What Does Jeremiah 36:6 Mean in the King James?
Therefore go thou, and read in the roll, which thou hast written from my mouth, the words of the LORD in the ears of the people in the LORD’s house upon the fasting day: and also thou shalt read them in the ears of all Judah that come out of their cities.
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,” so the scroll’s reading is a voiced summons that gathers listeners.
THE MEANING
The word reaches you as voice carried into the ear, where what is written becomes present and shared. It meets those gathered in a place of worship, then extends outward to people arriving from their cities.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
It undoes the idea that a sacred word reaches people simply by existing on a page: here, it is voiced and heard.
THE ROOT
וְקָרָאתָ
veqara'ta
GROWS FROM
קרא
q-r-ʾ
To call, summon, or proclaim; in this verse, to read aloud.
English makes “read” sound like decoding marks on a page. Hebrew qara can also mean to call or proclaim, and miqra names a convocation: reading aloud carries the written word as a call to listeners.
ALSO GROWS
qara: Call, summon, proclaim, or read aloud.
קָרָא
The same verb can name both a spoken call and reading a written text, making this reading an audible act directed toward listeners.
miqra: Convocation or assembly.
מִקְרָא
This noun from the same root names a gathered assembly, echoing how a voiced reading brings a people together around the words.
qeri'ah: Reading or recitation.
קְרִיאָה
This branch keeps the act of reading tied to vocal recitation, joining the written scroll to the ears that receive it.
THE PATTERN
A written word becomes a communal event when someone voices it and others hear.
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.And he came to Nazareth, where he had been brought up: and, as his custom was, he went into the synagogue on the sabbath day, and stood up for to read.Blessed is he that readeth, and they that hear the words of this prophecy, and keep those things which are written therein: for the time is at hand.THE THREAD
So they read in the book in the law of God distinctly, and gave the sense, and caused them to understand the reading.The same Hebrew verb, קרא (qara), describes reading here and in Nehemiah: the text is voiced before listeners. Nehemiah shows what can follow that voicing, the people receive its sense, making audible reading a passage from written words into shared understanding.
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