What Does 1 Corinthians 2:10 Mean?
But God unveiled them to us through his breath, for the breath searches all things, even the depths of God.
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
But God hath revealed them unto us by his Spirit: for the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God.THE KEY
God’s depths become knowable to us through the Spirit that searches them and brings them into view.
THE MEANING
God makes what is hidden in God knowable to us through the Spirit. The Spirit searches all things, reaching even the depths of God.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
This undoes the belief that God’s deepest things are permanently inaccessible: the verse says the Spirit searches them and reveals them to us.
THE ROOT
ἀπεκάλυψεν
apekalypsen
GROWS FROM
καλυπ- (kalyp-, from καλύπτω)
Cover or conceal; with ἀπό, the verb pictures uncovering or disclosure.
“unveiled” in this verse is apekalypsen. The word pictures revelation as an uncovering: what is hidden is brought into view. The verse moves from the depths of God to what becomes knowable through the Spirit.
ALSO GROWS
apokalypsis: Revelation, disclosure, uncovering.
ἀποκάλυψις
It names the same movement from what is concealed to what is seen.
kalymma: Covering, veil.
κάλυμμα
The related word for a covering makes the image in “revealed” concrete: disclosure brings what is behind the covering into view.
πνεύματος
pneumatos
GROWS FROM
πνε- (pne-, from πνέω)
Breathe or blow; the word family carries breath, moving air, and spirit.
The Greek word belongs to the breathe-and-blow family, holding together what English can separate as spirit, wind, and breath. Here this living breath searches all things, even the depths of God.
ALSO GROWS
pneō: To breathe or blow.
πνέω
This verb shows the movement of air at the root of the word family used for Spirit.
pnoē: Breath or a blast of wind.
πνοή
This related word makes the breath-and-wind sense audible within the same Greek family.
THE PATTERN
What is hidden becomes visible through divine searching and disclosure.
He uncovers the depths out of darkness, and brings out to light the deepest darkness.But when he comes, the breath of truth, he will lead you along the way into all truth. For he will not speak from himself, but whatever he hears he will speak, and he will bring word back to you of the coming things.To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David. O LORD, you probe me, and you perceive me.THE THREAD
And the one who searches the hearts knows what is the setting of the breath, because it approaches on behalf of the set apart ones according to the will of God.The Greek verb translated “searcheth” comes from the same verb family as the Spirit “searcheth” in this verse. Romans turns the lens toward the heart: divine searching reaches what is hidden and knows the Spirit’s mind.
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