A scroll is the written object named in these accounts and visions; its authority depends on the message and speaker the passage identifies. Jeremiah is instructed to record the Lord's words, and Baruch reads them for the people.
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A scroll is the written object named in these accounts and visions; its authority depends on the message and speaker the passage identifies. Jeremiah is instructed to record the LORD's words, and Baruch reads them for the people.
The BSB source-word alignment has 21 aligned rows for this entry. Common renderings include scroll (9), the scroll (7), a scroll (2), from the scroll (1), in the scroll (1).
The source-word alignment first shows this entry at Psalms 40:7. Its strongest book concentrations include Jeremiah (14), Ezekiel (4), Zechariah (2), Psalms (1).
A scroll is the written object named in these accounts and visions; its authority depends on the message and speaker the passage identifies. Jeremiah is instructed to record the Lord's words, and Baruch reads them for the people. Jehoiakim cuts and burns the scroll, but another scroll is written with the prior words and additional material. Ezekiel receives a scroll within his prophetic commission and is told to eat it before speaking to Israel.
Psalm 40 places the speaker's willingness to do God's will alongside what is written in the scroll. These uses concern hearing, rejecting or receiving a stated message. The noun itself cannot certify every religious manuscript, give a modern writer prophetic authority, or turn eating a vision's scroll into a practice that readers must imitate.
Jeremiah's dictated, publicly read and burned document contrasts with Ezekiel's commissioning vision and Psalm 40's willing response. The scroll remains a medium whose message and authority require contextual identification.
“Take a scroll and write on it all the words I have spoken to you concerning Israel, Judah, and all the nations, from the day I first spoke to you during the reign of Josiah until today.
The Lord instructs Jeremiah to write the addressed words concerning Israel, Judah and the nations on a scroll.
So you are to go to the house of the Lord on a day of fasting, and in the hearing of the people you are to read the words of the Lord from the scroll you have written at my dictation. Read them in the hearing of all the people of Judah who are coming from their cities.
Baruch is directed to read the dictated scroll for the people gathered at the Lord's house.
And as soon as Jehudi had read three or four columns, Jehoiakim would cut them off with a scribe’s knife and throw them into the firepot, until the entire scroll had been consumed by the fire.
Jehoiakim cuts and burns the read columns rather than responding to the warning with fear.
Then Jeremiah took another scroll and gave it to the scribe Baruch son of Neriah, and at Jeremiah’s dictation he wrote on it all the words of the scroll that Jehoiakim king of Judah had burned in the fire. And many similar words were added to them.
Jeremiah dictates another scroll to Baruch, preserving the earlier words with additional similar words.
“Son of man,” He said to me, “eat and fill your stomach with this scroll I am giving you.” So I ate, and it was as sweet as honey in my mouth.
Ezekiel eats the scroll in his commissioning vision before being sent to speak to Israel.
Then I said, “Here I am, I have come—it is written about me in the scroll:
The speaker says he has come in accordance with what is written, immediately joined to delight in God's will.
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Hebrew word. a roll
a roll BDB: roll Usage: roll, volume.
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Jeremiah 36 is a history of a message carried through a document. The Lord gives the writing instruction; Jeremiah dictates; Baruch reads; officials hear; and Jehoiakim burns the columns. Destroying the object does not end the stated word, since another scroll preserves it and adds similar words. The account makes the response to the warning central, rather than assigning magic to the writing material.
Ezekiel's eaten scroll belongs to a particular commissioning vision, joining reception of the message with his task of speaking to Israel. Psalm 40 speaks of coming and delighting in God's will alongside the scroll's writing. Teaching can encourage careful hearing and faithful response while naming these differences. Neither a manuscript's format nor a claimed vision gives a present author exemption from source checking, accountable review or the responsibility to distinguish Scripture from personal composition.
Jer.36.6
The noun identifies a scroll or rolled written object, with its content established by context. Twenty-one directly tagged BSB tokens in nineteen verses remain separately stated from the retained canonical count of twenty-one; this noun is distinct from broader book or document vocabulary.
Hebrews 10:1-18 explicitly cites Psalm 40 in its argument about Christ's coming, obedience and once-for-all offering. Preserve the wording Hebrews presents, including the prepared body, rather than silently rewriting the local Psalm's opened ears; the argument concerns Christ's stated work, not the noun's inherent power.