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George Haydock's Catholic Commentary

Jeremiah 20:3

Phassur. This name signifies, increase and principality; and therefore is here changed to Magor-Missabib, or "fear on every side," to denote the evils that should come upon him in punishment of his opposing the word of God. (Challoner) --- Aquila renders Posseur, "a stranger," and St. Jerome, "blackness of visage." (Haydock) --- It may also mean, "one who causes paleness." (Calmet) --- Mogur may signify "fear or distress." Septuagint and Syriac, "an exile." (Haydock) --- He deserved to be thus treated, ver. 6. (Calmet) --- He would be terrified by many enemies. (Worthington)

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See also Jeremiah 20:3 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Jeremiah 20:3. _THE LORD HATH NOT CALLED THY NAME PASHUR_] Security on all sides. This name thou hast had, but not by Divine appointment. _But Magor-missabib _- Fear on every side. This name ha...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    MAGOR-MISSABIB - See Jeremiah 6:25 note. Jeremiah uses it no less than five times, having probably adopted it as his watchword from Psalms 31:13....

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    CHAPTER 20 Pashur.-Jeremiah's Perplexity and Complaint _ 1. Pashur and Jeremiah (Jeremiah 20:1) _ 2. Jeremiah's great perplexity and complaint (Jeremiah 20:7) Jeremiah 20:1. A great scene now

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    JEREMIAH 19:1 TO JEREMIAH 20:6. THE EARTHENWARE FLASK; JEREMIAH IN THE STOCKS. This section seems to be editorially grouped with the last because of the further reference to pottery; the original prop...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    NOT CALLED THY NAME PASHUR. _Pashhur_ is the foreign Aramaic name, given by his parents. Jeremiah takes this Aramaic name and interprets it in Hebrew (as Isaiah had done in Jeremiah 8:1; Jeremiah 8:3)...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _Magor-missabib_ meaning, _terror on every side_. The LXX wrongly render, _foreigner_, obtaining this sense from the fact that the Hebrew roots for _terror_and _sojourn in a foreign country_are identi...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    MAGOR-MISSABIB— That is, _Terror to all around,_ as the name is explained, according to the usual method in the next verse....

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    C. The Arrest of the Prophet Jeremiah 19:14 to Jeremiah 20:6 TRANSLATION (14) And Jeremiah went from Topheth where the LORD had sent him to prophesy and he stood in the court of the house of the LORD...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    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. PASHUR - compounde...

  • Darby's translation notes (1890)

    20:3 Magor-missabib. (a-31) Meaning, 'Terror on every side,' as ver. 10; chs. 6.25; 46.5; 49.29; Psalms 31:13 ; and Lamentations 2:22 ....

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    1-6. Pashur's act and Jeremiah's reply....

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    MAGORMISSABIB] i.e. 'fear is on every side': see on Jeremiah 6:25. The name is symbolic of his coming fate, consisting in part, at least, of remorse at the ruin which he had brought upon his country b...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    MAGOR-MISSABIB. — The words are a quotation from Psalms 31:13, and are rightly rendered, “Fear is round about;” they had already been used by the prophet in Jeremiah 6:25. We may venture to think that...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וַֽ יְהִי֙ מִֽ מָּחֳרָ֔ת וַ יֹּצֵ֥א פַשְׁח֛וּ

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    CHAPTER XIII JEREMIAH UNDER PERSECUTION Jeremiah 20:1 THE prophet has now to endure something more than a scornful rejection of his message. "And Pashchur ben Immer the priest" (he was chief officer...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    The story of the persecution which this action stirred up against him follows. Pashur heard the prophecy, and, smiting the prophet, arrested and imprisoned him. On the following day Jeremiah, being br...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    Observe, what holy and becoming boldness in the man of God. Observe what an awful judgment Pashur is doomed to suffer. Magor-missabib, means, being encompassed with fear round about, as a girdle. It i...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    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 defen...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

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  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    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...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    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. Ver. 3. _Pashur brou...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _Jeremiah said, The Lord hath not called_ Rather, _doth not call thy name Pashur; but Magor-missabib_ That is, _Terror on every side_, or, _Terror to all around_, as the name is explained in the next...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    V. 1. NOW, PASHUR, THE SON OF IMMER, THE PRIEST, WHO WAS ALSO CHIEF GOVERNOR IN THE HOUSE OF THE LORD, the highest commander of the Temple-watch, who was superior even to the captains of the individua...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    And it came to pass on the morrow, after Jeremiah had been kept in this crooked posture over night and suffered all its tortures, THAT PASHUR BROUGHT FORTH JEREMIAH OUT OF THE STOCKS. THEN SAID JEREMI...

  • Marginal Notes in the King James Version (1611)

    MAGORMISSABIB: That is, fear round about...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    1-6 Pashur smote Jeremiah, and put him in the stocks. Jeremiah was silent till God put a word into his mouth. To confirm this, Pashur has a name given him, "Fear on every side." It speaks a man not o...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    Possibly by this time the mad-brained priest thought he had done more than he could justify by law, for if he were a false prophet, the judgment of him belonged not to him, but to the sanhedrim; he ha...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Jeremiah 20:3 day H4283 Pashhur H6583 brought H3318 (H8686) Jeremiah H3414 stocks H4115 Jeremiah H3414 said H559 ...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    JEREMIAH'S ACTIONS PRODUCE A VIOLENT RESPONSE FROM THE RELIGIOUS AUTHORITIES, RESULTING IN JEREMIAH PROPHESYING WHAT WOULD HAPPEN TO HIS ADVERSARIES BECAUSE OF THEIR BEHAVIOUR (JEREMIAH 20:1). The res...

  • Scofield's Bible Commentary

    MAGORMISSABIB That is, Terror on every side....

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Jeremiah's first persecution. His complaint to God and encouragement in God. CHARACTERS: God, Pashur, Jeremiah, Nebuchadnezzar. CONCLUSION: Those who declare the whole counsel of God may ex...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Jeremiah 20:3. _The Lord hath not called thy name Pashur,_ which signifies security or increase; _but Magormissabib,_ a terror on every side, or terrors of a captivity. Pashur believed the prophet, ye...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    JEREMIAH—NOTE ON JEREMIAH 20:3 NOT... PASHHUR, BUT TERROR ON EVERY SIDE. Pashhur may mean “tear off.” The idea is that God has previously “torn off” pieces of Judah and given them to invaders. Now he...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES.—1. CHRONOLOGY OF THE CHAPTER. With chap. 20 the first section of this book closes. Probably this was Jeremiah’s last public prophecy in Jehoiakim’s reign, and formed the...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION JEREMIAH 20:1 The continuation of the preceding narrative. PASHUR THE SON OF TRAINER. This man belonged to the sixteenth of the sacerdotal families or classes (1 Chronicles 24:14). Another...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    Now Pashur (Jeremiah 20:1). And the name means "prosperity all around." Now Pashur the son of Immer the priest, who was also chief governor in the house of the LORD, heard that Jeremiah had prophesie...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    Acts 16:30; Acts 16:35; Acts 4:5; Genesis 17:15; Genesis 17:5;...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Not called — God's meaning was, not that he should by men be no longer called Pashur, but that his condition should not answer that name Pashur, which signifies, a flourishing priest; but Magor — miss...

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