What Does Jeremiah 6:14 Mean in the King James?
They have healed also the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace.
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
They speak the word “wholeness” over a fracture and call it healed while the fracture remains.
THE MEANING
A wound can be covered with reassuring words while it is still present. This verse reveals the distance between saying “peace” and living in wholeness. The repeated word does not make the condition whole.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
The lie that calling a wound healed is the same as its being healed.
THE ROOT
שָׁלוֹם
shalom
GROWS FROM
שׁלם
To be complete or whole; to bring something to completion or make it good.
“Peace, peace” invokes wholeness twice, yet the verse says wholeness is absent. The repeated name cannot substitute for the condition it names.
ALSO GROWS
shalem: Complete, whole, intact.
שָׁלֵם
It shows that peace names a condition of wholeness, not merely a soothing word.
shillem: Repay or make restitution.
שִׁלֵּם
The same root can describe making good what is owed or damaged, sharpening the contrast with a claim that leaves the fracture untouched.
שֶׁבֶר
shever
GROWS FROM
שׁבר
To break or shatter; a break, fracture, or ruin.
English “hurt” can sound slight, but shever names a break or fracture. The verse sets that actual break against words that claim wholeness.
ALSO GROWS
shavar: To break or shatter.
שָׁבַר
It makes the hurt in the verse a real break, not a discomfort that reassuring speech can erase.
shibber: To shatter or break apart.
שִׁבֵּר
The verb form keeps the force of damage visible beneath the claim of peace.
רָפָא
rapha
GROWS FROM
רפא
To heal or restore health.
“healed” in this verse is rapha. The verse does not deny healing; it exposes healing treated lightly while the fracture remains. Rapha (רָפָא, heal) echoes raphah (רָפָה, release, let the hands drop) in its opening consonants, joining healing and release by sound while retaining distinct roots.
ALSO GROWS
rofe: A healer or physician.
רֹפֵא
The branch names the one who heals, keeping healing tied to the work of restoration rather than a declaration.
refuah: Healing or medicine.
רְפוּאָה
It points to healing as restoration that reaches the wound itself.
THE PATTERN
A declaration of wholeness cannot repair a fracture it refuses to acknowledge.
For they have healed the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace.Because, even because they have seduced my people, saying, Peace; and there was no peace; and one built up a wall, and, lo, others daubed it with untempered morter:For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape.THE THREAD
I create the fruit of the lips; Peace, peace to him that is far off, and to him that is near, saith the LORD; and I will heal him.Isaiah joins the same “peace, peace” to the promise “I will heal him,” using the same roots for wholeness and healing. Jeremiah shows the words spoken where peace is absent; Isaiah connects them with healing that reaches the person.
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