What Does Jeremiah 36:8 Mean in the King James?
And Baruch the son of Neriah did according to all that Jeremiah the prophet commanded him, reading in the book the words of the LORD in the LORD’s house.
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
Baruch’s voice carries the LORD’s words without becoming their source: faithful reading gives the written word a human voice.
THE MEANING
The words that reach you are not made true by the messenger who carries them; a human voice bears them into the place of encounter. Baruch’s name means “blessed,” and his act gives that name audible form as he reads the words of the LORD.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
The false belief is that the words lose their source when another person speaks them. Baruch reads what Jeremiah commands, yet they remain “the words of the LORD.”
THE ROOT
לִקְרֹא
liqro
GROWS FROM
קרא
Call, proclaim, or read aloud.
The Hebrew verb for reading also means calling or proclaiming: the written words are called into hearing. Its branches connect reading with public gathering, revealing that this act carries the text from the page into shared presence.
ALSO GROWS
qara: Call, proclaim, read aloud
קָרָא
The verse’s word for reading carries the sense of calling the LORD’s words into hearing.
miqra: Reading; assembly or convocation
מִקְרָא
This branch joins the act of reading with the gathering that receives the words.
בָּרוּךְ
barukh
GROWS FROM
ברך
Bless; the word family also holds the image of a knee bending.
Baruch’s name means “blessed,” and its root family includes the word for knee. The name places blessing beside his act of carrying the words: what is blessed becomes audible through his service.
ALSO GROWS
berakhah: Blessing
בְּרָכָה
This branch names the blessing carried in Baruch’s name.
berekh: Knee
בֶּרֶךְ
The bodily image of the bent knee gives the blessing root a posture of yielding.
THE PATTERN
A written word enters shared life when it is read aloud and received by hearers.
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 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 Hebrew verb for “read” here shares the root קרא (qara), “call or proclaim,” with Jeremiah 36:8. Nehemiah shows the same written word being called aloud and its sense made clear to those who hear.
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