What Does Jeremiah 39:13 Mean in the King James?
So Nebuzar-adan the captain of the guard sent, and Nebushasban, Rab-saris, and Nergal-sharezer, Rab-mag, and all the king of Babylon’s princes;
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 list of Babylonian titles turns on one verb: power becomes visible when it sends people into motion.
THE MEANING
You see authority moving through a chain of named people: one commander sends, and a whole court enters the action. The list makes power concrete as people carrying its orders.
THE ROOT
וַיִּשְׁלַח
wayyišlaḥ
GROWS FROM
שלח
To send forth, stretch out, or let go; by extension, release.
English makes “sent” sound like a one-way dispatch, but שלח holds sending forth and releasing in one motion. The next verse repeats this root as the officials send and take Jeremiah out of prison, carrying the action toward release.
ALSO GROWS
shilluaḥ: Sending away; release.
שִׁלּוּחַ
This branch makes the releasing sense inside “sent” visible: what is sent away is let go.
shulchan: Table; provision set out.
שֻׁלְחָן
The table carries the root’s outward motion into provision extended to others.
Shiloach: Sent forth; the name of a watercourse.
שִׁלֹחַ
The same root names sent waters associated with restoration, extending the motion of release beyond this scene.
THE PATTERN
A sending carries the sender’s authority into the world through the people sent.
Now therefore be not grieved, nor angry with yourselves, that ye sold me hither: for God did send me before you to preserve life.Come now therefore, and I will send thee unto Pharaoh, that thou mayest bring forth my people the children of Israel out of Egypt.Then said Jesus to them again, Peace be unto you: as my Father hath sent me, even so send I you.THE THREAD
Even they sent, and took Jeremiah out of the court of the prison, and committed him unto Gedaliah the son of Ahikam the son of Shaphan, that he should carry him home: so he dwelt among the people.The same Hebrew root, שלח (shalach, send forth or release), appears again as the officials send and take Jeremiah out of confinement. The repeated verb completes the movement in this list, from dispatch to release.
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