What Does 1 Corinthians 10:26 Mean?
For the earth is the Lord's, and what fills it.
Key words are shown with the Hebrew or Greek and what each word meant.
Selah Decoded Version The Selah Decoded Version renders what the Hebrew and Greek words meant to the people who first heard them.
King James wording
King James Version
For the earth is the Lord’s, and the fulness thereof.THE KEY
“The fulness” means everything that fills the earth, so nothing in creation sits outside the Lord’s claim.
THE MEANING
The earth around you and everything that fills it belong to the Lord. Even what reaches the table is within that claim, part of a world held by him.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
This undoes the belief that the created world is divided between what belongs to the Lord and what does not.
THE ROOT
πλήρωμα
plērōma
GROWS FROM
πληρ-
plēr-
Fill; make full.
“what fills it” in this verse is plērōma. πλήρωμα names what fills the earth, not an abstract abundance apart from it. Its word family holds the act of filling and the state of being full together, gathering the earth’s contents into the same claim: the Lord’s.
ALSO GROWS
plēroō: To fill; to make full.
πληρόω
The verb keeps the action of filling beside the “fulness” that names what fills the earth.
plērēs: Full; filled.
πλήρης
This branch describes the state of being full, linking the earth’s contents to the same root as its fullness.
THE PATTERN
The Creator’s claim includes the world’s abundance, which arrives as provision to be received with thanks.
Yet he did not leave himself without witness, doing good, giving you rain from heaven and seasons that bear fruit, filling your hearts with food and gladness.For everything God created is good, and nothing is to be thrown away when it is taken with thanksgiving.THE THREAD
A Psalm of David. The earth is the LORD's, and what fills it; the inhabited world, and those who settle in it.The same claim appears here: the earth and everything that fills it belong to the Lord. The Hebrew מְלוֹאָהּ (melo’ah), “its fullness,” likewise gathers what fills the earth into one phrase.
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