Jeremiah 20:3 — meaning, Hebrew and Greek word study, commentary
Jeremiah 20:3
And it came to pass on the morrow, that Pashur brought forth Jeremiah out of the stocks. Then said Jeremiah unto him, The LORD hath not called thy name Pashur, but Magormissabib.
the morrow or (adverbially) tomorrow · preposition + noun, common feminine singular absolute
Pashur
פַשְׁח֛וּרfash.Chur
H6583
Pashchur · proper noun, a man's name
forth
וַיֹּצֵ֥אvai.yo.Tze'
H3318
to go (causatively · conjunction + verb, hiphil sequential imperfect, 3rd person masculine singular
Jeremiah
יִרְמְיָ֖הוּyir.me.Ya.hu
H3414
Jirmejah · proper noun, a man's name
stocks
הַמַּהְפָּ֑כֶתha.mah.Pa.khet
H4115
a wrench · definite article + noun, common feminine singular absolute
said
וַיֹּ֨אמֶרvai.Yo.mer
H559
to say (used with great latitude) · conjunction + verb, qal sequential imperfect, 3rd person masculine singular
Jeremiah
יִרְמְיָ֗הוּyir.me.Ya.hu
H3414
Jirmejah · proper noun, a man's name
LORD
יְהוָה֙Yah.weh
H3068
Jehovah · proper noun, a title
called
קָרָ֤אka.Ra'
H7121
to call out to (i.e. properly · verb, qal perfect, 3rd person masculine singular
name
שְׁמֶ֔ךָshe.Me.kha
H8034
an appellation · noun, common masculine singular construct + pronominal suffix, 2nd person masculine singular
Pashur
פַשְׁחוּר֙fash.Chur
H6583
Pashchur · proper noun, a man's name
Magor-missabib
מָג֥וֹרma.Gor
H4036
Magor-mis-Sabib · noun, common both genders singular absolute
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Cross-references
Jeremiah 20:10 For I heard the defaming of many, fear on every side. Report, say they, and we will report it. All my familiars watched for my halting, sayi…
Psalms 31:13 For I have heard the slander of many: fear was on every side: while they took counsel together against me, they devised to take away my life…
Jeremiah 46:5 Wherefore have I seen them dismayed and turned away back? and their mighty ones are beaten down, and are fled apace, and look not back: for…
Lamentations 2:22 Thou hast called as in a solemn day my terrors round about, so that in the day of the LORD’s anger none escaped nor remained: those that I h…
Isaiah 8:3 And I went unto the prophetess; and she conceived, and bare a son. Then said the LORD to me, Call his name Maher-shalal-hash-baz.
Jeremiah 6:25 Go not forth into the field, nor walk by the way; for the sword of the enemy and fear is on every side.
Genesis 17:5 Neither shall thy name any more be called Abram, but thy name shall be Abraham; for a father of many nations have I made thee.
Genesis 17:15 And God said unto Abraham, As for Sarai thy wife, thou shalt not call her name Sarai, but Sarah shall her name be.
Cross-references from OpenBible.info (CC BY), in the lineage of the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (public domain).
Commentary
Matthew Henry on Jeremiah 20:1-6
Here is, I. Pashur's unjust displeasure against Jeremiah, and the fruits of that displeasure, Jer 20:1, Jer 20:2. This Pashur was a priest, and therefore, one would think, should have protected Jeremiah, who was of his own order, a priest too, and the more because he was a prophet of the Lord, whose interests the priests, his ministers, ought to consult. But this priest was a persecutor of him whom he should have patronized. He was the son of Immer; that is, he was of the sixteenth course of the priests, of which Immer, when these courses were first settled by David, was father (Ch1 24:14), as Zechariah was of the order of Abiah, Luk 1:5. Thus this Pashur is distinguished from another of the…
Pashur--compounded of two roots, meaning "largeness (and so 'security') on every side"; in antithesis to Magor-missabib, "terror round about" (Jer 20:10; Jer 6:25; Jer 46:5; Jer 49:29; Psa 31:13).
John Gill on Jeremiah 20:3
And it came to pass on the morrow,.... After the prophet was put into the stocks; so that he was there all night:
that Pashur brought forth Jeremiah out of the stocks; either to bring him before the priests, or the sanhedrim, to be examined; or in order to dismiss him, being either admonished by his friends, or convicted in his own conscience that he had done a wrong thing;
then said Jeremiah unto him; when he had brought him out, not being at all intimidated by him, and having a word from the Lord for him:
the Lord hath not called thy name Pashur; which, according to Jerom, signifies "blackness of mouth"; and, according to others, "diffusing paleness"; one that terrified others, and made…
Jeremiah 20:3
3. And it came to pass on the morrow, that Pashur brought forth Jeremiah out of the stocks. Then said Jeremiah unto him, The LORD hath not called thy name Pashur, but Magormissabib.
3. Et accidit postridie (die crastino) ut educeret Phassur Jeremiam e carcere; et dixit ei Jeremias, Non Phassur vocavit Jehova nomen tuum, sed potius terrorem undique.
No doubt Pashur called other priests to examine the case. It was, indeed, a specious pretense, for he seemed as though he did not wish to condemn the holy Prophet hastily, or without hearing his defense. But Jeremiah only says briefly that he was brought out of prison: we at the same time gather that he was not dismissed, for he w…
The Church Fathers
(Ver. 3.) And when it dawned on the next day, Phasur brought Jeremiah out of the stocks and Jeremiah said to him: The Lord did not call your name Phasur, but fear from all sides. And here both the name of the high priest and the type of torture are interpreted in the same way as before. However, the name of the high priest is changed, so that it may show the punishment of the future from the name. You will by no means have a blackened face and the unjust rule of power; but you will be led captive to Babylon, for this signifies fear from all sides or all around: that trembling and uncertain of your own safety, you look around here and there, and shrink back at the adversaries coming against you. For fear, which is written in Hebrew as Magur ((Al. Magor)), LXX and Theodotio μέτοικον, that is, a migrant, Aquila's second edition as a foreigner, the first as a watcher, Symmachus as taken away or gathered together.
"And it came to pass on the next day that Paschor brought Jeremiah out of the dungeon." O Lord Jesus, come again, make clear to me these things also, and to those who have come for the spiritual nourishment. How does he "on the next day" himself bring "Jeremiah out of the dungeon"? For as long as the present day stands (and today is all this present age), the sinner casts the prophet down into the dungeon; but if the present day cease and the morrow come, then, having repented, he brings him out of the dungeon. Then Jeremiah tells him what Paschor will suffer. What does he say to him? "The Lord did not call your name Paschor, but Exile. For thus says the Lord." This Paschor is going to be deported, according to the desert of his sins, to Babylon—not alone, but also with his friends. For he is handed over to Nabuchodonosor and departs into the Confusion (Sygchysis) and is punished for his sins, since "he cast the prophet into the dungeon." Who then are the friends of Paschor, whose name is that of Blackness (Melania) of the mouth? All those who have received his words, those who have been blackened together with his blackened mouth, those who have received doctrines of blackness. "And they shall fall by the sword of their enemies." Those set over the punishments—these are the ones who have the swords and make them fall; concerning whom the word prophesies and says: "and your eyes shall see." These things, he says, that are prophesied, "your eyes shall see." "And I will give you and all Judah into the hands of the king of Babylon." Whoever of Judah is caught being so much a sinner as to be worthy of the king of Babylon, of the Confusion, shall be handed over to him. And the king of Babylon takes those who sin. And the king of Babylon is, according to the history, Nabuchodonosor, but according to the anagogical sense, the evil one. And to him the sinner is handed over, since he is both things, both enemy and avenger. And that the sinner is handed over to him, let Paul teach you: in one place saying concerning Phygelus and Hermogenes, "whom I handed over to Satan, that they might be instructed not to blaspheme"; and in another place, concerning the man who had committed fornication: "when you are gathered together, and my spirit, with the power of the Lord Jesus, I have judged to hand over such a one to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit…
Dictionary and topics
Magor-missabib — Fear on every side, (Jer. 20:3), a symbolical name given to the priest Pashur, expressive of the fate announced by the prophet as about to come upon him. Pashur was to be carried to Babylon, and…
Magormissabib — (terror on every side), the name giver. by Jeremiah to Pashur the priest when he smote him and put him in the stocks for prophesying against the idolatry of Jerusalem. (Jeremiah 20:3)
Pashur — Release. (1.) The son of Immer (probably the same as Amariah, Neh. 10:3; 12:2), the head of one of the priestly courses, was “chief governor [Heb. paqid nagid, meaning “deputy governor”] of the…
Jeremiah · pri — pri
Magor-Missabib · A symboli — A symboli
Pashur · .Beats and impri — .Beats and impri
Dictionary: Easton's (1897) and Smith's (1863), public domain. Topics: Nave's Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey's Topical Textbook (1897), public domain. Both as parsed by NEUU (CC BY 4.0).
Magor Terror.
Not Passhur did the Lord call your name, etc. Your name was not called Pashhur except for this matter, that is to say: פָֹשַח ֹשָחוֹר, cut off and black like “a tree that was cut off (נִפְֹשַח)” (Shevi’ith 4:6, Orlah 1:5). Also (Lam. 3:11), “And He cut me off (וַיִפַֹשְחֵנִי).” And so he said to him, Not Pashhur did He call your name, for the expression of Pashhur means a great man and the son of nobles, Pashhur. ‘Pash’ denotes expansion and ‘hur’ nobility. But for this reason your name was called Pashhur, Pashah shahor. ‘Pashah’ means ‘cut off,’ and ‘shahor’ means ‘black.’ Another explanation. ‘Pashah sehor.’ Many will be around you to slay you. Now according to this explanat…