What Does Jeremiah 46:21 Mean in the King James?
Also her hired men are in the midst of her like fatted bullocks; for they also are turned back, and are fled away together: they did not stand, because the day of their calamity was come upon them, and the time of their visitation.
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 verse’s “visitation” is an appointed reckoning, the hour when a well-fed hired force reveals whether it can stand.
THE MEANING
Hired strength surrounds you and can look prepared, yet calamity turns it into a shared flight. The verse names the moment as an appointed visitation: what has gathered is brought into view, and what cannot stand is exposed. The day reveals the weakness already there.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
The lie undone is that visible resources and numbers guarantee steadiness when pressure arrives.
THE ROOT
פְּקֻדָּתָם
pequddatam
GROWS FROM
פקד
paqad
To attend to, take account of, muster, or appoint; here, an arriving visitation that brings a reckoning.
The word translated “visitation” shares its root with words for attending, mustering, appointing, and reckoning. Here, that appointed attention exposes the hired force’s limit: the strength gathered and fed turns and flees together.
ALSO GROWS
paqad: To attend to, visit, muster, appoint, or reckon.
פָּקַד
The root’s range makes the visitation an arrival of focused attention that brings what is gathered into account.
paqīd: An appointed official or overseer.
פָּקִיד
This branch carries the sense of an assigned charge, echoing the verse’s appointed time when the hired force is tested.
pequddah: An appointment, oversight, visitation, or reckoning.
פְּקֻדָּה
The verse uses this noun for the moment itself: the time arrives when the force’s apparent readiness is measured by whether it stands.
THE PATTERN
The appointed hour exposes whether apparent strength can endure.
There is no king saved by the multitude of an host: a mighty man is not delivered by much strength.Every man’s work shall be made manifest: for the day shall declare it, because it shall be revealed by fire; and the fire shall try every man’s work of what sort it is.THE THREAD
And the LORD visited Sarah as he had said, and the LORD did unto Sarah as he had spoken.The same root פקד (paqad, attend to or visit) appears in “visited Sarah.” Its range includes both the fulfillment of a spoken promise and the reckoning that arrives here, where the gathered force’s inability to stand is exposed.
Read the SDV Bible.
Every verse has a Deep Dive in the app.
The iPhone Bible app with the Selah Decoded Version.
Does something in this reading look wrong? Tell us