיעוּ (hipgîʿû, “they interceded”). Jeremiah shows this encounter aimed at preventing the scroll’s destruction; Isaiah uses the same root for interceding on behalf of those in rebellion.
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