On the next day, Pashhur released Jeremiah out of the stocks. Then Jeremiah said to him, “The LORD has not called your name Pashhur, but Magormissabib.
ExplanationCommentary
Verse 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 Saint Jerome “blackness of visage.” Bible.—It may also mean, “one who causes paleness.” Calmet.—Mogur may signify “fear or distress.” Septuagint and Syr. “an exile.” Bible.—He deserved to be thus treated. verse 6. Calmet.—He would be terrified by many enemies. Worthington.
“Magormissabib” means “surrounded by terror”