What Does Jeremiah 36:28 Mean in the King James?
Take thee again another roll, and write in it all the former words that were in the first roll, which Jehoiakim the king of Judah hath burned.
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
A hand can burn the page without burning the word it carries.
THE MEANING
A destroyed record does not erase what it carries. What is burned from the page can be written again; its life is not bound to its first vessel. This verse speaks now wherever destruction is mistaken for the end of what is true.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
It undoes the belief that destroying the record can erase the words it carried.
THE ROOT
דְּבָרִים
devarim
GROWS FROM
דבר
To speak; a word, matter, or thing.
The words on the scroll belong to the same root as speech and matter. English can make them seem like marks trapped on a page, but the Hebrew keeps the written words connected to what is spoken and what is real.
ALSO GROWS
dibber: spoke; to speak
דִּבֵּר
The words that are written can also be spoken; burning their page does not silence the utterance.
davar: word, matter, or thing
דָּבָר
The root joins a word to the matter it carries, so destroying the written witness does not make that matter vanish.
THE PATTERN
Destroying the written witness does not extinguish the word it carries.
The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: but the word of our God shall stand for ever.Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away.Where in I suffer trouble, as an evil doer, even unto bonds; but the word of God is not bound.THE THREAD
Then the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah, after that the king had burned the roll, and the words which Baruch wrote at the mouth of Jeremiah, saying,Jeremiah 36:27 says the word of the LORD (דְּבַר־יְהוָה, devar-YHWH: the LORD’s word or matter) comes after the roll is burned. The same root underlies “words” here: the written record can be destroyed while the word still arrives.
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