What Does John 14:1 Mean?
Let not your heart be stirred. You lean your full weight on God; lean your full weight on me also.
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
Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me.THE KEY
The same Greek word is first heard as “ye believe” and then as “believe also”: trust in God extends to Jesus.
THE MEANING
Your unsettled heart is addressed in the present, with trust named alongside the disturbance. The same Greek form of “believe” appears twice: first as “ye believe,” then as “believe also,” linking trust in God with trust in Jesus. Here, believing is reliance, weight placed on the one trusted, not bare agreement.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
It undoes the idea that a troubled heart proves trust is absent: the verse speaks to a heart in disturbance while also naming trust.
THE ROOT
πιστεύετε
pisteuete
GROWS FROM
πιστ-
pist-
Trust, rely on, entrust.
“lean your full weight on God” in this verse is pisteuete. The same form πιστεύετε appears twice; it can be read as either “you trust” or “trust,” and the KJV presents the first as existing trust and the second as its extension to Jesus. The word carries reliance, placing your weight on someone, not merely assent to an idea.
ALSO GROWS
pistis: trust, reliance
πίστις
This noun names the reliance the verse directs toward God and Jesus.
pistos: firm, trustworthy
πιστός
The related word describes the reliability on which trust can rest.
ταρασσέσθω
tarassesthō
GROWS FROM
ταρασσ-
tarass-
To stir, agitate, unsettle.
“be stirred” in this verse is tarassesthō. The verb carries motion: the heart is being stirred, rather than simply possessing a fixed identity called “troubled.” The same root can name inward agitation and outward tumult, describing disturbance without making it a verdict about the person.
ALSO GROWS
tarassō: to stir, agitate
ταράσσω
This is the verb’s lexical form; here it describes the heart being unsettled.
tarachos: turmoil, disturbance
τάραχος
Acts 19:23 uses this related noun for a public disturbance, showing the root can describe unrest within a person or among many.
THE PATTERN
Trust steadies the heart by placing its weight on the one it relies on.
He does not fear evil report; his heart is set firm, leaning his weight on the LORD.You will keep in wholeness upon wholeness the one whose shaped mind rests upon you, for in you he leans his full weight.throwing all your divided care upon him, for you matter to him.THE THREAD
Wholeness I leave with you; my wholeness I give to you. Not as the world gives do I give to you. Do not let your heart be stirred, and do not let it shrink.The same Greek verb for “troubled” returns here, paired with “afraid.” The verse names the peace Jesus gives alongside the very agitation addressed in John 14:1, opening trust as reliance amid a still-stirred heart.
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