What Does Jeremiah 44:28 Mean in the King James?
Yet a small number that escape the sword shall return out of the land of Egypt into the land of Judah, and all the remnant of Judah, that are gone into the land of Egypt to sojourn there, shall know whose words shall stand, mine, or theirs.
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
A word’s authority is revealed by whether it can stand when its promised outcome arrives.
THE MEANING
A few escape the sword and return from Mitzrayim (מִצְרַיִם, Mitzrayim: the two narrows) to Judah; the movement out of constriction is real, and so is the violence that leaves so few. The verse sets you before competing words: what stands is disclosed by what happens when their claims meet their consequences. The question of whose word holds reaches you now wherever promises compete.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
This undoes the belief that choosing the promise that feels safer makes it the one that will stand.
THE ROOT
יָקוּמוּ
yāqûmû
GROWS FROM
קום
qûm
Rise, stand, or be established.
“stand” in this verse is yāqûmû. The question is not merely which speaker wins an argument, but whose words remain standing as events unfold. The root makes endurance visible through what actually comes to pass.
ALSO GROWS
heqim: Establish, set up, cause to stand.
הֵקִים
This causative form links standing with being established; the verse asks whose words become established.
maqom: Place, location.
מָקוֹם
This noun is formed from the same root, connecting standing with the place where something holds.
דִּבְרֵי
divrei
GROWS FROM
דבר
dāvar
Speak; word, matter, or affair.
Davar can name both a spoken word and a matter or affair. The competing words here are claims whose reality becomes visible in what follows.
ALSO GROWS
dāvar: Word, matter, or affair.
דָּבָר
The noun holds speech and the matter being spoken about together, so the words are weighed by their outcome.
dibbēr: Speak, utter.
דִּבֵּר
This verb is from the same root, connecting the spoken claim with the matter that stands or falls.
וְיָדְעוּ
weyādeʿû
GROWS FROM
ידע
Know, recognize, perceive through encounter.
The survivors know whose words stand through what they experience, not through detached information. The verse joins recognition to the consequences that reveal which claim holds.
ALSO GROWS
yādaʿ: Know, recognize.
יָדַע
This is the same verb in its base form; here recognition follows the words’ outcome.
daʿat: Knowledge, understanding.
דַּעַת
This noun from the same root points to knowledge shaped by what is encountered.
THE PATTERN
Competing claims are disclosed by what remains standing when their consequences arrive.
There are many devices in a man’s heart; nevertheless the counsel of the LORD, that shall stand.The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: but the word of our God shall stand for ever.Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away.THE THREAD
The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: but the word of our God shall stand for ever.Jeremiah uses קום (qûm, rise or stand) for the words that “shall stand”; Isaiah uses that same root for God’s word. The grass and flower fade, while the word remains standing.
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