What Does Jeremiah 52:21 Mean in the King James?
And concerning the pillars, the height of one pillar was eighteen cubits; and a fillet of twelve cubits did compass it; and the thickness thereof was four fingers: it was hollow.
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
Even hollow, the pillar is named by its standing: the verse measures what holds its place from height to thickness.
THE MEANING
This verse makes a pillar’s form exact: eighteen cubits high, twelve cubits around, four fingers thick, and hollow. Its Hebrew name comes from the root for standing, so its inner cavity and supporting form belong to one description.
THE ROOT
עַמּוּד
ʿammūd
GROWS FROM
עמד
To stand, remain, or take a stand.
The English word “pillar” can sound like a static object, while עַמּוּד (ʿammūd, “pillar”) belongs to the root עמד (ʿ-m-d, “stand”). Here that standing form is specified by height, circuit, thickness, and hollow interior; the description includes what is inside the support as well as its outline.
ALSO GROWS
ʿāmad: To stand, remain.
עָמַד
The root verb makes the pillar’s name dynamic: it is a thing that stands in its place.
maʿămād: A standing place, station, or position.
מַעֲמָד
This derivative carries the same root into the place one occupies, illuminating the pillar as a positioned support within a larger structure.
THE PATTERN
A pillar marks support within a larger whole, whether that whole is the earth, a community, or a temple.
Which shaketh the earth out of her place, and the pillars thereof tremble.And when James, Cephas, and John, who seemed to be pillars, perceived the grace that was given unto me, they gave to me and Barnabas the right hands of fellowship; that we should go unto the heathen, and they unto the circumcision.Him that overcometh will I make a pillar in the temple of my God, and he shall go no more out: and I will write upon him the name of my God, and the name of the city of my God, which is new Jerusalem, which cometh down out of heaven from my God: and I will write upon him my new name.THE THREAD
For, behold, I have made thee this day a defenced city, and an iron pillar, and brasen walls against the whole land, against the kings of Judah, against the princes thereof, against the priests thereof, and against the people of the land.The same עַמּוּד (ʿammūd, “pillar”) names the addressed person as an iron pillar. Together, the verses use one word-family for a measured structure and for a person made to stand in place.
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