What Does Jeremiah 49:32 Mean in the King James?
And their camels shall be a booty, and the multitude of their cattle a spoil: and I will scatter into all winds them that are in the utmost corners; and I will bring their calamity from all sides thereof, saith the LORD.
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 wind becomes the force that strips away both their possessions and their place among the nations.
THE MEANING
Here, camels and herds become plunder while people are scattered into every wind; calamity closes in from every side under the LORD’s word. The verse presents abundance and remoteness as no shelter from that dispersal.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
The lie this undoes is that abundance and distance guarantee safety.
THE ROOT
וְזֵרִתִים
wəzērîtîm
GROWS FROM
זרה
z-r-h
To scatter or winnow.
The root behind “scatter” also names winnowing and its tool. The wind is more than a map of dispersal: it is the separating force that drives what it catches outward.
ALSO GROWS
zārâ: To scatter or winnow.
זָרָה
This verb makes the scattering carry the sense of separation by dispersal.
mizreh: A winnowing fork or fan.
מִזְרֶה
The tool branch sharpens the image of a force that separates and sends its contents away.
רוּחַ
ruach
GROWS FROM
רוח
r-w-ḥ
Breath or moving air; wind.
Ruach is the word rendered “winds”; it also means breath, the same moving air at the scale of a body. “All winds” reaches every current and direction, making the dispersal comprehensive.
ALSO GROWS
ruach: Breath or wind.
רוּחַ
One word holds the breath moving through a body and the wind moving across the land.
ruḥot: Winds or breaths.
רוּחוֹת
The plural carries that same word across multiple currents, echoing the verse’s reach in every direction.
THE PATTERN
Winds mark movement beyond human control, carrying the scattered away or gathering the far-flung in.
The ungodly are not so: but are like the chaff which the wind driveth away.Ho, ho, come forth, and flee from the land of the north, saith the LORD: for I have spread you abroad as the four winds of the heaven, saith the LORD.And he shall send his angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.THE THREAD
And I will fan them with a fan in the gates of the land; I will bereave them of children, I will destroy my people, since they return not from their ways.The Hebrew verb translated “fan” and the noun “fan” share the root זרה with “scatter” here: to winnow is to drive grain apart in the wind. That root makes “into all winds” feel like exposure to the winnowing force itself, with no edge left sheltered.
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