What Does Jeremiah 51:60 Mean in the King James?

So Jeremiah wrote in a book all the evil that should come upon Babylon, even all these words that are written against Babylon.

Jeremiah 51:60 · KJV

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King James Version The King James Version, first published in 1611. Selah Verse shows the standard text.

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THE KEY

The coming harm is not left as an unnamed threat: it is written as a complete account, held together in one book.

THE MEANING

You meet the coming harm stated without blur: all the evil and all the words concerning Babylon are held in one book. The page gives the coming judgment a complete, readable shape; the verse keeps both its force and its target explicit.

THE ROOT

וַיִּכְתֹּב

wayyikhtov

GROWS FROM

כתב

To write or inscribe.

“wrote” in this verse is wayyikhtov. Jeremiah’s act of writing and the words being “written” against Babylon share the same root: the writer’s action and the message’s fixed state belong to one word family. The verse presents the coming harm not as an unshaped threat but as a text already held in readable form.

ALSO GROWS

kātûv: written

כָּתוּב

The verse uses this same root again for the words recorded against Babylon, joining the act of writing to its result.

ketav: writing, script

כְּתָב

This branch shows the written form that gives the coming words a lasting, visible shape.

הַדְּבָרִים

haddevarim

GROWS FROM

דבר

To speak; the noun can mean a word, matter, or thing.

Here “words” is ⁨דבר⁩, whose noun form can also mean a matter or thing, while its verbal branch means to speak. The verse holds language and its subject together: Babylon’s coming fate is both spoken content and the matter being recorded.

ALSO GROWS

dāḇār: word, matter, thing

דָּבָר

The branch joins what is said to the matter itself, giving the recorded words concrete weight.

dibbēr: spoke, uttered

דִּבֵּר

The spoken branch connects the written account to words first carried in speech.

סֵפֶר

sēfer

GROWS FROM

ספר

To count, recount, or relate.

The consonants ⁨ספר⁩ bind the book to counting and recounting. “One book” gathers the whole account into a form that can be read again rather than leaving its words scattered.

ALSO GROWS

sāfar: counted, numbered

סָפַר

This branch gives the book’s root a sense of gathered completeness: the account is counted through.

sippēr: recounted, told

סִפֵּר

This branch connects the book to telling the account again in words.

THE PATTERN

A message that must be witnessed is fixed in writing so it can be read and carried onward.

Thus speaketh the LORD God of Israel, saying, Write thee all the words that I have spoken unto thee in a book.

Jeremiah 30:2 · KJVThe words spoken to Jeremiah become a written record, repeating the write-words-book structure.

And the LORD answered me, and said, Write the vision, and make it plain upon tables, that he may run that readeth it.

Habakkuk 2:2 · KJVThe vision is written plainly so the one who reads can carry its message.

Saying, I am Alpha and Omega, the first and the last: and, What thou seest, write in a book, and send it unto the seven churches which are in Asia; unto Ephesus, and unto Smyrna, and unto Pergamos, and unto Thyatira, and unto Sardis, and unto Philadelphia, and unto Laodicea.

Revelation 1:11 · KJVWhat is seen becomes a written message that can be sent beyond the one who receives it.

THE THREAD

Thus speaketh the LORD God of Israel, saying, Write thee all the words that I have spoken unto thee in a book.

Jeremiah 30:2 · KJV

Jeremiah 30:2 repeats the passage’s chain of roots: write (⁨כתב⁩), words (⁨דבר⁩), and book (⁨ספר⁩). One verse holds the words concerning Babylon in a book; the other likewise places all the spoken words into a book, making the Hebrew connection visible in the repeated structure.

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