What Does Jeremiah 52:5 Mean in the King James?
So the city was besieged unto the eleventh year of king Zedekiah.
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 siege is not a passing blow but a condition that holds a whole city through time.
THE MEANING
When pressure closes around your world, this verse names it as something sustained, lasting through a whole span of time. It holds that enclosure beside the name Zedekiah, “YHWH is alignment”, without pretending the name makes the siege disappear.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
The lie that pressure is only a moment of impact dissolves here: the city remains enclosed year after year.
THE ROOT
מָצוֹר
matsor
GROWS FROM
צור
tsur
to press in, enclose, or lay siege
“besieged” in this verse is matsor. The Hebrew names the city’s condition as an enclosure formed by pressure. Its צ־ר sound also echoes צַר (tsar), “narrow,” revealing the constriction that English leaves implicit.
ALSO GROWS
tsur: to press in or lay siege
צוּר
The verb gives the siege an active force: pressure closes around the city.
matsor: siege; an enclosing pressure
מָצוֹר
The noun names the siege as the condition the city inhabits through the years.
צִדְקִיָּהוּ
Tsidqiyyahu
GROWS FROM
צדק
ts-d-q
alignment, rightness
“Zedekiah” in this verse is Tsidqiyyahu. The name carries the meaning “YHWH is alignment.” That name remains inside a sentence describing a city under prolonged siege; the verse holds both realities without resolving the tension.
ALSO GROWS
tsedeq: alignment, rightness
צֶדֶק
This is the core meaning carried in Zedekiah’s name.
tsedaqah: justice expressed as aligned action
צְדָקָה
This branch shows alignment as something that takes form in what is done.
THE PATTERN
Siege turns pressure into an enclosure that holds a place over time.
And the city was besieged unto the eleventh year of king Zedekiah.For the days shall come upon thee, that thine enemies shall cast a trench about thee, and compass thee round, and keep thee in on every side,THE THREAD
And lay siege against it, and build a fort against it, and cast a mount against it; set the camp also against it, and set battering rams against it round about.Ezekiel’s “lay siege” uses the same Hebrew root צור (tsur) carried by מָצוֹר (matsor) in Jeremiah. The shared root reveals siege as pressure applied by enclosing a place, here made visible in the structures built around it.
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