What Does 2 Peter 1:13 Mean?
And I count it right, while I am in this tent, to wake you through by reminding you.
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
Yea, I think it meet, as long as I am in this tabernacle, to stir you up by putting you in remembrance;THE KEY
A reminder does not add a truth; it wakes the truth already within reach.
THE MEANING
While you inhabit this body, reminders can keep what you already know awake in your attention. A truth does not have to arrive as new information to stir you; recalling it can renew its force in the present. The body is called a tent, a temporary dwelling in which this awakening happens.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
The lie that only new information can awaken you dissolves here: what you already know can still stir you.
THE ROOT
διεγείρειν
diegeirein from diegeirō
GROWS FROM
ἐγείρω
To wake, rouse, or raise up.
“wake you through” in this verse is diegeirein from diegeirō. The Greek verb carries the sense of waking fully, beyond a passing emotional stir. Its root also speaks of raising, so the reminder awakens what is already present into active attention.
ALSO GROWS
egeirō: Wake, rouse, or raise.
ἐγείρω
This base verb shows that the stirring is a waking into alertness, not merely an emotional reaction.
egersis: Rising or resurrection.
ἔγερσις
The same word family can name a rising from death, giving the verb a sense of movement into life; here it describes the mind being stirred awake.
ēgerthē: He was raised.
ἠγέρθη
This form uses the same root for being raised, underscoring the movement from stillness into activity.
ὑπομνήσει
hypomnēsei from hypomnēsis
GROWS FROM
μιμνήσκω
To remember, recall, or remind.
“reminding” in this verse is hypomnēsei from hypomnēsis. The Greek word names an active reminder, a bringing back to mind; it is not simply stored information. Paired with the verb for waking, it shows how what is already known returns to living attention.
ALSO GROWS
hypomimnēskō: Remind or bring to mind.
ὑπομιμνῄσκω
This related verb makes the active force of remembrance clear: something known is brought back into awareness.
mnēmoneuō: Remember or keep in mind.
μνημονεύω
This branch shows remembrance as continuing attention to what is recalled.
anamnēsis: Remembrance or recall.
ἀνάμνησις
This related noun names recollection itself, echoing the verse’s use of memory to renew attention.
THE PATTERN
Remembering wakes what has already been spoken or known into active attention in the present.
This second letter, beloved, I now write to you, and in both of which I rouse your clear minds by way of a reminder.But the One who comes alongside, the Set-Apart Breath, which the Father will send in my nature, that one will teach you all things and will remind you of all that I said to you.I remember your judgments from the ages, LORD, and I am comforted.THE THREAD
This second letter, beloved, I now write to you, and in both of which I rouse your clear minds by way of a reminder.This is the closest echo: the same verb διεγείρω (diegeirō, stir awake) and noun ὑπόμνησις (hypomnēsis, remembrance) appear together again. Their repetition makes the movement clear: remembrance stirs the mind awake.
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