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Jeremias 20:3

And when it was light the next day, Phassur brought Jeremias out of the stocks. And Jeremias said to him: The Lord hath not called thy name Phassur, but fear on every side.

Challoner: PhassurThis 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.

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The verse in its languages

Vulgate (Clementine): Cumque illuxisset in crastinum, eduxit Phassur Jeremiam de nervo, et dixit ad eum Jeremias : Non Phassur vocavit Dominus nomen tuum, sed Pavorem undique.
Septuagint (Swete): καὶ ἐξήγαγεν Πασχὼρ τὸν Ἰερεμίαν ἐκ τοῦ καταράκτου, καὶ εἶπεν αὐτῷ Ἰερεμίας Οὐχὶ Πασχὼρ ἐκάλεσεν Κύριος τὸ ὄνομά σου ἀλλ᾽ ἢ Μέτοικον.
Hebrew (WLC): וַֽיְהִי֙ מִֽמָּחֳרָ֔ת וַיֹּצֵ֥א פַשְׁח֛וּר אֶֽת יִרְמְיָ֖הוּ מִן הַמַּהְפָּ֑כֶת וַיֹּ֨אמֶר אֵלָ֜יו יִרְמְיָ֗הוּ לֹ֤א פַשְׁחוּר֙ קָרָ֤א יְהוָה֙ שְׁמֶ֔ךָ כִּ֖י אִם מָג֥וֹר מִסָּבִֽיב

Haydock's commentary

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)

From Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary, 1859, in the transcription made by Todd Easton and kept online by John Paul Wohlschied at johnblood.gitlab.io/haydock.