What Does Jeremiah 4:15 Mean in the King James?
For a voice declareth from Dan, and publisheth affliction from mount Ephraim.
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 warning is already arriving as sound: the Hebrew says affliction is being made heard before it is fully in view.
THE MEANING
A warning takes shape for you before danger is fully seen; the announcement makes affliction hearable. Dan carries the name tied to judgment, while Ephraim carries the name tied to fruitfulness. The alarm reaches even the ground where things are growing.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
The lie that a threat is unreal until it reaches you is undone here: a voice can make affliction present before it arrives.
THE ROOT
מַשְׁמִיעַ
mashmia
GROWS FROM
שמע
sh-m-ʿ
Hear; in this causative form, make heard or announce.
The verb behind “publisheth” means to cause people to hear. The announcement does more than describe affliction: it makes the threat audible to its hearers.
ALSO GROWS
shema: Hear and respond.
שְׁמַע
This branch shows hearing as a response, not merely sound reaching an ear.
shemuah: Report, news, or tidings.
שְׁמוּעָה
The report shares the announcement’s hearing-root: news travels by being made heard.
דָּן
Dan
GROWS FROM
דין
d-y-n
Judge; contend or render judgment.
Dan’s name carries the nature of judging. The voice comes from a place whose name already sounds with judgment, before the verse names the affliction being announced.
ALSO GROWS
din: Judgment.
דִּין
This branch makes the judgment carried in Dan’s name audible in the verse’s opening source.
dayyan: Judge.
דַּיָּן
The judge is one who renders judgment; this branch opens the name’s connection to the voice coming from Dan.
אֶפְרַיִם
Efrayim
GROWS FROM
פרה
p-r-h
Bear fruit; become fruitful.
Ephraim’s name is tied to fruitfulness. Affliction is announced from Mount Ephraim, placing the warning in the midst of what is bearing fruit.
ALSO GROWS
parah: Bear fruit; be fruitful.
פָּרָה
This verb gives Ephraim its name-nature of fruitfulness.
peri: Fruit.
פְּרִי
The fruit is the visible branch of the same root, giving the announcement’s location a sense of what is growing.
THE PATTERN
Approaching trouble becomes present to others through a sound or report that makes it hearable.
If when he seeth the sword come upon the land, he blow the trumpet, and warn the people;And ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars: see that ye be not troubled: for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet.For if the trumpet give an uncertain sound, who shall prepare himself to the battle?THE THREAD
My bowels, my bowels! I am pained at my very heart; my heart maketh a noise in me; I cannot hold my peace, because thou hast heard, O my soul, the sound of the trumpet, the alarm of war.The same root ש־מ־ע (sh-m-ʿ, hear) that makes the announcement heard here appears as “thou hast heard”; the same word קול (qol, voice or sound) returns as the trumpet’s sound. The warning moves from being announced across the land to being registered within the hearer.
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