What Does Jeremiah 41:12 Mean in the King James?
Then they took all the men, and went to fight with Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, and found him by the great waters that are in Gibeon.
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 man they pursue bears a name meaning “God hears,” and they find him beside great waters.
THE MEANING
You see a whole company move to confront Ishmael and find him at Gibeon’s great waters. His name means “God hears,” so the verse holds hearing, pursuit, and water together without saying the violence has ended.
THE ROOT
יִשְׁמָעֵאל
Yishmaʿel
GROWS FROM
שׁמע
Hear, listen.
In English, Ishmael arrives only as the pursued man’s name. In Hebrew, Yishmaʿel means “God hears,” built from שׁמע (shamaʿ, hear); the name carries hearing into a scene of pursuit.
ALSO GROWS
shamaʿ: Hear or listen.
שָׁמַע
This verb is built into Yishmaʿel, giving the name its sense, “God hears.”
shemuʿah: Report, tidings; something heard.
שְׁמוּעָה
The same root carries hearing into what is heard and passed on, showing how the name holds the act of hearing within it.
THE PATTERN
Pursuit concentrates conflict at a named place where the pursued comes within reach.
But the Egyptians pursued after them, all the horses and chariots of Pharaoh, and his horsemen, and his army, and overtook them encamping by the sea, beside Pi-hahiroth, before Baal-zephon.And Saul went on this side of the mountain, and David and his men on that side of the mountain: and David made haste to get away for fear of Saul; for Saul and his men compassed David and his men round about to take them.When Jesus had spoken these words, he went forth with his disciples over the brook Cedron, where was a garden, into the which he entered, and his disciples. And Judas also, which betrayed him, knew the place: for Jesus ofttimes resorted thither with his disciples. Judas then, having received a band of men and officers from the chief priests and Pharisees, cometh thither with lanterns and torches and weapons.THE THREAD
And the angel of the LORD said unto her, Behold, thou art with child, and shalt bear a son, and shalt call his name Ishmael; because the LORD hath heard thy affliction.The name Ishmael carries the sense “God hears,” and Genesis 16:11 makes that naming sense explicit: the LORD hath heard her affliction. The same Hebrew root, שׁמע (shamaʿ, hear), connects the name to the verse’s words about hearing.
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