What Does Jeremiah 6:22 Mean in the King James?
Thus saith the LORD, Behold, a people cometh from the north country, and a great nation shall be raised from the sides of the earth.
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 verb translated “raised” also means being roused awake: the nation is pictured as stirring into motion from the earth’s far edge.
THE MEANING
The warning names a people coming from the north and a great nation being roused from the earth’s farthest reaches. What seems remote is already moving toward the reader’s world.
THE ROOT
יֵעוֹר
yēʿōr
GROWS FROM
עור
ʿ-w-r
To wake, rouse, or stir from sleep or inactivity.
The verb carries the image of waking or stirring, so the nation is pictured as roused into action. “Raised” holds the sense of emergence alongside this awakening.
ALSO GROWS
ʿûr: Wake; rouse.
עוּר
This basic verb shows the movement from inactivity into alertness that shades the nation’s being raised.
hēʿîr: Awaken; stir up.
הֵעִיר
This causative form makes the root’s sense of stirring into action especially clear.
מִיַּרְכְּתֵי־אָרֶץ
miyyarketei ʾāreṣ
GROWS FROM
ירך
y-r-k
Thigh or flank; by extension, a side, rear part, or extremity.
“sides of the earth” in this verse is miyyarketei ʾāreṣ. The Hebrew image can suggest the earth’s flanks or remote recesses, giving “sides” a sense of farthest reaches. The nation’s source is beyond the near horizon, yet it is being roused toward arrival.
ALSO GROWS
yārēkh: Thigh; flank or side.
יָרֵךְ
The bodily flank makes the image of the earth’s sides concrete.
yarkāh: Remote side, extremity, or recess.
יַרְכָּה
This form connects the phrase to the earth’s distant outer reaches.
THE PATTERN
The warning names danger through its approach: a force is already moving toward the place it will strike.
Then the LORD said unto me, Out of the north an evil shall break forth upon all the inhabitants of the land.For, lo, I raise up the Chaldeans, that bitter and hasty nation, which shall march through the breadth of the land, to possess the dwellingplaces that are not theirs.And when ye shall see Jerusalem compassed with armies, then know that the desolation thereof is nigh.THE THREAD
Then the LORD said unto me, Out of the north an evil shall break forth upon all the inhabitants of the land.Both verses use צָפוֹן (ṣāfôn, north) to name the direction from which danger comes. Jeremiah 1:14 describes it breaking forth across the land, opening this verse’s distant source into an approaching force.
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