What Does Jeremiah 49:9 Mean in the King James?
If grapegatherers come to thee, would they not leave some gleaning grapes? if thieves by night, they will destroy till they have enough.
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 overlooked remainder is the boundary between ordinary loss and total stripping.
THE MEANING
You recognize ordinary taking by what it leaves: grape gatherers leave gleanings, and thieves stop when they have enough. Those leftovers mark a boundary around loss; destruction becomes total when even the expected remainder disappears.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
The belief that every loss is total: this verse distinguishes a taking that leaves a remnant from destruction that consumes even what should remain.
THE ROOT
יַשְׁאִירוּ
yash'iru
GROWS FROM
שאר
sha'ar
remain; be left over
English makes “leave” sound like the gatherers’ action, but שאר (sha’ar) names what remains. The verse makes that remnant the measure: even ordinary taking has a limit, and what is left can carry a future.
ALSO GROWS
she'erit: remnant
שְׁאֵרִית
This names what survives after a taking, the larger form of the few grapes left behind.
she'ar: remainder; rest
שְׁאָר
The same root names whatever is left, placing the remainder at the center of the verse.
THE PATTERN
What remains after a harvest or taking can become provision, survival, and continued life.
And thou shalt not glean thy vineyard, neither shalt thou gather every grape of thy vineyard; thou shalt leave them for the poor and stranger: I am the LORD your God.The remnant of Israel shall not do iniquity, nor speak lies; neither shall a deceitful tongue be found in their mouth: for they shall feed and lie down, and none shall make them afraid.Even so then at this present time also there is a remnant according to the election of grace.THE THREAD
And God sent me before you to preserve you a posterity in the earth, and to save your lives by a great deliverance.The Hebrew translated “posterity” is שְׁאֵרִית (she’erit), “remnant,” from the same root as “leave” here. What Jeremiah pictures as grapes left after a harvest, Genesis names as people preserved to carry life forward.
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