What Does 2 Corinthians 6:13 Mean?
Now, as a return in kind, I speak as to my children. Be you also widened.
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
Now for a recompence in the same, (I speak as unto my children,) be ye also enlarged.THE KEY
The return asked here is a matching enlargement: an open heart is answered by a heart made spacious too.
THE MEANING
You are addressed with the closeness of a child, and the return asked is equal openness. The same widened-heartedness offered to you becomes the space in which relationship can meet you.
THE ROOT
πλατύνθητε
platynthēte
GROWS FROM
πλατυ-
platy-
Broad, wide; having room to expand.
“widened” in this verse is platynthēte. The word translated “enlarged” comes from the idea of becoming broad or spacious. The same verb describes the heart as already enlarged in verse 11, so the requested return is a widening of the heart in kind.
ALSO GROWS
platys: Wide, broad.
πλατύς
This adjective carries the root’s sense of width as room, giving “enlarged” the feel of becoming more spacious.
plateia: A broad street or open way.
πλατεῖα
This related word makes breadth shared space: widening creates room through which others can pass.
THE PATTERN
When inward capacity widens, relationship, movement, and dwelling gain room to grow.
O Corinthians, our mouth is open toward you, our heart is widened.I run the way of your commands, when you widen my heart.Widen the place of your tent, and let the curtains of your dwellings stretch out. Do not hold back; lengthen your cords, and grip your pegs.THE THREAD
O Corinthians, our mouth is open toward you, our heart is widened.The verb translated “enlarged” in both verses is πλατύνω (platynō), meaning “to widen.” The open mouth and enlarged heart in verse 11 become the pattern for the matching response in verse 13: a heart made spacious in return.
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